343. Timothy Redmond — Political Tribalism in America: How Hyper-Partisanship Dumbs Down Democracy and How to Fix It
The Michael Shermer Show
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The Right Tax Percentage
I've been playing around with the ideas of different kinds of truths empirical scientific truths religious truths that are kind of more mythological rather than reality based and maybe there's political truths although I'm conflicted about this right. If you have a young earth creationist that says the earth is 10,000 years old and geologist says it's four and a half billion years old you don't add them up and divide by two to get the answer right but maybe if it's like what's the right tax percentage for people that make a hundred thousand dollars or more pick Biden's number. To what extent do we have a moral obligation to help people that are down and out? We have to
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