John Campbell on Conservative Myths About Tax Cuts for the Rich

The Politics Guys

Michael Baranowski

Politics, News

4.4 • 783 Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Mike talks with John L. Campbell, the Class of 1925 Professor and Professor of Sociology Emeritus at Dartmouth College. He’s the author of the recently released book, Pay Up! Conservative Myths About Tax Cuts for the Rich, which they discuss on this episode. Topics Mike & John cover include: the main conservative tax cut myths the Laffer Curve and “self-funding” tax cuts neoliberalism - intellectual movement or marketing strategy? when are tax rates too high? US taxes in international perspective government vs market inefficiency social programs and dependency The Politics Guys on Facebook | X Check out the excellent Sustainable Planet podcast. Listener support helps make The Politics Guys possible. You can support us or change your level of support at patreon.com/politicsguys or politicsguys.com/support. On Venmo, we’re @PoliticsGuys. The Politics Guys is part of The Democracy Group, a network of podcasts that examines what's broken in our democracy and how we can work together to fix it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:35.2	Love the government, hug the government, hug the government, love, the government, hug the government, love the government, hug the government, love the government, hug the government, hug the government. Welcome to the politics, guys, a place for bipartisan, rational, and civil debate on American politics and policy. I'm Northern Kentucky University political scientist Michael Baranowski. My guest today is John L. Campbell, the class of 1925 professor and professor of sociology
0:57.8	emeritus at Dartmouth College.
0:59.9	He's the author of the recent release book, Pay Up, Conservative Myths About Tax Cuts for the Rich,
1:05.1	which will be discussing today.
1:07.0	John Campbell, welcome to the show.
1:08.8	Thank you very much for having me.
1:11.2	I want to start with something at the very beginning.
1:13.5	You call conservative arguments for tax cuts a fraud perpetrated on the American public.
1:20.3	And I wanted to ask you about that because fraud, of course, is a loaded term.
1:24.5	It sort of goes to intent.
1:26.5	And so why fraud is opposed to saying something like,
1:29.4	well, it's an incorrect or mistaken economic philosophy? Good question. And in fact, this is
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