The “One-Page Tax Plan” Edition
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🗓️ 27 April 2017
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Host's David Plotz, Emily Bazelon and John Dickerson discuss the health and tax plans on the table as the 100 day mark approaches, Obama's Wall Street speech, and a judge's block to an executive order on sanctuary cities.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
| 0:10.0 | Hello and welcome to the Slate Political Gab Fest for April 27, 2017, the one-page |
| 0:16.0 | tax plan edition on David Plots of Atlas Obscura. |
| 0:20.5 | Emily Bazelon of the New York Times Magazine joins me, Jan and Beyond from New Haven. |
| 0:25.1 | Hello, Emily. |
| 0:26.2 | Except I'm not in New Haven. |
| 0:27.4 | I'm in Brooklyn. |
| 0:28.3 | Oh, that's even better. |
| 0:30.1 | Hello, Brooklyn, Bazelon. |
| 0:31.9 | And sitting across from me at the Slate DC Studio H.Q is John Dickerson to Face the nation. Hello, John. Hello, David. Hello, Emily. |
| 0:41.4 | Hello. And John, you are, can we say that you're interviewing the president on Saturday? You excited |
| 0:47.1 | about that? Yes, you can say it. And yes, I'm excited about it. And I'm just going to say yes. |
| 0:51.6 | Good luck. May it go well. On this week's Gab Fest, in fact, the reason why John is interviewing the president, it's the Donald Trump's hundred days in office. It arrives with a new Trump care plan and a new extremely, extremely short tax plan. My third grader writes essays that are longer than that tax plan and more detailed. Do either |
| 1:14.5 | of those new grand schemes have a shot? Then President Obama has decided to take $400,000 from a Wall |
| 1:22.3 | street firm to give a speech. The correct response to that, I think, is oi. We will talk about, we'll talk about that. |
| 1:30.8 | Then yet another Trump immigration order is blocked by yet another judge. Will it hold up? |
| 1:37.9 | Plus, we'll have cocktail chatter. And then slate plus, I think we're going to slate plus, |
| 1:42.3 | what conspiracy theory do you believe to be true? |
| 1:46.5 | Or what conspiracy theory do we believe to be true? If you are not yet a Slate Plus member, go to Slate.com slash GabFest Plus to get it. |
| 1:55.4 | Two key announcements. We have two live shows coming up. One on Wednesday, May 10th, here in Washington, D.C. very soon at the Warner Theater. There's still some tickets available. It's going to be a great show. It will be great in part because Evan McMullen is going to join us as a special guest. Evan McMullen, the conservative presidential candidate and an eloquent anti-Trump conservative is going to be |
| 2:19.0 | with us on stage. So please go to slate.com slash live to get tickets for that show. We want to see you there. |
| 2:24.8 | And then Colorado, June 7th, we have our first live show in Denver at the Robert and Judy Newman Center for the Performing Arts. Wednesday, June 7th. |
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