Mass Ave Episode 101 (Official Pilot)
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Heritage Podcast Network
4.7 • 847 Ratings
🗓️ 16 May 2017
⏱️ 16 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | And let the great debate begin. |
| 0:05.8 | Welcome to Mass Ave, conservative insight from the Heritage Foundation's Freedom Center, |
| 0:09.7 | just steps from Capitol Hill with Emily Vanderbush and Brad Bishop. |
| 0:13.9 | All right, and we are live here today. |
| 0:17.5 | It's been a busy week on Capitol Hill. |
| 0:20.0 | We had Congress moving on from Obamacare and looking to issues like tax reform. |
| 0:26.3 | Brad, what do you think? |
| 0:28.2 | I mean, it wasn't just on Capitol Hill. |
| 0:30.0 | We've had a busy day or a busy week in Washington with baseball season as well. |
| 0:33.7 | The Nats kicked off. |
| 0:35.0 | Cherry Blossoms are blooming. |
| 0:36.4 | But more importantly, yes, tax reform |
| 0:38.6 | looks like it is upon us. Yeah. Speaking of springtime, springtime and tax season, we have |
| 0:45.5 | Adam Michelle here to give us a scoop on tax reform. Brad and I honestly couldn't tell you too much |
| 0:52.2 | about it, but that's why we have an expert. |
| 0:59.1 | So, Adam, what would you say is the greatest problem with the current tax system? |
| 1:06.6 | Well, thank you for having me. Our tax system, as almost all Americans agree, as we're going into the season where you have to file your taxes, the tax code is incredibly broken and |
| 1:11.9 | overly complex. But the probably biggest issue is on our business tax code and the burden |
| 1:21.1 | that our businesses are under from federal taxes. We have probably the worst business tax |
| 1:27.3 | system in the world amongst all of our |
| 1:29.3 | competitors. Okay. And so looking to tax reform, if Congress were to lower these business taxes, |
| 1:37.4 | how would that impact the average American? That's a great question. So most people, |
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