Harris and Trump's Terrible Tax Ideas

In this week's The Reason Roundtable, editors Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Peter Suderman parse the presidential candidates' latest batch of confounding ideas on tax policy before lamenting their various cringe media appearances over the past week.

05:21—Tax policy proposals

31:44—Weekly listener question

43:38—Candidate cringe media hits

54:18—This week's cultural recommendations

Mentioned in this podcast:

"Trump Panders to Auto Industry, Proposes Making Car Loan Interest Tax Deductible" by Joe Lancaster

"Instead of Vote-Buying Tax Promises, Let's Have Real Plans for Tax Relief" by J.D. Tuccille

"How Much Will the Major Presidential Candidates Steal From You?" by J.D. Tuccille

"Carving Out a Tax Cut Just for Tips Doesn't Make More Sense When Kamala Harris Does It" by Eric Boehm

"Kamala Harris' Plan To Hike Corporate Income Taxes Would Fall on All Americans" by Eric Boehm

"Harris: "Not a thing" she'd have done differently than Biden" by Erin Doherty

"The U.S. Can't Afford To Cut Taxes on Social Security Benefits" by Veronique de Rugy

"Biden and Harris' Record on Spending and Debt Is a Tragedy of Epic Proportion" by Veronique de Rugy

"Where They Stand: The Presidential Candidates on Issues That Matter to Older Americans" by AARP

"Sources of Federal Revenue" by Fiscal Data/Treasury Department

"Vivek Ramaswamy Is Wrong about National Debt: We Can't Grow Our Way Out of Its Ruinous Economic Impact" by Nick Gillespie

"Budget Deficit Hit $1.8 Trillion After Huge Increase in Borrowing Costs" by Eric Boehm

"Trump's Proposals Would Add $5.8 Trillion to the Deficit" by Eric Boehm

"Free the Art! Sell the Art!" by Crispin Sartwell

"How Will Reason Staffers Vote in 2020?"

"Show Us Your Vote!" by Matt Welch

"Neal Stephenson's P