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Yesterday, Senator Bernie Sanders introduced legislation to nationalize all publicly traded companies, kind of. The plan actually calls for the SEC to demand that all companies issue new stock and give employees at least 20% ownership of the companies. In addition to that, the workers will get "right of first refusal" to buy the companies. If they don't have the money to buy the company, don't fret. Bernie wants to create a new bank whose sole purpose is to finance the buying of US corporations. What happens if the worker doesn't pay back the loan from the government? They'll seize ownership of the asset. This creates numerous gross incentives in the business market. First, workers would naturally gravitate only towards corporations that are profitable, so they can earn dividends. Next, it will remove the risk from the market for creating businesses. Why? Because the government will always have a built in "bailout" for companies looking to sell out. The other obvious consequence in the market is that the per share value of all companies will fall. If you issue 20% more new shares in a company, then all the exiting shares become less valuable. That's a less valuable retirement portfolio for anyone paying into a 401K, Pension, IRA, etc. What does it mean to be an "owner" of a company? Since the workers are looking to share in the profits, will they also be willing to share the losses? After all, only 38% of publicly traded companies are profitable. I doubt they will be willing to pay a "negative dividend" if their company is losing money. What incentive does this create in our society for innovation and risk? You would now be able to be a business owner, without ever having to create a business. Will this lead to more innovation, or less? As usual, this is a completely crap proposal from BS. It will hurt the people it's aiming to help, and send our economy over the edge. Visit www.goodmorningliberty.us for more great articles on politics, economics, and Libertarian ideology. Visit www.BernieLies.com if you want to read specifically about the many lies told by one of America's greatest manipulators. Get your own "Bernie Lies" T-Shirt on our Etsy store. In Liberty, Charlie & Nate P.S. We can do this. Keep forging on through the disheartening news, and hate-filled rhetoric. We're here to #MakeLibertyWin --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/goodmorningliberty/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Over the weekend I came across a video from Rand Paul's appearance on The View. Rand fielded criticism of his support for Trump's decision to pull US Troops away from the Syrian border. We pulled several clips from the interview and offered up our comments on the rambling ignorance that is "The View." Can we talk about how crazy it is that we have a table of Liberals arguing with a Republican about how it's wrong for us to NOT be at war? It's clear people's opinions are mostly drawn from political biases, not from actual beliefs or principles. Not to mention the fact that now it seems like the Kurds have struck a deal with the Syrian government for protection, as they should have. It is not, and never has been, our job to police the entire world. Doing so it costly. Not just in money, but in over 6,000 American soldiers' lives. It's long past time for the governments on that side of the world to step up and get the job done. I'm pointing at you UK, Spain, France, Germany, etc. Visit www.goodmorningliberty.us for more great articles on politics, economics, and Libertarian ideology. Visit www.BernieLies.com if you want to read specifically about the many lies told by one of America's greatest manipulators. Get your own "Bernie Lies" T-Shirt on our Etsy store. In Liberty, Charlie & Nate P.S. We can do this. Keep forging on through the disheartening news, and hate-filled rhetoric. We're here to #MakeLibertyWin --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/goodmorningliberty/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Trump's decision to pull troops away from the Turkish border in Northern Syria has drawn massive amounts of criticism from both sides of the political isle. Is Trump the most Anti-War president we've had in my lifetime? Possibly. Let's dissect the problem between the Kurds, and the Turkish government. They've been fighting each other for decades. It must be acknowledged that the Kurds have been our only consistent ally in the fight against terrorist groups in the Middle East. What we just did will in fact lead to their demise, more than likely. We also have to acknowledge the fact that Turkey is a NATO ally. We can't fight Turkey, because that would technically open up the door for their allies to defend them. Who are their allies? Well, that's Canada, UK, France, Belgium, Germany, Spain, you get the idea. Maybe this is why George Washington warned against forming "entangling alliances?" Regardless of the implications, it's not America's job to protect people in the Middle East. It isn't now, and it never has been. We've been the World Police for far too long. We've wasted trillions of dollars, and lost almost 7,000 troops in the region. It's time for another country to step up. Perhaps one of the countries that are on that side of the world? England is only a couple thousand miles away, compared to the US, who are over 10,000 miles away. It's time to bring the troops home. Not just from the border in Northern Syria, but from all of the battle fronts in the Middle East. Tell your friends about the podcast. Subscribe, and share! Visit our website BernieLies.com for more great content taking about the narrative of Socialism. