488: Welfare for the Rich, Government Creep & The Human Cost of Welfare by Phil Harvey
Phil Harvey is today\u2019s guest, discussing his recent book and a few ways that tax dollars are distributed to some for questionable reasons. Phil shares everything from billionaires receiving million-dollar payouts for owning farmland to customers paying double the price of sugar in the local grocery store.\xa0
Book:
Welfare for the Rich: How Your Tax Dollars End Up in Millionaires\u2019 Pockets-And What You Can Do About It\xa0by Phil Harvey
Key Takeaways:
[1:40] How are taxpayers getting burned by welfare going to many of the wrong places?
[4:30] How are the\xa0well-to-do\xa0getting welfare?
[6:30] Jason and Phil discuss the bonuses received by owners of farmland for no apparent reason.
[11:30] Some coastal cities have zoned land in such a way that housing has become unaffordable.
[16:30] Is the open spaces argument, \u201cyou\u2019ve already got yours, so you\u2019re not going to share?\u201d
[18:15] Everyone pays twice as much as they should have to pay for sugar, to benefit which sugar baron?
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