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South of The Border

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We're late --really late-- so we're going to make this brief: we've got our old friend Mickey Kaus to talk about Biden's immigration policy, California politics, and other assorted ephemera, and we've got Mary Eberstadt on her book Primal Screams:How the Sexual Revolution Created Identity Politics. We also punditize (yes, we just invented that word) Biden's press conference, and debate what city would be better to move to: San Francisco or New York. Finally, what does "Zoom, Duck, Milkshake, Cinnamon Toast Crunch" mean? You'll have to tune in to find out.

Music from this week's show: Illegal Alien by Genesis

Hosts:
James LileksPeter RobinsonRob Long
Guests:
MEMary EberstadtMKMickey Kaus

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  • RufusRJones@RufusRJones

    Speaking of Amazon simply following the tax laws that Elizabeth Warren passes. This is a great interview. Marc Faber makes a great point. Progressive taxation and redistribution is simply countered by wealthy people stealing it all back with the Federal Reserve. Can anybody point out anything he says that is wrong? It's a stupid system where you are stupid to not use it to steal from your fellow citizen. And then everybody pays a cut to the government to do it.

  • RufusRJones@RufusRJones

    I'm not sure you can really make the wages of the bottom go up given all of the automation and globalized labor. I think we have to switch to a deflationary economy and live off of better purchasing power. Of course this would be pure hell too effect.

  • ToryWarWriter@ToryWarWriter
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    RufusRJones (View Comment):

    I’m not sure you can really make the wages of the bottom go up given all of the automation and globalized labor. I think we have to switch to a deflationary economy and live off of better purchasing power. Of course this would be pure hell too effect.

    Just do what Trump did in 2019 before the Pandemic. Create a labor shortage. When labor is scarce, the cost goes up and people get paid real wages.

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