Joel Pollak’s Roadmap For Trump's First 100 Days
The Radio Free Hillsdale Hour
Hillsdale College
4.8 • 649 Ratings
🗓️ 13 September 2024
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Guests: Gary Wolfram, Joel Pollak, & Dutton Kearney
Host Scot Bertram talks with Gary Wolfram, the William Simon Professor of Economics and Public Policy, director of economics, and professor of political economy at Hillsdale College, about Kamala Harris’s proposed tax on unrealized capital gains. Joel Pollak, senior editor-at-large at Breitbart News, lays out his vision for a potential Trump presidency and discusses his new book The Agenda: What Trump Should Do in His First 100 Days. And Dutton Kearney, associate professor of English at Hillsdale College, concludes a series on James Joyce and the Modernist literary movement, finishing with a meditation on Ulysses and Finnegans Wake.
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| 0:00.0 | From the historic campus of Hillsdale College in Hillsdale, Michigan, |
| 0:10.8 | where the good, the true, and the beautiful are taught, nurtured, and honored, |
| 0:16.8 | this is the Radio Free Hillsdale Hour, bringing the activity and education of the college to listeners across the country. |
| 0:25.1 | Need immigration reform in this country, but first of all, we need border security before anybody achieves any kind of legal status who's here and doesn't have it yet. |
| 0:33.7 | We also need to understand that Americans who are here, who are citizens, have control over |
| 0:39.8 | who joins us as Americans. This is your host, Scott Bertram, and welcome to the radio-free |
| 0:45.8 | Hillsdale Hour, part of the Hillsdale College Podcast Network. That was Joel Pollack, author |
| 0:51.9 | of the recent book, The Agenda, What Trump Should Do in his first 100 days. |
| 0:57.8 | We'll talk with Joel in depth about that coming up later on in today's program. |
| 1:02.2 | First, we're joined by Dr. Gary Wolfram. |
| 1:04.8 | He is William Simon Professor of Economics and Public Policy, Director of Economics and Professor of Political Economy at Hillsdale College, |
| 1:13.5 | also the man with a giant business card. |
| 1:16.0 | Dr. Wolfram, thanks so much for joining us. |
| 1:18.1 | Well, thanks for having me again. |
| 1:19.5 | Talking today about the Kamara Harris Plan and one that has been floated by others as well, |
| 1:27.2 | taxing unrealized gains. |
| 1:30.2 | Explain to us this idea as proposed in the Harris Economic Plan. |
| 1:36.2 | Well, taxing unrealized capital gains is that when you have a, let's say, a stock or you have a business, what's going to happen is that |
| 1:46.3 | you're going to be taxed on these gains, and this is going to lead to all sorts of problems, |
| 1:52.1 | which we can talk about a little bit. But the way Camilla Harris has is that it's going to be |
| 1:59.6 | on people who have wealth above $100 million. |
| 2:03.8 | There's about 11,000 of those people. |
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