Your Heard Tell Twice on Sunday show covering all the great discussions from the week that was in turning down the noise of the news cycle and getting to the information we need. This episode:
Alys Watson Brown returns to Heard Tell. We talk UK politics, how neither PM Boris Johnson or opposition leader Sir Keir Starmer have been covering themselves or their parties in glory, but the present status quo may go for a while. Also, the rising economic issues in the UK as with much of the world such as inflation and cost of living are dominating headlines and changing policy and political priorities. Also, Alys has been writing about America's FDA, and that government entities relentless crusade against not only smoking, but vaping and other smoking alternatives as well. Alys talks not just the duplicitous and question policy, but also puts a personal spin on how public health should be about improving the public's health, not just politically expedient crusading.
Joe Szymanski of Elections Daily who joins to breakdown recent primary elections, look ahead to the general, and take stock of what we have and haven't learned in a busy and contentious midterm election season. In addition to the numbers and results, we also talk about the problem of some truly unfit for office candidates in Missouri and Pennsylvania. Joe also points out some congressional races and districts that aren't making headlines, but ones that you should be paying attention to.
Journalist Eric Garcia talks about the recent goings on in congress, how the US Senate really works behind the scenes, and who the players are that get things done. We talk about Eric's recent interview and feature piece on US Senator Thom Tillis (R-NC) on how he went from IBM executive to influential member of the Senate. We talk the recent gun legislation which Tillis was key on, and also how it was the influential North Carolinian who was behind the Code Red that brought down Rep Madison Cawthorn.
Jen Sidorova from Reason joins Heard Tell to talk about public pensions, and for a change has an example of a city that not only addressed their pension problem but had such a remarkable turn around their budget and spending was completely altered. Jen explains why so many public pension schemes are in trouble, what to do about the more than $1 trillion in unfunded public pensions, and how the discussion needs to be had sooner rather than later when these funds are in trouble.
Journalist Molly McCluskey, who returns to Heard Tell to talk about her excellent work with Diplomatica Global Media, which meets the crossing of politics, architecture, intrigue, and human interest stories at the Embassies and diplomatic properties here in America. Molly explains some of the history and background, and talks about two stories that exemplify how these properties not only bring history to life but are essential players in current events. She writes about a man who has been protesting outside the Vatican Embassy for over 25 years, and also uses the Ukrainian Embassy as an example of how support and protest of world events usually exhibits at diplomatic properties.
Travis Nix of Young Voices, who joins to talk about his recent writing in the Wall Street Journal on the latest version of "tax the rich" schemes, this time through regulation at the Treasury Department by the Obama Administration. Travis also explains why good tax policy is foundational to effective government, how we are a long way away from that, and why so few folks seem to be wanting to talk tax policy despite the importance of the issue. Travis also uses Brazil as an example of how the proposed "double taxing" policy is bad of America, bad for our trading partners and allies, and is really worrisome in the details of how the policy is written.
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