In the latest Reason Roundtable, editors Matt Welch, Peter Suderman, Katherine Mangu-Ward, and Nick Gillespie discuss President Joe Biden’s newly proposed budget and wealth tax.
1:29: Biden’s budget proposal.
7:31: Biden wants a wealth tax.
36:36: Weekly listener question: “With respect to the school curriculum debates, I can easily imagine various tradcons responding to Nick’s take (‘Let schools teach what they want’) in the following manner: ‘Teacher schools in America are, in effect, progressive indoctrination camps. So when you have a libertarian approach to curriculum, the de facto result is all these progressive teachers indoctrinating your kids with warmed-over Marxism. This is a perfect example of libertarianism being tantamount to surrender in the culture war. Putatively neutral policies, in fact, tilt heavily leftward.’ Given that some members of the panel have first-hand experience with their kids imbibing wokeism at their public schools, what say you to this critique?”
This week’s links:
- “Biden Is Clueless About Inflation,” by Nick Gillespie and Regan Taylor
- “Biden’s Economy Is Extraordinary. But Inflation Is Still The Achilles’ Heel Of Democrats” by Jennifer Rubin
- Joe Biden’s Twitter
- “How Biden’s Agenda Is Causing Inflation” by Nick Gillespie
- “Want To Stop School Book Battles? Give Parents Real Choice in Education” by Nick Gillespie
- “The 19 Percent Solution” by Nick Gillespie and Veronique De Rugy
- “Joe Manchin on Biden’s Wealth Tax: ‘You Can’t Tax Something That’s Not Earned.‘” by Peter Suderman
- “Biden’s Desperate Wealth Tax Flip-Flop” by Peter Suderman
Send your questions to [email protected]. Be sure to include your social media handle and the correct pronunciation of your name.
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