Ranting About Scotch Tariffs! Featuring: Jeremey Kareken and Eric Boehm
The Political Orphanage
Andrew Heaton
4.9 • 1000 Ratings
🗓️ 9 October 2019
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
This month America's ridiculous trade policies are going to jack scotch prices up by 25%! Heaton calls in Reason's Eric Boehm and playwright/free market paladin Jeremey Kareken to sound the alarm over protectionism.
Season 2, Ep 14
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| 0:00.0 | Coming to you from the belly button of the United States, it's the political orphanage, a fun space to contemplate nuance. |
| 0:15.0 | I'm your host Andrew Heaton, and normally at this point I say something about how we don't |
| 0:19.2 | tend to shout on the program, but the administration just jacked up scotch prices so I will be shouting a lot |
| 0:26.3 | today. Effectively this is the Heaton and Friends get cranky about basic economics episode so brace yourself for a lot of |
| 0:35.2 | angry chatter about comparative advantage. I am so enraged by Scotch tariffs that I can't even express my anger in English. |
| 0:45.6 | So instead I'm going to do it in Scottish at the end of the program. |
| 0:49.6 | Fair warning, there will be a lot of swearing. Like your houseplants might catch fire. I |
| 0:55.1 | apologize about that but it's not my fault that 20% of the Scottish language is |
| 0:59.7 | cuss words. There's simply no way to construct a sentence in Scottish without using them. |
| 1:04.0 | The other big story on the news, besides Scotch tariffs, |
| 1:08.0 | is that Donald Trump is careening towards an impeachment hearing. |
| 1:12.0 | This is because in July, Trump asked the President of Ukraine to look into possible |
| 1:17.2 | Joe Biden corruption, and he may have withheld defense funding to incentivize Ukraine to dig up dirt on Trump's chief political rival. |
| 1:25.0 | Then Trump doubled down on the whole corruption thing. |
| 1:29.5 | He responded to criticism by openly asking for China to go ahead and dig up dirt on Joe Biden. So that's happening. |
| 1:36.2 | The President of the United States is openly soliciting the red Chinese to mess |
| 1:41.4 | around in our election, which is terrible because Russia already has |
| 1:47.7 | dibs and I believe in little thing called etiquette. China should have to wait in line just like everybody else. |
| 1:56.0 | And in the latest, Donald Trump has accused Nancy Pelosi and House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff of, quote, high crimes and misdemeanors and even |
| 2:04.4 | treason in response to their threats of impeaching him. |
| 2:08.6 | So things are heating up and I predict this is going to involve all of the class of the Clinton impeachment proceedings |
| 2:16.4 | only without any of the edifying sex ed. |
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