In The Tank (ep202) – Craziest Proposals From Democratic Candidates
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In this week’s edition of the In the Tank Podcast, American Experiment’s Isaac Orr is joined by Donald Kendal and Justin Haskins of The Heartland Institute to discuss American Experiment’s nomination for the “most influential research” award for their study Doubling Down on Failure, for the State Policy Network’s Bob Williams award. We also discuss work from the Cato Institute, The Heartland Institute, and the Tax Foundation.
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OPENING CHIT CHAT
Human Progress – Unskilled Workers and Food Prices in America (1919-2019)
https://humanprogress.org/article?p=1798
Google’s extravagant climate change Camp mocked as party for ‘entitled fools’
https://pagesix.com/2019/08/01/googles-extravagant-climate-change-camp-mocked-as-party-for-entitled-fools/
THINK TANK AWARDS
SPN – 2019 Bob Williams Awards Finalists Announced
https://spn.org/2019-bob-williams-awards-finalists-announced/
DEM CANDIDATES PROPOSALS
New York Times – What Would Giving Health Care to Undocumented Immigrants Mean?
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/03/health/undocumented-immigrants-health-care.html
Tax Foundation – Does Andrew Yang’s “Freedom Dividend” Proposal Add Up?
https://taxfoundation.org/andrew-yang-value-added-tax/
Reason – Mayor Pete Wants to Destroy the Gig Economy in Order to Save it
https://reason.com/2019/07/26/mayor-pete-wants-to-destroy-the-gig-economy-in-order-to-save-it/
MEDICARE-FOR-ALL TAX HIKES
Heartland Institute – Estimating the Income Tax Hikes Required to Pay for Bernie Sanders’ Medicare-for-All Plan
https://www.heartland.org/publications-resources/publications/policy-brief-estimating-the-income-tax-hikes-required-to-pay-for-bernie-sanders-medicare-for-all-plan