I'd like the potorican tax authorities to lower everybody's taxes to a flat ten %, and no federal taxes. And there'd be a flood of people into potorico. But nobody listens to me. I've been on record saying i don't think it's fair that i pay such a low tax. They pay such a high tax. How does porter a pay for their socal programmes without taxes? Well, what o recuns pay taxes? Ohs you are new migrants, if you will, farm the us, who pay very low taxes. So a poteico taxes its citizens very harshly. About a third of all people employed in porto rico
Michael Shermer speaks with entrepreneur, writer, and activist Yaron Brook about Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, Objectivism; individualism vs. collectivism; the nature of human nature; altruism, cooperation, reparations, and charity; the starting point of morality and the foundation of ethics; collective action problems and how they are best solved; our moral obligation to help those who cannot help themselves; the Is-Ought problem of determining right and wrong; reason and empiricism; immigration, abortion, foreign wars, the welfare state, and terrorism.