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/goodmorningliberty/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Bernie Sanders is the king of manipulated statistics. He always has been, and he's only getting better at it. You can check the article Bernie was pointing to for his latest claim here. The article itself debunks its own title, of course, at the end of the article: |||On the question of tax burden, Jason Furman, an economics professor at Harvard who chaired the White House Council of Economic Advisers under President Barack Obama, noted that Saez and Zucman did not include refundable tax credits, such as the earned-income tax credit (EITC), in their analysis. The credit, which is intended to encourage low-income families to work, "is part of the tax code," Furman said. A person who paid $1,000 in federal income taxes and then received a $1,500 credit would have a total federal tax burden of -$500, but Furman said that under Saez and Zucman's analysis, that person would instead show a burden of $0. That result would make total tax burdens at the lower end of the income spectrum appear higher than they are. ||| On its face, it looks to be true. It even sounds true, worded in a perfect manner that would make the best tricksters envious. What's playing in its favor is that people want it to be true. It is however, very false. Read the entire article at this link. Visit www.goodmorningliberty.us for more great articles on politics, economics, and Libertarian ideology. Visit www.BernieLies.com if you want to read specifically about the many lies told by one of America's greatest manipulators. Get your own "Bernie Lies" T-Shirt on our Etsy store. In Liberty, Charlie & Nate P.S. We can do this. Keep forging on through the disheartening news, and hate-filled rhetoric. We're here to #MakeLibertyWin --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/goodmorningliberty/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

AOC is at it again, again. As if the Green New Deal wasn't destructive enough, AOC pinpointed a few portions of the economy she forgot to destroy in her first $90+ trillion bill. Now she wants to institute a national rent control. Capping rental increases at no more than 3% per year. Not only is this a bad idea, it's also been a terrible reality for those living under strict rent control in places like New York, and San Francisco. Regardless of the intentions, Rent Control is a price control. Setting caps on free market prices has always led to shortages. In this case, the shortage would be (and has been) in housing. Thats nothing to joke about. When we control prices charged for rent, you might feel as though that's helping the people that can't afford higher prices. In fact, like most government policies, it hurts the very people it aims to help. Rent control leads to a decreased investment in housing. Those who have money to invest, have choices in the areas in which they want to invest their hard-earned money. In a free market, they may decide that the financial benefit of building apartment complexes outweighs the potential risks. Regardless of the feelings you had in reading that statement, it's the truth of the situation. In a price controlled market, people with money will choose to invest elsewhere. Prices must always be free to fluctuate. In a market where you've basically only allowed the prices to fluctuate down, you're going to get less investment, and subsequently less available housing. Such as we've seen in the case of housing shortages in cities that have strict laws on rental prices. In addition to that, she wants to move the poverty line to take into account your ability to afford "neccessities" like high-speed internet. This would undoubtedly, and by design, move hundreds of thousands if not millions more into the "poverty" category. Creating a much greater need for more welfare spending, and of course, high taxes. Let's all take a moment to appreciate the fact that we live in a society so great, that not having access to high-speed internet can make you "impoverished." As if that wasn't all destructive enough, she wants to officially make welfare available for everyone, regardless of their immigration status. This might be a trivial question, but does math even matter anymore? Is there any consideration for the fact that we literally cannot afford to make government welfare available for everyone in the world? By saying that I mean, there has to be a line drawn somewhere, right? Apparently not. Forget the fact that we already don't have enough money to fund the current liabilities with Social Security and Medicare- that apparently does not matter either. Will we ever have a return to rationality in politics? What does it say for our education system- when an entire section of society thinks you can pay out 10 trillion dollars worth of benefits with 4 trillion dollars worth of income? Welcome to 2019, America. Visit www.goodmorningliberty.us for more great articles on politics, economics, and Libertarian ideology. Visit www.BernieLies.com if you want to read specifically about the many lies told by one of America's greatest manipulators. Get your own "Bernie Lies" T-Shirt on our Etsy store. In Liberty, Charlie & Nate P.S. We can do this. Keep forging on through the disheartening news, and hate-filled rhetoric. We're here to #MakeLibertyWin --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/goodmorningliberty/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

