The vaunted, versatile VAT

Explain It to Me

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Politics, Society & Culture, Education, News

4.4 • 8K Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2017

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Matt, Ezra, and Sarah talk about the possibility of a Value-Added Tax, midterm elections, and acid rain. Mentioned works: A Fine Mess: A Global Quest for a Simpler, Fairer, and More Efficient Tax System by T. R. Reid Creating an American Value-Added Tax The People Left Behind When Only the ‘Deserving’ Poor Get Help Mortality and Access to Care among Adults after State Medicaid Expansions White paper: Long-Run Pollution Exposure and Adult Mortality: Evidence from the Acid Rain Program Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're gonna do the VAT?
0:01.0	I'm gonna do that.
0:02.0	Yeah.
0:03.0	That, that, that, that.
0:04.0	[♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪
0:17.0	Hello, welcome to another episode of The Weeds on the Fox Media Podcast Network.
0:20.7	I'm Matthew Glacias, joined today by Sarah Cliff and Ezra Klein.
0:24.4	We've got a great show, amazing acid rain research coming.
0:28.2	There's even some elections coming up, but we really wanted to kick things off with
0:33.0	the subject that it's really at the front of everybody's mind these days.
0:36.7	People can't stop talking about it.
0:37.7	So, everybody's lips.
0:38.7	What is it, Ezra?
0:40.0	The value added tax.
0:41.0	The VAT.
0:42.0	The VAT.
0:43.0	Sometimes known as the GST.
0:44.2	Sometimes known as the GST.
0:45.8	Ooh, that, that's a, that's a good one up right there.
0:48.6	But the real cool kids call it the GST.
0:52.5	Before, before, before, I'm popular, you know, before it's sold out, it was the GST.
0:55.9	You're from Canada, you have a VAT.
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