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BONUS: Where's your $4,000 raise?

BONUS: Where's your $4,000 raise?

FromPitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer


BONUS: Where's your $4,000 raise?

FromPitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer

ratings:
Length:
15 minutes
Released:
Dec 28, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Civic Ventures president Zach Silk joins us for a quick explainer on how Republicans sold their trickle-down tax cuts as a great deal for the middle class—and how angry suburban voters punished them for their lies.
Further reading:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2018/04/10/donald-trump-gop-tax-cuts-wont-deliver-big-raise-column/471188002/
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/10/11/republican-tax-cut-for-rich-economy-215696
Released:
Dec 28, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

Any society that allows itself to become radically unequal eventually collapses into an uprising or a police state—or both. Join venture capitalist Nick Hanauer and some of the world’s leading economic and political thinkers in an exploration of who gets what and why. Turns out, everything you learned about economics is wrong. And if we don’t do something about rising inequality, the pitchforks are coming.