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Serious Inquiries Only

SIO229: Means Testing, #metoo, and Bernie Bros

Serious Inquiries Only

Thomas Smith

News, News Commentary, Politics

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2020

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

It's time for listener questions! It's been far too long so some of these are older, but they're very worthwhile to discuss still. First up, why do we prefer means testing for Yang's UBI but not free tuition to public universities? Then, was there no evidence that Dr. Ford ever met Kavanaugh? Should Franken be able to make a comeback? Why do daycare workers make so little? (insert heated debate about Bernie supporters...) Then finally, some questions about inner monologue!

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0:00.0

You're listening to serious inquiries only. I'm Thomas that's Jamie how you doing Jamie I am all right Thomas how are you doing great

0:40.1

Can't wait for the debate coming up. We are recording this, you know, few three hours before the debate. So as you're hearing this that's where we are. We're looking forward to it

0:49.6

And we're hoping to get you some amount of debate coverage for that if not a full episode.

0:55.6

We'll see how that goes.

0:57.5

Today we've got a bunch of questions pending that I think are going to be a lot of fun.

1:03.0

I'll be honest, millions of questions on inner monologue,

1:06.0

but also some other ones, little older ones that I think are good still that apply

1:10.0

to the Democratic primary and that kind of thing.

1:14.0

So lots of good questions we are going to tackle.

1:17.8

So what do you think, Jamie?

1:19.2

You want to give it a try?

1:21.0

Yeah, I'm super excited.

1:22.4

Let's go for it. Let's go to this question that now again,

1:26.2

Yang has dropped out. So this is related to UBI and I know it's it's old. I

1:30.9

should have I wish we'd have gotten to it sooner, but you know, it's we can't do a Q&A every episode. I try to only do it once a month or something, but I think it still applies because it's about

1:41.4

It's about means testing. It's something that will apply going forward to other policies

1:45.1

and also you know this yang is out but this won't be the end of UBI I'm sure we'll

1:49.1

see more on UBI going forward so I still want to answer this question from

1:52.1

Alexis who emailed and

1:53.9

asked when you covered Yang's UBI proposal you guys were pretty much or sorry

1:58.1

you were pretty outraged at the idea that the 1K a month would also go to the top 1% despite the fact that there might be even more

2:04.9

administrative overhead to do the means testing than you'd save.

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