This is the Kator Daily Podcast for Sunday, January 27th, 2019. I'm Caleb Brown.

When the government

and why does a federal shutdown so heavily impact the day-to-day lives of people who are

not affiliated with the government.

Chris Edwards, director of tax policy, at the Cato Institute, comments.

Chris, my great hope for future government shutdowns is that no one really notices.

Well, one of the things that the shutdown has made clear

that the federal government has so many tentacles into different activities in the economy

that it really doesn't need to.

I mean the airport security for example could be run by local government airports as it is in other countries

The air traffic control system could be privatized as it has been in Britain and Canada

Indians on reservations, there's a million of them.

They're being heavily affected by the shutdown unfortunately,

but you know we should speed up the move towards self-sufficiency of American Indians on

reservations for example and untethered them from the federal government. A lot of our

national parks could be separated from the government and set up as nonprofit

organizations separate from government.

So there's a lot we can do here and if Congress wanted to make reforms, we could insulate ourselves from the squabbling

and political battles in Washington.

Now, some Republicans have suggested that federal workers be paid even when the government is shut down.

Yeah, I think that's reasonable.

I mean, after past shutdowns have ended, Congress has passed bills to repay the workers for the time they went on

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