”Loopholes.” ”Tax the Rich.” “Tax Credits to Create Jobs.” “Buffet Tax.” Enough of this!

Join Bob Zadek and Tax Historian and prolific tax blogger Joe Thorndike (http://thorndike.com/) in this episode for a light and breezy hour of tax policy from a Libertarian perspective. Bob’s got a two sentence change to the tax law which would instantly give every taxpayer the same power as Congress and privatize all governmental income transfers. Bob and Joe clear the fog of tax jargon. Taxation is the mother of all pocketbook issues.

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Bankers have been getting lots of bad press lately. Everyone seems to have an opinion about what is wrong with their practices. Occupiers want them shut down. Senator Durbin wants you to stop doing business with them. Dodd-Frank transfers their profits to oppressed retailers like Walmart and Target Stores. Liz Warren wants to regulate them into oblivion. Tea Partiers resent their access to Congress. Despite all this, Bob will channel the great NYC detective Kojak, and ask the bankers of America “Who loves ya, baby?” In this episode, Tom McGraw, hard working CEO of the First National Bank of Northern California, joins Bob in the studio to discuss a bank’s role in a free market society and the strained relationships between bankers, their customers and government.

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As the true nature of the Republican Presidential contenders begins to appear, Libertarians are wondering if there is any candidate they can embrace. If there are more than one who’d qualify, who should they support and why? How does each candidate’s platform look through a Libertarian filter? Even more intriguing is the prospect of Ron Paul or Gary Johnson running as a third-party candidate on a Libertarian Party slate. Will that throw the election to Obama or give Libertarians a voice we’ve never had before? Who better to discuss these key issues with Bob than Mark Hinkle, Chair of the Libertarian Party? In this episode, Mark joins Bob live in the studio to discuss the 2012 presidential election from a purely Libertarian point of view. Important election. Important topic. Important show. Bob and Mark. Don’t miss it.

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Occupy here.  Occupy there.  Don’t you wonder who are the occupiers are and what it is that they want?  What if you learned that you actually agreed with most of their demands?   You’d have to take back all those nasty things you may have been thinking about them.  Bob thinks that Libertarians have more in common with the occupiers than meets the eye.  In any event, it’s time to look past the makeshift tents, the litter and the scruffy out-of-work college students to find the group’s core principles.  In this episode, Bob is joined by Professor James W. Lark III, math professor, Libertarian and adviser to the Liberty Coalition.  An hour with Bob and Professor Lark and you might be packing your bags to go and occupy somewhere!  Content.  Fun.  Peerspective.  Zadek 103011 by zadekproducer

Ever hear of asset forfeiture?  Probably not.  But the odds are that you will.  The day may come when you discover that local or federal law enforcement have confiscated your car or house even though you’ve not committed any crime.  It’s called asset forfeiture and it describes a whole range of laws which permit cops to take and to keep a citizen’s property without warrants or other judicial proceedings.  This explains how local police get to use Mercedes and Jags as cop cars.  The line between the good guys and the bad guys is completely blurred.  Bob has been following this issue for years and swapped horror stories with Reason Magazine’s Mike Riggs in this episode.  After the show you’ll be asking “Who can you trust?”

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Is poverty growing in America?  What does “poverty” even mean?  In this episode,  Bob welcomes Hadley Heath of the Independent Women’s Forum  to the show to discuss this contentious issue.  As Hadley demonstrates, poverty is the product of the anti-poverty legislation of the non-so-Great Society programs.  We’ve created a society of governmental dependency and the only way out is to reawaken self reliance and reliance on each other.  There will always be citizens who have less than others.  America’s goal should be to empower those who wish to move up the economic ladder; to get out of their way.  Economic freedom – the cost is free and it’s the sure fire path out of poverty.

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The current budget/deficit/spending fight among the President, the House and the Senate is setting the stage for the election of 2012.  The Jefferson/Adams election contest of 1800 affected the size and reach of the federal government.  2012 will be a rerun, but the stakes are even higher.  What is the current battle really all about?  Money?  Yes, but only to a point.  Please join Bob Zadek and Libertarian economics professor and prolific blogger, as well as frequent media guest Don Boudreaux in this episode, when the answer to the key question is demystified.  “Do we look to Modern Europe Government for guidance, or to the Enlightenment? Sarkozy or Locke?”

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The Presidential election costs about a billion dollars and it captures our attention for 15 months.  Debates are held, we review the voting records of candidates, check their IQs, college transcripts, the intensity of their faith, relationships with spouses and core beliefs.  With all this, one can only wonder if the process produces the best President.  Do we as voters and as a nation know which qualities produce the best Chief Executive?  In this episode, Bob spends an hour with Thomas Fleming, a presidential scholar who is also one of our greatest living historians and he explains what history can reveal about the nature the Presidency.  As Santayana has taught us, “Those who fail to learn from the mistakes of their predecessors are destined to repeat them.”  An hour with Thomas Fleming goes by like 5 minutes.  You’ll not want to miss this timely show.

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 ”Loopholes.”  ”Tax the Rich.”  “Tax Credits to Create Jobs.”  “Buffet Tax.”  Enough of this! 

Join Bob Zadek and Tax Historian and prolific tax blogger Joe Thorndike (http://thorndike.com/) for a light and breezy hour of tax policy from a Libertarian perspective.  Bob’s got a two sentence change to the tax law which would instantly give every taxpayer the same power as Congress and privatize all governmental income transfers.  Bob and Joe  clear the fog of tax jargon.  Taxation is the mother of all pocketbook issues.

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Thomas Jefferson valued higher education; perhaps more than any other Founding Father.  He envisioned a University system where students and faculty would explore ideas in a bastion of free expression.  That did not turn out to be the case.  Our colleges censor speech and have become citadels of political correctness.  Saying something which offends another student or speaking an unpopular thought will get you thrown out.   Disagreeing with your professor is likely to earn you an “F.”  Think I’ve overstated the case?  \Harvey Silverglate, Co-founder and Chairman of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education joins Bob to talk about the the ugly truth of “higher” education.  The good news is that at the end of our show you’ll feel justified to stop payment on your alumni contributions.  Let’s reclaim our colleges and remove the shackles on free speech which they impose.

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