The rise of the (tax) resistance

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🗓️ 16 April 2024

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

It’s Tax Day! Millions of Americans have already filed their 2023 returns, but today we’re talking about tax protesters and the moral and ethical reasons some refuse to file their taxes or pay what they owe. Plus, the “no landing” scenario has entered the chat. And, what are we getting wrong about the cosmos?

Here’s everything we talked about today:

- “Taxes are due even if you object to government policies or doubt the validity of the 16th Amendment’s ratification” from The Conversation

- “Taxes 2024: I stopped paying taxes a decade ago. The results shocked me.” from Slate

- “‘The 401(k) industry owns Congress’: How lawmakers quietly passed a $300 billion windfall to the wealthy” from Politico

- “Fed Hiking Rates to 6.5% Is ‘Real Risk’ for UBS Strategists” from Bloomberg

- “March retail sales data show the American consumer is still pretty strong” from Axios

- “World’s top cosmologists convene to question conventional view of the universe” from The Guardian

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0:06.4	Ah, what is it now?
0:08.4	Blush.
0:09.4	Blush, all right.
0:10.4	Okay. Maybe bronzer, perhaps, depending on what you're doing.
0:14.6	But, uh, save me.
0:15.9	I was very entertained by that.
0:17.3	Thank you.
0:18.3	Clearly you were, yes.
0:19.3	I needed that.
0:20.3	I appreciate it.
0:21.3	My lordly be. Hey everybody I'm Connor Rizdow
0:25.5	welcome back to Make Me Smart where we make today make sense.
0:29.1	And I'm Kimberly Adams. Thank you everyone for joining us on this Monday, April the 15th. Happy Tax Day.
0:36.0	Yes, happy tax day. Although that is not why I'm crank you today. I'm just crank you outright.
0:40.0	Anyway, we're going to do some news and some smiles, and you get to go first.
0:43.8	I mean, there's, you know, war.
0:46.2	Yeah, well, there's that.
0:47.2	The general state of the world, right?
0:48.8	Negative, negative opinions on things.
0:53.0	So, anyhow, because it's Tax Day, I wanted to highlight two tax-related stories.
0:59.0	The first one is kind of tied to the war and the ongoing conflict in the Middle East because it
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