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The Politics Guys

PG124: (A Lot) About the GOP Tax Plan, Muller Indictments, Terrorism in NYC, and the Powell Nomination

The Politics Guys

Michael Baranowski

Politics, News

4.5772 Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2017

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

In this week's extended episode Trey and Mike start off by discussing the GOP Tax Plan. They begin by analyzing the content of the plan. As to the policy itself, Trey is optimistic, but worried about the $1.5 trillion debt increase. Mike sees both positive and negative aspects to the bill, but overall sees the plan as problematic. Then it's time to talk Mueller's indictments. Both Trey and Mike see this as the first step to a larger set of indictments and they agree that critics of the president ought to moderate their joy. It is unlikely that this will bring down the Trump presidency. Next is a discussion of the Halloween ISIS terrorist attack in NYC. Trey stresses that we shouldn't allow terrorist groups to wield fear to change us. He argues that while terrorist organizations are good at spreading fear, they aren't as effective at carrying out plots as the media narrative would suggest. Finally both Trey and Mike address Trump's nomination of "Jay" Powell to be the next chair of the Federal Reserve, breaking a recent precedent by former presidents. We hope you’ll consider visiting today’s sponsor: Blue Apron. Check out this week’s menu and get $30 off your first order – with free shipping – by going to http://www.blueapron.com/tpg Listener support helps make The Politics Guys possible. If you’re interested in supporting the show, go to http://www.politicsguys.com and click on the Patreon link.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-politics-guys/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

You know what that is.

0:04.0

An ice cold beer.

0:07.0

What's different?

0:09.0

It's Budweiser, a perfect beer for party season.

0:14.0

Best enjoyed with your best buds.

0:20.0

Cheers to that. Budweiser, like no way. Best enjoyed with your best butts.

0:22.6

Cheers to that. Budweiser, like no other.

0:25.6

Please drink responsibly.

0:26.6

For the facts, visit drinkaware.co.

0:28.6

com.

0:29.6

U.K. Welcome to the politics guys. I'm Michael Baranowski, a political scientist at Northern Kentucky University.

0:55.9

Welcome to the politics guys, the podcast where we look at the deeper side of politics.

1:00.5

I'm Trey Orndorff, and this week I'm joined by Michael Baranowski, who has an exciting new

1:05.2

project.

1:05.8

And in fact, it's so exciting.

1:06.8

I really wish I would have come up with it myself.

1:08.9

Michael, tell us a little bit about this new project.

1:11.5

Well, thanks, Trey. It certainly new. It's exciting to me. I hope it's exciting to listeners.

1:17.8

I am going to start a blog on the site where on every week I post what the latest on my research,

1:25.7

what I'm doing, and maybe some random things here and there

1:28.2

that I'm thinking. And the reason why I'm starting this has to do sort of with number one,

1:33.9

the fact that I'm on sabbatical. And number two, how academic publishing works. Now, Tray,

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