Ep. 79 Since Government Is Awesome, Where and Why Would You Cut the Budget?

Contra Krugman

Tom Woods

News, News & Politics, Business News

4.7 • 822 Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2017

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Conservatives suffer from the delusion that government spending is generally waste that doesn't do anyone any good, says Krugman. Now that they're in power, they're seeing how great and important government is, and how much voters love it. So where are their promised budget cuts going to come from?

Bob and Tom sort through it all!

Show notes for Ep. 79

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0:00.0	Contra Krugman, episode 79.
0:05.3	Welcome to the podcast that takes apart Paul Kruikman's New York Times column.
0:10.0	Join us as Tom Woods and Bob Murphy teach economics by uncovering and dissecting the
0:14.7	arrows of Kruikman.
0:15.9	Nobel Prize winner, newspaper columnist, and destroyer of nations.
0:19.9	It's time for Contra Krugman.
0:24.1	Folks, if you like this show, I guarantee you will enjoy my brand new free e-book,
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0:34.9	Grab your copy at Sainspacebook.com.
0:39.7	Hey, everyone. You know, at Contra Krugman, we don't have the time to get into the full
0:43.1	nuances of some of these issues about international trade and taxation. If you want to get
0:47.5	the full scoop, go to laura murphy.com. That's L-A-R-A-Hifon Murphy.com.
0:53.6	Hey, everybody, Tom and Bob here with another episode of Contra Krugman.
0:57.2	We're talking today about the March 17th, 2017 Krugman column called Conservative Fantasies Colliding
1:04.4	with Reality.
1:05.8	Because remember, only Krugman lives in reality.
1:09.3	So, Bob, how are things going? How's the, how the cruise bookings doing?
1:14.8	Well, since we're not in reality, I mean, we got like 872 people already signed up.
1:20.0	Yeah, exactly. Yeah, exactly. Oh, it's going to be, I think we're going to have to reserve the whole ship this time around.
1:25.8	Yeah, we've got, you two is coming, a special guest. And, uh, it's going to have to reserve the whole ship this time around. Yeah, we've got U2 is coming,
1:28.1	a special guest. And it's going to be fantastic. All right. And plus, Billy Joel is doing a stop
1:33.4	on his tour on the Contra Cruise. It's going to be fantastic. Chris Rock. Yeah, well, I told Chris
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