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The "What is Money?" Show

Disrupting Taxes and Reigniting the American Dream with Thomas J Cryan (WiM539)

The "What is Money?" Show

Robert Breedlove

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4.8710 Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2024

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Summary

Thomas J. Cryan joins me to discuss the nature of taxation, tariffs and the national debt, wealth inequality and money printing, inflation as a hidden form of taxation, the founding fathers and taxation, lobbying and corporate taxes, and how we can reignite the American Dream. Thomas J. Cryan is a media executive, attorney, entrepreneur, and author.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Everybody has to fight their congressmen and say, look, we're not going to spend.

0:03.9

That's what concerns me. That's what concerns me.

0:07.5

Okay, Robert, you're a soul. And in 24 hours, you're going to be born into a body.

0:12.6

What type of world are you going to construct?

0:15.0

Life, liberty, property, and leave people alone, basically.

0:17.8

Basically, you have to extract some money to supply the infrastructure so the society can work.

0:24.0

The current tax system that we have is very inefficient. The preservation or optimization

0:29.3

of individual freedom, in my opinion, seems to be at odds with taxation itself.

0:35.3

No, I hear you. I hear you, big guy. But there's a couple of things you got to think about in terms of the position we're in.

0:41.3

I mean, this is like the mafiosos collecting their protection racket money.

0:45.3

How is that different than what we have today?

0:48.3

Today, our debt to GDP ratio is 120%.

0:51.3

And rising fast.

0:53.3

And so you have to ask yourself, what happened between 1945 and 2024?

0:58.3

So can we talk about the role of money printing in the expansion of wealth inequality and government indebtedness?

1:05.2

Well.

1:16.5

So you've written a book titled Disrupting Taxes,

1:22.7

applying technology and science to the tax system and reigniting the American dream,

1:27.4

subtitle Exploring the Forgotten Stories of Tax taxes, gold, and money.

1:31.6

Obviously a very relevant topic for this show.

1:34.0

So I've got a lot of questions for you.

1:39.6

Hey, Robert, let me start by saying that's, you know, it's great to be here.

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