President Trump said Thursday- "As the POTUS I have an absolute right, perhaps even a duty, to investigate, or have investigated, CORRUPTION, and that would include asking, or suggesting, other countries to help us out!" Today on the show we discussed whether or not it is the duty of the President to investigate corruption. This led into a conversation about Edward Snowden, Julian Assange, and what the governments policy towards whistleblowers should be. Did the Freedom/Patriot Act go too far? Yes. Does it violate the 4th Amendment? Yes. Listen to the podcast! Visit www.goodmorningliberty.us for more great articles on politics, economics, and Libertarian ideology. Visit www.BernieLies.com if you want to read specifically about the many lies told by one of America's greatest manipulators. Get your own "Bernie Lies" T-Shirt on our Etsy store. In Liberty, Charlie & Nate P.S. We can do this. Keep forging on through the disheartening news, and hate-filled rhetoric. We're here to #MakeLibertyWin --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/goodmorningliberty/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

What is Liberty? It's a rather cliche word that we use all the time, but when asked, I don't think many could give their definition of the word. Today I offered up my definition. I hope this helps. Liberty is YOU. It's everything that makes you a unique individual. It's your- thoughts words actions needs wants desires aspirations likes dislikes What you want to do in your life Who you spend your life with Who you worship and who you don't The important part to remember about "Liberty" is that it's you and everything that makes you, you. This liberty comes with a mutual understanding. Everyone else has that same liberty, too. Neither party may act in a way that impedes the other's ability to act on those things. Your liberty cannot not remove the liberties of another individual. In shorter words: Your Liberty ends, where another's begins. When we say we care about "Liberty." That's what we mean. That's why we're Libertarians. Visit www.goodmorningliberty.us for more great articles on politics, economics, and Libertarian ideology. Visit www.BernieLies.com if you want to read specifically about the many lies told by one of America's greatest manipulators. Get your own "Bernie Lies" T-Shirt on our Etsy store. In Liberty, Charlie & Nate P.S. We can do this. Keep forging on through the disheartening news, and hate-filled rhetoric. We're here to #MakeLibertyWin --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/goodmorningliberty/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The National Debt is growing like crazy. Let's talk about why that actually matters. First off, please subscribe to the show by clicking this link. Today we talked about America's National Debt. It's currently sitting at $22.7 trillion. That's a massive number, but what matters most is the interest on that debt. The interest is set to eclipse the military budget by 2025. It could actually grow past the current budget in the next 10-20 years. Some on both sides of the isle seem to think that it's just business as usual, so we're here to tell you that it isn't Visit www.goodmorningliberty.us for more great articles on politics, economics, and Libertarian ideology. Visit www.BernieLies.com if you want to read specifically about the many lies told by one of America's greatest manipulators. Get your own "Bernie Lies" T-Shirt on our Etsy store. In Liberty, Charlie & Nate P.S. We can do this. Keep forging on through the disheartening news, and hate-filled rhetoric. We're here to #MakeLibertyWin --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/goodmorningliberty/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We've spent $1.8 trillion on Foreign Aid over the last 50 years. This podcast dives into 8 other things we could have used American's money on (or not taken it in the first place). First off, please subscribe to the show by clicking this link. Today we uncovered the fact that $1.8T has been given to foreign governments over the last 50 years. What could we have done with that money here in the US? We could have chosen one of the following: Given $26 million to every homeless veteran. Given $2.8 million to ever homeless person. Built 25 walls on our southern border Listen to the episode to hear the rest! Visit www.goodmorningliberty.us for more great articles on politics, economics, and Libertarian ideology. Visit www.BernieLies.com if you want to read specifically about the many lies told by one of America's greatest manipulators. Get your own "Bernie Lies" T-Shirt on our Etsy store. In Liberty, Charlie & Nate P.S. We can do this. Keep forging on through the disheartening news, and hate-filled rhetoric. We're here to #MakeLibertyWin --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/goodmorningliberty/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hey everyone! First off, please subscribe to the show by clicking this link. Today we talked about a conversation we had with a Democratic Socialist. In the conversation, this person asserted that Amazon is essentially a "monopoly." This is a common theme thrown about by Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, and unfortunately it's a theme that has stuck with those on the left and even some of those on the right. What is a monopoly? Is it simply a large share of any given market? Or is it more complicated than that? For example, you might