Taxing Billionaires into Extinction - Featuring: Josie "The Red-Headed Libertarian"
The Political Orphanage
Andrew Heaton
4.9 • 1000 Ratings
🗓️ 14 November 2019
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Notable billionaire and possible Keebler elf Michael Bloomberg has thrown his hat into the presidential ring as a Democrat. Meanwhile Bernie Sanders wants to outlaw billionaires, and Elizabeth Warren wants to slowly deflate them, like cash balloons.
Josie "The Red-Headed Libertarian" joins the show to discuss billionaires, wealth taxes, the Laffer Curve, and where to hide in a nasty political climate.
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| 0:16.1 | Hello and welcome to the political orphanage. Do you like humor and problem solving more than shouting and fist shaking? Are you tired of a media hellscape that's more battleground than playground? |
| 0:21.5 | Did you accidentally summon Kuthu once while a member of a death cult? |
| 0:25.8 | Do you like sandwiches? |
| 0:27.7 | If so, welcome home. |
| 0:29.9 | Welcome home to the political orphanage. |
| 0:32.8 | I'm your host, Andrew Heaton. |
| 0:35.2 | Quick and real announcement. |
| 0:37.3 | Next Monday, I will be launching alienating the audience |
| 0:40.2 | as its very own podcast. |
| 0:42.0 | If you want to go way, way, way too far down the rabbit hole on science fiction, |
| 0:47.0 | next Monday search for alienating the audience and you can listen to me and Tim Sandiferer team up to talk about the underlying philosophical constructs |
| 0:54.9 | of The Twilight Zone and more sci-fi to follow. |
| 1:00.0 | Look for alienating the audience next Monday. |
| 1:02.8 | All right, back to the show. |
| 1:05.6 | Orphans, today we're going to go on a field trip. |
| 1:09.5 | We're going to take a field trip to New England, |
| 1:11.7 | and we're going to talk to fully half of the libertarians who live there. |
| 1:16.2 | Their name is Josie, also known as Josie the Red-headed Libertarian. |
| 1:20.9 | She's great. |
| 1:21.9 | I'm pretty sure she's married, but if she's not, I'm a |
| 1:26.4 | hop a red eye to Boston and stand on her lawn with a boombox over my head |
| 1:29.8 | until she fires a pistol at me. But a lot of libertarians flirt that way, so who knows? |
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