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The Peter Schiff Show Podcast

Yes to Socialism Means No to Freedom – Ep. 388

The Peter Schiff Show Podcast

Peter Schiff

Business News, Business, Investing, News, Politics

4.65.9K Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2018

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Another Round of Tax Cuts
Now the Republicans are talking about another round of tax cuts. Just in time for the November election. Whether or not these tax cuts actually get passed is anyone's guess, but it will be an issue on the campaign trail, either because they delivered the tax cut or because the only thing standing in the way of a tax cut is the Democrats. Remember the individual tax cuts were passed the last time are temporary - they phase out. The corporate rates do not phase out. Of course, all tax cuts are temporary because any Congress can raise taxes any time it wants, so it's just semantics.
Temporary Tax Cuts Were a Lie
The reason they had to make the individual tax cuts temporary was so that they can pretend that the increase in the budget deficits was not going to be as high as everybody knew that it was. The presumption was that Congress would vote to extend them.  Here we are, not even a year has gone by and the Republicans already want to come back and make them permanent, which shows that the temporary tax cuts were a lie.
Government Revenues up 1% - Government Spending Up 7%
The August budget deficit was $211 billion - nearly double the deficit that we had in the same month last year. In the first 8 months of the year, the deficit is $895 billion. This is a trillion dollar deficit during a supposedly booming economy. If we can't generate surpluses in a booming economy, imagine the enormity of the deficits when the economy is not booming,. Imagine how bad the deficits will be when the economy is actually in a recession. In this most recent year, the deficit is $222 billion higher than the previous year and government spending is up 7%, yet revenues only rose 1%. So it is not closing the gap, not by a long shot.
Too Big to Bail
The U.S. government is too big to bail - not too big to fail - too big to bail. Of course the government technically does not need a bailout; it just prints more money. Of course, that's the problem. They will print money that nobody wants and the currency is going to collapse.
Saying Yes to Socialism Says No to Prosperity
Recently on the Bill Maher show Jim Carrey said, "Socialism is great, so why don't the Democrats just embrace it?  Say yes to Socialism, already. Now they can come out and openly declare that they are Socialists now because everybody likes it.  When you say yes to Socialism, you're saying no to some very important things, like individual liberty, freedom, prosperity. Voters don't know that.  They just think Socialism is a bunch of free stuff, and they get more free stuff under Socialism than under Capitalism. People want stuff. Our Sponsors: * Check out Chilipad and use my code sleep.me/GOLD for a great deal: https://sleep.me * Check out DBJourney and use my code Schiff15 for a great deal: https://dbjourney.com * Check out Fast Growing Trees and use my code GOLD for a great deal: https://www.fast-growing-trees.com * Check out Plaud AI and use my code GOLD for a great deal: https://plaud.ai * Check out Quince and use my code quince.com/gold for a great deal: https://www.quince.com * Check out TruDiagnostic and use my code GOLD20 for a great deal: https://www.trudiagnostic.com Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0

The Peter Ships Show.

0:08.8

Today we got the consumer credit numbers for the month of July and the increase was $16.6

0:15.2

billion, which was more than was expected.

0:19.2

And I think the general reaction to consumer credit numbers is whenever consumers borrow

0:24.7

more money than people think they're going to borrow, this is a good thing, right?

0:29.9

Because oh, it shows that the consumers have confidence and they're willing to go deeper

0:34.6

into debt because they feel good about the economy, they feel good about their jobs.

0:39.5

Yet I've said this over and over again, what would really be evidence of a strong economy

0:44.6

would be consumer credit going down.

0:47.7

It would be consumers buying stuff without having to borrow to pay for it, right?

0:52.6

If you have a growing economy where your consumers are earning more money, they wouldn't rely

0:57.7

on debt to finance their consumption.

1:00.3

They can consume stuff out of their income or in a really good economy, consumers are

1:05.8

saving.

1:07.2

Savings are growing and then eventually consumers can start spending their savings on some

1:12.8

of their consumer goods without having to borrow money in order to buy stuff.

1:18.0

Because when you save in order to buy up the things that you want, you earn interest

1:23.1

on your savings.

1:24.1

There'll be it now, you don't earn a lot of interest, but normally before the Federal

1:28.5

Reserve, Jacked Interest rates so low, while you're saving up for things that you want

1:34.3

to buy but that you can't afford, you get to earn interest which makes it easier for

1:39.2

you to buy something because you get to spend the interest that you've earned.

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