Tax time at the culture wars

Explain It to Me

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🗓️ 12 April 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Dylan Matthews and Dara Lind are joined by Washington Post reporter Toluse Olorunnipa (@ToluseO) to talk more taxes for our hot! tax! policy! episodes this month. Today’s topic: Sen. Rick Scott’s 11-point plan to rescue America. Dylan, Dara, and Tolu get into the specifics of Scott’s policy proposal and speculate if the culture wars have seeped into tax policy. Plus, a white paper about unemployment benefits and opioid overdose mortality rates. References: Preorder His Name Is George Floyd by Toluse Olorunnipa and Robert Samuels The Tax Policy Center’s analysis of the Rick Scott plan How many people don’t pay income tax? The original 47% remarks The folk Republican morality behind the plan White paper: “Unemployment Insurance and Opioid Overdose Mortality in the United States” Medicaid expansion reduced opioid deaths too The relationship between the economy and the opioid epidemic Hosts: Dylan Matthews (@dylanmatt), senior correspondent, Vox Dara Lind (@dlind), Weeds co-host, Vox Credits: Sofi LaLonde, producer and engineer Libby Nelson, editorial adviser Amber Hall, deputy editorial director of talk podcasts Sign up for The Weeds newsletter each Friday: vox.com/weedsletter Want to support The Weeds? Please consider making a donation to Vox: bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:13.2	Hello and welcome to another episode of The Weeds. I'm your host Dylan Matthews and
1:17.5	I am joined as usual by co-host Darryl Lind.
1:19.9	Hello.
1:20.9	And by our special guest panelists this week, Washington Post reporter, Tulu Oluhrinipa.
1:25.5	Great to be here.
1:27.7	And this week we're going to be talking about the Senate Republican tax plan. And if you
1:32.5	don't know about the Senate Republican tax plan, then Mitch McConnell is really happy
1:36.0	it hasn't made it to you. But Rick Scott, who is running Republican Senate campaign
1:40.8	efforts this year for the midterms and who came up with this tax plan, is really bummed
1:45.5	out. So this week we're all going to be talking about Rick Scott's plan.
1:49.8	We're doing Rick Scott a favor is what you're saying.
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