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The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg

The Dispatch

Politics, News

4.7 • 6.6K Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2021

⏱️ ? minutes

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Summary

Dust off your calculators, because beloved economic policy wonk Brian Riedl is back on The Remnant to discuss everything you’ve ever wanted to know about the federal budget, spending, taxes, and deficits. He also touches on the right’s curious lurch toward industrial policy and common good capitalism, and why conservatives and progressives alike can’t resist the prospect of a free lunch. Is the Laffer Curve a force for evil? How progressive is the U.S. tax code? And why is Joe Biden so determined to outspend Mack the Knife? Show Notes: -Brian’s page at the Manhattan Institute -Brian’s previous Remnant appearance -Brian’s latest chart book -Simpson-Bowles and the art of budget negotiations -Brian in The Dispatch on taxing the rich -How does the U.S. tax code compare with other countries? -The great Nordic myth -Jack Kemp and tax reform -Al Gore and class warfare Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Oh
0:14.1	Ladies and gentlemen
0:16.4	Could I please have your attention
0:18.4	Thank you
0:27.4	Greetings dear listeners, this is Jonah Goldberg host of the Remnant Podcast brought to you by the dispatch and dispatch media
0:32.7	We are in year two of dispatch
0:36.7	stuff
0:37.9	Adventure
0:39.2	shenanigans and
0:41.2	I
0:43.2	Look very much forward to talking to you guys about your 10 that is of course if we don't have a massive debt crisis and
0:51.2	Drinking puddled water and fighting over the last rusty can goods left
0:56.4	um in our
0:58.4	depleted post-apocalyptic landscape
1:00.9	Which brings me to our guest today one of my favorite wank's
1:06.0	um and the in the most positive non-projorative sense of the word
1:11.7	um
1:12.7	Of known for a long time. He's an old hand and a fan favorite here and he is now
1:20.1	Senior scholar scholar and resident what's your title with them in hand and student
1:24.4	Senior fellow and leading nerd
1:26.8	There you go and that's to be a leading nerd at the Manhattan Institute and an organization run by rye hunts alum
1:32.8	The guy a greater proselytizer of board games in adulthood. I have never met is saying something
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