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Explain It to Me

Will taxing the rich hurt growth – and will third parties save politics?

Explain It to Me

Vox Media Podcast Network

Politics, Society & Culture, Education, News

4.48K Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2016

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

It’s one of the most fundamental disputes in Washington: what effect do taxes have on the economy? On this week's episode of the Weeds, Ezra, Matt, and Sarah work through some of the top papers to explain. Also on this episode: why a third party won't save American politics, and a new working paper that shows a surprising way to encourage students to attend high school.This episode is brought to you by Squarespace. Start building your website today atSquarespace.com. Enter offer code WEEDS at checkout to get 10% off. Squarespace—Build it Beautiful.For a limited time, The Great Courses Plus is offering The Weeds listeners a chance to stream The Fundamentals of Photography and hundreds of other courses for free! Go to TheGreatCoursesPlus.com/WEEDS to take advantage of this special offer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

This week's episode of the weeds is brought to you by Squarespace.

0:02.7

Start building your website today at squarespace.com

0:05.3

and to offer code weeds a checkout to get 10% off.

0:08.3

Squarespace, build it beautiful.

0:10.1

This week's episode of the weeds is also brought to you by the Great Courses Plus.

0:13.7

Go to vgreatcoursesplus.com slash weeds

0:17.1

to take advantage of free streaming of, of course, the fundamentals of photography.

0:21.1

The following podcast contains explicit language.

0:25.4

I'm just so excited by the idea that there's both an old end-do literature we're going to hear about them both.

0:38.4

Hello, welcome to the latest episode of the weeds Fox's policy podcast on the Paneple Network.

0:43.4

I'm Matthew Glacias with me as usual.

0:45.4

Are my colleagues Sarah Cliff and as we're crying.

0:47.4

Hello.

0:48.4

Hi, we're digging out from the snow here in Washington, sort of,

0:51.4

and it's turning like gross and black everywhere on the street.

0:54.4

We're a little stir crazy.

0:55.4

Anything gonna happen here?

0:57.4

Ready to talk about public policy.

1:00.4

I feel really good.

1:01.4

I feel terrible.

1:02.4

I feel stir crazy.

1:03.4

I'm like very focused for this discussion.

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