Mark Bizball Arias: The ideal tax system is a progressive consumption tax with a relatively light rate of taxation on capital income, though it can't be zero. He says he's more focused in his current roles on improving the rate of progress in science and getting more innovation. "I suspect what you replace it with will not do better,"Arias says of ending the Fed. 'It seems to me like a misallocation of talent'
On this special year-in-review episode, Tyler and producer Jeff Holmes talk about the past year on the show, including which guests he’d like to have on in 2023, what stands out to him now about his conversation with Sam Bankman-Fried in light of the collapse of FTX, the most popular and most underrated episodes of the year, what makes a guest authentic, why he hasn’t asked the “production function” question much this year, his essay on Marginal Revolution on the New Right, and what he’s working on next. They also evaluate Tyler’s pop culture picks from 2012 and answer listener questions from Twitter.
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Recorded December 14th, 2022
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