Air Date: 10/17/2017
Today we look at the philosophy, tricks of the trade and long-term strategy behind the GOP's never-ending quest to grant more tax cuts to corporations and the wealthy while cutting popular programs aimed at aiding the poor
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Show Notes
Ch. 1: Opening Theme: A Fond Farewell - From a Basement On the Hill
Ch. 2: Act 1: Idiotic Economist Pushes HORRIBLE Tax Plan That Left Kansas Crippled - Majority Report (@MajorityFM) - Air Date: 09-26-17
Ch. 3: Song 1: world of ruin - Damiano Baldoni
Ch. 4: Act 2: How Republicans Created Tax Cut Myths - @DavidPakmanShow - Air Date: 10-04-17
Ch. 5: Song 2: peaceOut (ft. KungFu) - airtone
Ch. 6: Act 3: Understanding what we can about the proposed tax plan - CounterSpin (@FAIRmediawatch) - Air Date 10-6-17
Ch. 7: Song 3: Like Music (cdk Mix) (ft. Phasenwandler) - cdk
Ch. 8: Act 4: Fox News Calls Out Trump Tax Cut Lies - @theyoungturks - Air Date: 10-03-17
Ch. 9: Song 4: Headlights/Mountain Road - The Contessa
Ch. 10: Act 5: Understanding the reality of corporate taxes - @RalphNader Radio Hour - Air Date 10-7-17
Ch. 11: Song 5: Forgotten Land (ft. Gurdonark, Joanne Gabriel) - Doxent Zsigmond
Ch. 12: Act 6: How corporations rigged our tax system against us - Economic Update w/ @profwolff - Air Date 4-24-16
Ch. 13: Song 6: Celestial Navigation - Aeronaut
Ch. 14: Act 7: They plan to raise and then panic about the deficit - @offkiltershow - Air Date 10-6-17
Voicemails
Ch. 15: Seeking a fundamentally just justice system - Jesse from Seattle
Ch. 16: How people get help after emergencies - FEMA employee
Ch. 17: Patreon Feedback - Alan from Connecticut
Voicemail Music: Loud Pipes - Classics
Ch. 18: Final comments on what you’ll find on the Best of the Left social network
Closing Music: Here We Are - Everyone's in Everyone
(Additional music from Blue Dot Sessions)
Activism:
Fighting tax cuts for the rich and budget cuts needs the same momentum as the healthcare fight! Dive in and fight back with these campaigns:
TrumpTaxToolkit.org (Use the Senator-specific toolkits to fight back against tax cuts for the 1%, and more)
NotOnePenny.org (Mobilize to demand not one penny in tax cuts for the rich, and more)
HandsOff.org (Share how budget cuts impact you personally, and more)
Written by BOTL Communications Director Amanda Hoffman
Produced by Jay! Tomlinson
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