Air Date: 04-29-2016
Today we take a look at the way our current low-tax structure ends up redistributing the burden of funding society to those least able to pay for it while widening the already staggeringly-large wealth gap.
Show Notes
Ch. 1: Opening Theme: A Fond Farewell - From a Basement On the Hill
Ch. 2: Act 1: City Stealing From Citizens By Tampering With Traffic Lights - @theyoungturks - Air Date: 10-18-14
Ch. 3: Song 1: The fix is in - Ok Go
Ch. 4: Act 2: Cops Generating Money off Black Communities... - @Thom_Hartmann - Air Date 07-31-15
Ch. 5: Song 2: Shakedown - Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band
Ch. 6: Act 3: Billionaire Governor Taxes Rich, Increases Minimum Wage, Economy Explodes - @DavidPakmanShow - Air Date: 02-28-15
Ch. 7: Song 3: Trickle Down - Hayseed Dixie
Ch. 8: Act 4: Republican Governors Seek to Raise Taxes On Middle Class and Poor - Majority Report (@MajorityFM) - Air Date: 01-28-15
Ch. 9: Song 4: Class Warfare - Chris Priest
Ch. 10: Act 5: Details of how Reaganomics in Kansas has utterly failed - Bradcast from @TheBradBlog - Air Date 4-19-16
Ch. 11: Song 5: That’s all - Clare and the Reasons
Ch. 12: Act 6: How To Pay For Tax Cuts For The Rich (If You're A Republican) - @theyoungturks - Air Date: 06-20-15
Ch. 13: Song 6: Robin Hood - Dick James
Ch. 14: Act 7: Don't Think the Poor Pay Enough Taxes? You're Living in a Fantasy World - @DavidPakmanShow - Air Date: 04-25-15
Ch. 15: Song 7: Work to Live - Serious Suicide
Ch. 16: Act 8: .@ryangrim on Mississippi's dependence on prisoners for revenue - Bradcast from @TheBradBlog - Air Date 4-19-16
Ch. 17: Song 8: Turtle (Bonobo Remix) - Pilote
Ch. 18: Act 9: Why An American In Sweden LOVES Paying His Taxes... - @Thom_Hartmann - Air Date: 04-12-16
Ch. 19: Song 9: Taxman - Nickel Creek
Ch. 20: Act 10: The myth of a heavy tax burden in the US - Economic Update w/ @profwolff - Air Date 4-24-16
Voicemails
Ch. 21: Voting my conscience in a solidly red state - Doug from Dallas/Fort Worth
Ch. 22: Clinton is better than any Republican - Nick from Florida
Ch. 23: Change doesn't happen during elections, it happens between them - Scott from Oakland
Ch. 24: Stand for our values even if it's worse in the short term - Rick from Scranton, PA
Ch. 25: A voting strategy epiphany - Charlie From Cincinnati
Voicemail Music: Loud Pipes - Classics
Ch. 26: Final comments on the all-male review of voicemails and the recent update to the technology of the show
Closing Music: Here We Are - Everyone's in Everyone
Produced by Jay! Tomlinson
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