You're listening to serious inquiries only. Oh, Hello and welcome to Serious Inquiries only. This is episode 94. I'm your host Thomas Smith. Well I didn't put this and bill that's going through there's well there's two there's one in the house

there's one developing in the Senate but the house bill the tax reform bill is going

to be voted on as early as as you're hearing this it It could be Thursday, could be later, but they suspect it might get a vote as early as Thursday.

So I think it's really important to talk about it, talk about what's going on.

I also want to take a look at the question of do we even

need a tax bill? Do we need a tax cut? And if so, who needs a tax cut? I've done some

research on some of the historical context around that

and I think it'll be interesting to take a look at

and ask the question, you know, what is the big problem right now

in terms of taxes? What is the big problem right now in terms of taxes what is the big problem in terms of

income inequality what do those claims look like what does the context look like and

I think it's I think it's going to reveal quite a bit about this tax bill.

So that's what I plan to do.

Gonna look at the bill,

gonna look at a few of the highlights,

there's a lot in it,

not obviously not gonna just read the whole thing,

but there's some highlights, some low lights,

and a bit of the historical context we find ourselves in.

So that's my plan.

Let's get to it. Right, so why do we need a tax cut? Why do Republicans want a tax cut?

Well, I thought we'd take it from the horse's mouth. That horse being Paul Ryan. He for now anyway

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