Financial Privacy May Be Spiraling
Plus: What's the most libertarian state?
Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Peter Suderman, and Nick Gillespie are all about the IRS budget increases, taxes, and surveillance you've been hearing about—all about getting rid of them, that is. Tune in for their takes on the latest headlines on this week's Reason Roundtable.
Discussed in the show:
2:22: The Biden administration, Elizabeth Warren, and Janet Yellen want to increase the IRS budget. Here's why they want to, and why they shouldn't.
13:22: The mechanisms of tax compliance.
31:08: Gag orders and third-party snooping.
43:10: Weekly Listener Question: I'm a freelance writer who can do my work anywhere, and I'm planning on moving in the next year. What's the most libertarian U.S. state?
48:55: Media recommendations for the week.
This weeks links:
- "Private Inequity: How a Powerful Industry Conquered the Tax System," by Jesse Drucker and Danny Hakim
- "Kiss Your Financial Privacy Goodbye," by Matt Welch
- "Elizabeth Warren's Plan To Close the 'Tax Gap' Doesn't Add Up," by Eric Boehm
- "ProPublica's Bombshell Tax Report That Wasn't," by Andrew Moylan and Andrew Wilford
- "Feds Seize CNN Reporter's Data, Then Gag CNN," by Matt Welch
- "Medicare Whac-A-Mole," by Peter Suderman
- "101 Cities Ranked on Just About Everything," by Radley Balko
- "Will Cities Survive 2020?" by Christian Britschgi
Send your questions to roundtable@reason.com. Be sure to include your social media handle and the correct pronunciation of your name.
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Audio production by Ian Keyser.
Assistant production by Regan Taylor.
Music: "Angeline," by The Brothers Steve.
