The Insanity of Trump's Big Beautiful Bill

The Reason Roundtable

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🗓️ 7 July 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Reason Roundtable.
0:08.3	This is the podcast of Free Minds, Free Markets, and Free Takes.
0:11.8	I'm your host, Peter Souterman, and today I am joined by my illustrious colleagues,
0:16.2	Catherine Mangy Ward, Nick Gillespie, and special guest, Reasons very own, Eric Bame.
0:22.2	Everyone say hello.
0:23.9	Howdy.
0:25.7	Hello.
0:26.2	Happy Monday, Peter.
0:28.1	Happy Monday.
0:29.4	You know, this is why we need a leader.
0:32.4	Yeah.
0:33.3	Happy Monday and happy birthday to America.
0:36.8	Libertarians don't love leaders is what I've heard, or at least not in the government.
0:40.6	And we're going to talk about that today.
0:41.9	We're going to talk about a lot of things we don't like about American politics later on in this show.
0:47.0	But I want to start with a reflection on what makes America great.
0:50.7	So I am not by nature a patriotic person.
0:53.2	But the older I get, the more I just love America.
0:57.1	Yes, America is an imperfect place. Too many flaws past and present to mention here. But it was
1:03.1	founded on a great idea. We hate kings. We hate taxes. And we love individual liberty. Our lives are our
1:10.6	own to make or mess up as we please.
1:13.7	And more than any other country or region in the world today, we are still getting it right.
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