The Carriage Tax
Planet Money
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🗓️ 7 December 2019
⏱️ 19 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is Planet Money from NPR. |
| 0:07.8 | My nephew Seth is a pro at getting money from his parents, so since it is fundraising |
| 0:12.0 | season here at NPR I called him for advice. |
| 0:14.7 | You have to work up to it, so do all my chores without asking. |
| 0:20.2 | Then when the time comes they're like, wow, that's a nice kid. |
| 0:23.7 | I would give him money if he asked for it. |
| 0:25.8 | This year we thought you had a recycle, how to survive a snake bite, even how to metal |
| 0:29.9 | in an election. |
| 0:31.1 | So go to donate.npr.org slash Planet Money. |
| 0:34.6 | Be a good kid, and you'll get good money. |
| 0:38.8 | Craig you back. |
| 0:39.8 | Yes I am. |
| 0:40.8 | I was just in Mount Vernon, the historic home of George Washington. |
| 0:43.6 | Wow. |
| 0:44.6 | And I had a great tour. |
| 0:46.0 | George Washington said there was no estate in all of United America, so pleasantly situated. |
| 0:54.4 | This Betty Brown, she gave a really great tour of Mount Vernon. |
| 0:57.3 | The river is about a mile wide. |
| 0:58.9 | And she taught me a lot about George Washington. |
| 1:01.2 | He was a great leader, a slave owner, he was a military genius. |
| 1:05.8 | His teeth were not wood, but his house was. |
| 1:10.4 | That's common though, right? |
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