Feeding Local Economies/Starving the IRS

Ralph Nader Radio Hour

Ralph Nader

Government, News

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🗓️ 21 August 2021

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

Ralph welcomes Stacy Mitchell, co-director of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance to talk about how enforcing anti-trust laws would lead to more decentralized and productive local economies. And Pro Publica’s Jesse Eisinger joins us to explain how Republican anti-tax groups have starved the IRS budget, which leads to billions of dollars of uncollected taxes from the wealthy. Plus, Ralph answers your questions.

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0:00.0	It's the Ralph Nader radio hour.
0:05.3	Stand up, stand up, you've been sitting way too long.
0:13.8	Welcome to the Ralph Nader radio hour.
0:15.3	My name is Steve Scroovan along with my co-host David Feldman.
0:18.3	Hello, David.
0:19.3	Good morning.
0:20.3	And we also have the man of the hour, Ralph Nader.
0:22.4	Hello, Ralph.
0:23.4	Hello.
0:24.7	In the first part of today's program,
0:26.4	we're going to talk about the state of small business in America.
0:29.8	Research has shown that between 2007 and 2017,
0:34.9	the number of small retailers fell by 65,000.
0:39.2	In 2018, more businesses closed and started in the US.
0:44.0	Communities across the country are losing their local retailers.
0:47.4	Consumers are becoming more reliant on large companies.
0:50.4	And small vendors are stuck selling on Amazon's own marketplace platform.
0:55.2	The mainstream narrative about the decline of small businesses
0:58.8	has been that larger corporations are more efficient,
1:01.4	offer lower prices, and simply outcompete smaller local companies.
1:06.6	Is that accurate?
1:08.4	Or could it be that our government has abandoned its anti-binopoly policies,
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