Veep-onomics

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🗓️ 25 September 2024

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Summary

Next week, JD Vance and Tim Walz will face off in the only confirmed vice presidential debate ahead of the election. As voters look ahead to what their economic policies might be, we look back to see what they have said and done, and how it turned out.

Planet Money's newsletter author Greg Rosalsky has spent some time combing through the economic records of Vance and Walz, and has some knowledge to share. Why does Walz support universal free school lunches, and why do some criticize him for it? Why have some called Vance a "Khan-servative?" And, how much do these candidates represent a break from the past?

This episode was hosted by Nick Fountain and Greg Rosalsky. It was produced by James Sneed and Emma Peaslee. It was edited by Meg Cramer. Sierra Juarez fact-checked it, and it was engineered by Valentina Rodríguez Sánchez. Alex Goldmark is Planet Money's Executive Producer.

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0:25.0	Being Vice President is a pretty sweet gig.
0:31.0	You get free housing, access to plane, you get to vote in Congress, but only when the vote really matters.
0:38.0	It's kind of like being president, but way, way less pressure. And because of that normally, we do not care
0:46.2	that much about what any given vice president thinks. But this is not a normal year.
0:52.2	There's a vice president running for president. But this is not a normal year.
0:52.9	There's a vice president running for president,
0:55.8	and I don't think I'm going out on a limb here.
0:57.7	In this very close race, it just seems like the VP picks,
1:02.4	they really matter. their place on the ticket says something about where each party is headed
1:08.4	alone with the plan of money. I'm Nick Fountain. Today on the show we're gonna dig deep into the economic thinking of both
1:14.4	campaigns vice presidential picks J.D. Vance and Tim Walsh. Where did they come
1:20.6	from economically? Where do they stick to party orthodoxy? And more
1:25.7	interestingly, where do they buck the trend?
1:31.5	All right, so our mission today, should we choose to accept it, is to figure out the economic
1:36.8	principles of the two potential vice presidents.
1:40.6	For that mission, we have tapped Greg Rizowski who writes our newsletter.
1:44.0	Hi, Greg, you ready?
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