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The Tom Woods Show

Ep. 930 Bernie Sanders Isn't Curious About Why Some Places Are So Expensive

The Tom Woods Show

Tom Woods

Politics, Economics, Libertarian, Government, News

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2017

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Bernie Sanders is saying we need to increase the minimum wage because it's so hard for people earning the present minimum wage to find adequate housing. Now there are all kinds of problems with that, but I'm particularly interested in Bernie's complete lack of interest in why housing in some places might be so expensive.

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my link, Ron Paul homeschool.com. Hey everybody, Tom Woods here by myself today. I want to talk about

0:34.5

something Bernie Sanders said not long ago. I guess I thought I wouldn't

0:38.7

be saying those words anymore, but there he is, still talking, and here I am still talking.

0:45.1

And in particular, he, if you're on my email list, you knew this episode was coming. I was

0:49.8

griping about it the other day. He was making the observation that it's rather expensive to live

0:55.3

in a lot of American cities these days, or it's difficult for people who earn the minimum wage

1:01.9

to get by in the economy. And therefore, he draws the conclusion that we ought to pay them more.

1:10.4

We ought to increase the minimum wage.

1:12.4

That solves the problem.

1:14.2

So I thought I would talk about this a bit.

1:16.2

This got raised in my private Facebook group, which you can access via supporting listeners.com if you're interested in somebody posted this.

1:25.1

And a big discussion ensued with a lot of comments,

1:29.3

intelligent comments, in response to Bernie's view. So I thought I would review a couple of

1:36.3

those and then give my own thoughts about the matter. In particular, he's talking about housing

1:42.8

and how hard it is to find housing that's

1:45.7

affordable, particularly in certain cities. Now, these are cities, of course, where left liberals

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