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Contra Krugman

Ep. 210 Elizabeth Warren's Fiscal Fantasies

Contra Krugman

Tom Woods

News, News & Politics, Business News

4.7822 Ratings

🗓️ 9 November 2019

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Krugman is impressed by the detail and alleged seriousness of Elizabeth Warren's Medicare for All plan and how it will be paid for. Bob and Tom, by contrast, are not so impressed.

Show notes for Ep. 210

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0:00.0

Contra Krugman, episode 210.

0:05.2

Welcome to the podcast that takes apart Paul Kruikman's New York Times column.

0:09.9

Join us as Tom Woods and Bob Murphy teach economics by uncovering and dissecting the

0:14.6

arrows of Kruikman.

0:15.8

Nobel Prize winner, newspaper columnist, and destroyer of nations.

0:19.9

It's time for Contra Krukman.

0:24.0

Folks, as you know, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has been spreading some pretty terrible ideas,

0:28.9

and she's wrong on just about everything. Well, I've put together the definitive smash of all of it.

0:33.8

The Green New Deal, affordable housing, so-called, free college, high tax rates. It's in another

0:39.2

free e-book, yes, a free e-book called AOC is Wrong, the upside-down world of Alexandria Ocasio-C-C-Cortez.

0:46.1

Grab your free copy at AOCis-Rong.com. Hey, everybody, Tom and Bob here with another episode of Contra Krugman.

0:53.6

We got sort of some

0:55.1

economics here. It's some health care. And you may think, uh, you know, we've talked about

0:59.2

health care. But the Elizabeth Warren proposal for health care is being talked about. And she

1:06.0

does claim that she's rolled out a plan that's going to solve the problem and not raise taxes on the middle class.

1:14.2

So Krugman has written a column on this and we want to examine it.

1:18.6

And let me say, Bob, before I do the summary, that the background of this is, I'm not saying that she wouldn't have done this otherwise, but I think she was under particular pressure to produce a document like this because in one of the debate performances

1:33.7

she had, it was cringeworthy her performance because she was being asked, how are you going to

1:39.6

pay for this Medicare for All plan that you have without raising taxes.

1:44.8

She will not sign any legislation, Tom, that raises taxes on the middle class.

1:49.1

I think she made herself clear.

1:51.2

Yeah.

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