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Phil Harvey is today’s guest, discussing his recent book and a few ways that tax dollars are distributed to some for questionable reasons. Phil shares everything from billionaires receiving million-dollar payouts for owning farmland to customers paying double the price of sugar in the local grocery store.
Book:
Welfare for the Rich: How Your Tax Dollars End Up in Millionaires’ Pockets-And What You Can Do About It by Phil Harvey
Key Takeaways:
[1:40] How are taxpayers getting burned by welfare going to many of the wrong places?
[4:30] How are the well-to-do getting welfare?
[6:30] Jason and Phil discuss the bonuses received by owners of farmland for no apparent reason.
[11:30] Some coastal cities have zoned land in such a way that housing has become unaffordable.
[16:30] Is the open spaces argument, “you’ve already got yours, so you’re not going to share?”
[18:15] Everyone pays twice as much as they should have to pay for sugar, to benefit which sugar baron?
Websites:
508 episodes
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Phil Harvey is today’s guest, discussing his recent book and a few ways that tax dollars are distributed to some for questionable reasons. Phil shares everything from billionaires receiving million-dollar payouts for owning farmland to customers paying double the price of sugar in the local grocery store.
Book:
Welfare for the Rich: How Your Tax Dollars End Up in Millionaires’ Pockets-And What You Can Do About It by Phil Harvey
Key Takeaways:
[1:40] How are taxpayers getting burned by welfare going to many of the wrong places?
[4:30] How are the well-to-do getting welfare?
[6:30] Jason and Phil discuss the bonuses received by owners of farmland for no apparent reason.
[11:30] Some coastal cities have zoned land in such a way that housing has become unaffordable.
[16:30] Is the open spaces argument, “you’ve already got yours, so you’re not going to share?”
[18:15] Everyone pays twice as much as they should have to pay for sugar, to benefit which sugar baron?
Websites:
508 episodes
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