Starting off the new year the correct way.

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Topic - Pending spending bill and proposed IRS growth and Bureaucracy.

Preston Brashers is a senior policy analyst in the Grover M. Hermann Center for the Federal Budget who focuses on tax policy. Brashers’ research interests include corporate and international tax policy, simplifying and improving transparency in the tax code, tax and entitlement reform, and the distortionary effects of taxes.

Prior to joining Heritage, Brashers was a tax policy specialist in the Research and Fiscal Analysis division of the Washington state Department of Revenue. There he led modeling of the fiscal impacts of various business taxes.

Previously, he was a manager at PricewaterhouseCoopers, where he provided transfer pricing consulting and compliance services to multinational companies in the United States and around the globe. 

Brashers received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Kentucky in Lexington, KY and his B.S. in economics from the University of Washington in Seattle, WA.

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Hans von Spakovsky is an authority on a wide range of issues—including civil rights, civil justice, the First Amendment, immigration, the rule of law, and government reform—as a senior legal fellow in The Heritage Foundation’s Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies.

As manager of the think tank’s Election Law Reform Initiative, von Spakovsky also studies and writes about campaign finance restrictions, voter fraud and voter ID, enforcement of federal voting rights laws, administration of elections and voting equipment standards. 

Heritage’s election reform project examines not only how to protect the integrity of campaigns and elections but to achieve greater fairness and security. “In an era of razor-thin election margins, these issues are vital to the preservation of our republican form of government and the rule of law,” von Spakovsky says.

Previously, as manager of the think tank’s Civil Justice Reform Initiative, von Spakovsky studied how plaintiffs’ attorneys and activists attempt to manipulate the courts for their own ends—at the expense of the public.

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This is the 24th anniversary of the Your Financial Editor Show on WFMD. Today Chris has a special guest, Doctor, Ben Carson, Listen for this special show.

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Gregory Zuckerman is a Special Writer at The Wall Street Journal. He's an investigative reporter who writes about business and investing topics. In the past, Greg wrote the "Heard on the Street" column and covered hedge funds, private equity and the credit markets for the paper.

Greg is the author of "The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution," "The Frackers: The Outrageous Inside Story of the New Billionaire Wildcatters," and “The Greatest Trade Ever: The Behind-the-Scenes Story of How John Paulson Defied Wall Street and Made Financial History.” Greg and his two sons wrote "Rising Above: How 11 Athletes Overcame Challenges in their Youth to Become Stars,” and "Rising Above: Inspiring Women in Sports," books for young readers and adults that describe the moving and remarkable stories of how various sports stars overcame imposing setbacks in their youth.

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Maya MacGuineas is the president of the bipartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. Her areas of expertise include budget, tax, and economic policy. As a leading budget expert and a political independent, she has worked closely with members of both parties and serves as a trusted resource on Capitol Hill. MacGuineas testifies regularly before Congress and has published broadly, including regularly in The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Financial Times, The Atlantic, and numerous other outlets. She also appears regularly as a commentator on television.

MacGuineas oversees a number of the Committee’s projects including the grassroots coalition Fix the Debt; the Committee’s Fiscal Institute; and FixUS, a project seeking to better understand the root causes of our nation’s growing divisions and deteriorating political system, and to work with others to bring attention to these issues and the need to fix them. Her most recent area of focus is on the future of the economy, technology, and capitalism.

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Strategic-minded professional with deep experience in cutting edge macroeconomic research and advisory services for institutional investors and multinational corporations. Proven expertise in setting corporate strategy, driving product innovation and profitable new business acquisition, and building and maintaining excellent client relationships.

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Mark P. Mills is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a faculty fellow at Northwestern University’s McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, where he co-directs an Institute on Manufacturing Science and Innovation. He is also a strategic partner with Montrose Lane (an energy-tech venture fund). Previously, Mills cofounded Digital Power Capital, a boutique venture fund, and was chairman and CTO of ICx Technologies, helping take it public in 2007. Mills is a regular contributor to Forbes.com and is author of Digital Cathedrals (2020) and Work in the Age of Robots (2018). He is also coauthor (with Peter Huber) of The Bottomless Well: The Twilight of Fuel, the Virtue of Waste, and Why We Will Never Run Out of Energy (2005).

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David A. Ditch, a policy analyst at the Heritage Foundation, focuses on federal spending and fiscal policy. He is a research associate in the Grover M. Hermann Center for the Federal Budget. He has appeared on local radio stations across the country, and his work also been featured on FoxBusiness.com, the Los Angeles Times, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and many other publications. Prior to joining Heritage, David was a Budget Analyst for the Senate Budget Committee where he oversaw appropriations and agriculture. He has also worked for the Senate Small Business Committee, Rep. Todd Young, Rep. Mark Sanford, and Rep. Raul Labrador.

Today he tries to explain the 3.5 billion economic bill.

Mike Gonzalez, the Angeles T. Arredondo E Pluribus Unum Senior Fellow at The Heritage Foundation, writes on Critical Race Theory, identity politics, diversity, multiculturalism, assimilation and nationalism, as well as foreign policy in general. 

Today he speaks about parents being targeted by the DOJ. because they are against CRT in schools.

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