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Back to SearchA Chat with Pete Sepp, President of the National Taxpayers Union
Season 1 Episode 164
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We start by explaining the Tax Chats DC Tour, 2025, an exclusive live event!
Then, Jeff and Scott chat with Pete Sepp, President of the National Taxpayers Union. They talk about the work…
Published on 2 hours ago
Progressive! A Chat with Ajay Mehrotra about Edwin Seligman
Season 1 Episode 163
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Jeff and Scott chat with Ajay Mehrotra, law professor at Northwestern, about the economist Edwin Seligman. They discuss Seligman's academic legacy, his views on progressive taxation, hi…
Published on 6 days, 19 hours ago
Medicaid! A Chat with Marc Goldwein
Season 1 Episode 162
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Jeff and Scott chat with Marc Goldwein, who is the Senior Vice President and Senior Policy Director for the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. They chat about Medicaid, a huge …
Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago
A Roman Tax Evasion Trial: A Chat with Anna Dolganov
Season 1 Episode 161
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Jeff and Scott chat with Anna Dolganov, an academy scientist at the Austrian Archeological Institute, about her work on a recently re-discovered papyrus. The papyrus contained notes fro…
Published on 2 months ago
A Chat with Hank Aaron about Social Security
Season 1 Episode 160
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Jeff and Scott chat with Henry (Hank) Aaron, a Senor Fellow Emeritus at the Brookings Institution, about Social Security. They discuss how it started, how we fund it, who gets it, how i…
Published on 2 months ago
No Tax On Tips? Jeff and Scott Receive a Huge Tax Break (a short emergency episode)
Season 1 Episode 159
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Jeff and Scott very briefly talk about the bombshell news that podcasters are included on the Treasury's list of jobs eligible for "no tax on tips."
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Published on 2 months, 2 weeks ago
Inflation and Tax Policy: A Chat with Kyle Pomerleau
Season 1 Episode 158
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Jeff and Scott talk with Kyle Pomerleau about how inflation interacts with tax policy and the tax law. Kyle points out that inflation interacts in two major ways: When we tax gains that…
Published on 2 months, 2 weeks ago
Brad Setser on Income Shifting and Trade in Pharmaceuticals
Season 1 Episode 158
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Jeff and Scott chat with Brad Setser, a Senior Fellow on the Council of Foreign Relations, about income shifting among pharma firms, as well as the impact that shifting has on tariffs a…
Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago
A Brief Tour of the Tax Museum's Library
Season 1 Episode 157
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Jeff and Scott take a look at 4 books that Jeff has recently acquired for the Tax Museum library, which numbers at least 677 volumes. Almost all of these books were a an academic beques…
Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago
Does Subsidizing E-Bikes Reduce Carbon Emissions? A Chat With Anders Anderson
Season 1 Episode 156
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In this episode, Jeff and Scott talk with Anders Anderson, a finance professor at the Stockholm School of Economics about, his research evaluating Sweden’s nationwide e-bike subsidy. T…
Published on 3 months, 2 weeks ago