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The Rubin Report

Who Is The Real Trump? Taxes, Economy & The New Socialism (Stephen Moore Interview)

The Rubin Report

Emma Dog Productions

News, News Commentary

4.614.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2019

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Dave Rubin of The Rubin Report talks to Stephen Moore, a visiting fellow at the Heritage Foundation and co-author of "Trumponomics: Inside the America First Plan to Revive Our Economy," He talks about his experience working with Donald Trump and how he advised President Trump on taxes and other issues. Stephen discusses his feelings on a flat tax and why he thinks a fixed rate income tax would be the fairest tax system. He also says that the people most against the flat tax are not liberals, but special interest groups in Washington D.C who are always lobbying for loopholes in the tax code. "If you really want to drain the swamp, go to a flat tax."  Stephen also shares many metrics that mainstream media overlooks about how well the economy is doing under Trump. Specifically how we are experiencing historic lows in unemployment, interest rates, and inflation as well as historic gains in wages. He also discusses his first hand accounts of Trump's negotiation skills and how he used them for the tax cuts and job act. Stephen also talks about his experience being nominated to be on the Federal Reserve Board of Governors and why he withdrew his nomination. He also talks about the current push for democratic socialism and the forgotten lessons about socialism from the 20th century. He finishes by discussing what he feels is a new cold war with China and why he feels the US will continue to be the main economic superpower for some time to come.

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0:00.0

I'm Dave Rubin and this is the Rubin Report.

0:06.0

Quick reminder to subscribe and make sure that you get notified of our videos.

0:10.1

Why not, right?

0:11.1

Okay, joining me today is an author economist and former advisor to President Trump.

0:16.2

Steve Moore, welcome to the room for it.

0:17.2

Hi Dave.

0:18.2

Thanks for having me.

0:19.2

I'm glad to have you here.

0:20.2

We're going to have to talk somewhat quick because you're in a major time crunch here.

0:22.9

So this is an honor to be on the show.

0:24.6

I'm thrilled to have you here.

0:25.6

This can be a little quicker than my average show.

0:27.3

So I usually do a little backstories.

0:28.3

I do a little backstories.

0:29.3

Usually I try to find out where people are from and all sorts of stuff.

0:32.0

We're going to do that next time I sit down with you.

0:34.5

Let's go right into economics as Wall Street Journal guy and a long time economist and you

0:41.0

studied at George Mason and all of this stuff.

0:43.4

How would you say your, what would you say your economic principles are?

0:48.4

Let's just do one-on-one more economic.

0:50.8

Well, I believe in freedom and free markets.

0:52.9

I believe that as Thomas Jefferson said that government, which government's least, government's

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