Taxes Rule!... Your Life w/ Scott Hodge #890
How to Money
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🗓️ 9 October 2024
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
The reason there are so many hard seltzers on the market, the type of car you’re looking to buy, even why women wear children’s clothing – our guest today is going to share why it is in fact TAXES that are behind nearly every aspect of our lives. We’re doing a deep dive as to how taxes tend to direct our behavior and decision making in ways that most folks don’t realize, and those are just a few of the examples that we discuss today. We’re joined today by Scott Hodge who has over 35 years of tax policy experience. More recently he led the Tax Foundation, a Washington DC based think-tank, for over two decades. And today we’re going to discuss his recently published book, Taxocracy which is full of examples of how misguided tax policy has led to the world we live in today. Most people think of taxes as an annoying aspect of life, but our conversation today reframes it as another powerful invisible hand at work in the market!
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Essie Cup, and I've spent my career interviewing people about politics, presidential elections, and some really tough breaking news. |
| 0:08.5 | But now I need a break, and I think you do too. |
| 0:11.5 | So on my new podcast, Off the Cup, |
| 0:14.0 | I'll still be interviewing people, |
| 0:16.0 | usually famous and most likely my friends. |
| 0:18.0 | But about life, you know, the stuff that consumes us |
| 0:21.0 | when we're not consumed by politics? |
| 0:24.0 | So come join me every Wednesday for some conversational self-care. |
| 0:27.6 | Listen to Off the Cup on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your favorite |
| 0:32.0 | shows. |
| 0:38.1 | Hey everybody, the time has finally come. This week, starting October 7th through October 11th, that's Monday through Friday everybody, we are revealing the iconic 400. |
| 0:47.4 | Yes, Bowen Yang and I famously missed our 400th episode here on Los Colchoristas, |
| 0:52.0 | but we are ready to reveal the iconic 400. |
| 0:55.6 | Who is on the list? Does it matter? No. Will it be fun? Yeah. |
| 1:02.0 | There might even be a surprise or two in there so listen carefully. |
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| 1:14.3 | Hey, I'm Gianna Prudenty and I'm jamek Jackson Gadsden. |
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