open the first tattoo shop in your small home town, but that doesn't necessarily mean you have a monopoly. Why? Because you aren't doing anything to keep other competitors from entering that market. In that same light, can we simply state that Amazon is a monopoly? A quick dive into the figures will show you that they only constitute 49% of all online retail sales, and an even smaller number, 5%, of a retail sales in general. Can we seriously state that a business that only makes up 5% of a total market is obviously a monopoly? Seems like more political theater and demagoguery to me. Visit www.goodmorningliberty.us for more great articles on politics, economics, and Libertarian ideology. Visit www.BernieLies.com if you want to read specifically about the many lies told by one of America's greatest manipulators. Get your own "Bernie Lies" T-Shirt on our Etsy store. In Liberty, Charlie & Nate P.S. We can do this. Keep forging on through the disheartening news, and hate-filled rhetoric. We're here to #MakeLibertyWin --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/goodmorningliberty/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hey everyone! First off, please subscribe to the show by clicking this link. Today we talked about a few comments we've had on our facebook page. One comment said "The love of money is the root of all evil." We'll explain why that is most definitely not true, if you're in a free market. In a free market, you only make money by providing value to others. So would you also say, "The love of providing value to others is the root of all evil?" Probably not. We also discuss another comment telling Socialists to "Get off their lazy a**es." While sometime this might be true, it is not the way to win an argument, and it's certainly not the way to grow the movement. Visit www.goodmorningliberty.us for more great articles on politics, economics, and Libertarian ideology. Visit www.BernieLies.com if you want to read specifically about the many lies told by one of America's greatest manipulators. Get your own "Bernie Lies" T-Shirt on our Etsy store. In Liberty, Charlie & Nate P.S. We can do this. Keep forging on through the disheartening news, and hate-filled rhetoric. We're here to #MakeLibertyWin --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/goodmorningliberty/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Today on the podcast, we once again discussed Greta Thunberg, and our opinion that she is the victim of mental abuse. Not from those on the right that are critiquing her, but by her parents, the leftists, and the media for raising her under the notion that her world will soon be destroyed. You can read our article laying out this point here. The other issue we discussed is a new study from the Environmental Working Group stating that as many as 100,000 cases of cancer could arise over a lifetime that are linked to contaminants legally found in your drinking water. The study's lead author said, "We want people to realize that water that meets legal specifications may still cause health risks based on the latest science." Ah, "the latest science...." I'm sure that prior to this study the science was "settled." If this is the case, do those suffering from related cancers have any legal redress against the government for providing water that causes cancer? Probably not. My thoughts immediately go to the famous Erin Brockovich story, where residents of Hinkley, CA sued PG & E for providing them with contaminated water. They received $400M in a class action suit, which applied here would mean someone is liable for around $40 billion in damages. If it is found that it is "the government" that is liable, then no one wins. Heck, even if the government did pay up, it would be with your money. Imagine if PG&E could have seized Hinkley's bank accounts to pay the settlement owed to the residents. Get the link to our podcast on your favorite podcast app here. Young Americans for Liberty is an amazing organization doing great work around the country on hundreds of college campuses. They've done great work organizing door-knocking campaigns for liberty-minded representatives around the U.S., and have an amazing goal to get 250 Liberty Legislators in office. See how you can help at this link. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/goodmorningliberty/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hey everyone! First off, please subscribe to the show by clicking this link. Today we talked about Netflix's new documentary on Bill Gates, and the "Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation." In the new documentary, Netflix details how Gates is using his massive wealth to eradicate diseases in Africa, and even how he effectively reinvented nuclear power technology. Gates, along with his wife, and billionaire investor Warren Buffet have combined their wealth to pursue philanthropy around the world. This is a great thing, and I think it sets the model for how other billionaires should use their massive stock piles of wealth. The other point that needs to be made is that all of the work they are doing would not be possible if not for the incentives created by Capitalism. Yes, Capitalism can indeed continue it's evil quest to continue saving the entire world. We also detail Gates' reinvention of Nuclear power. Nuclear is seen as dangerous by almost everybody. Even Gates admits that his battle is with "public perception." Why is that his battle? Because the government regulates the industry, and the government is known to bend to public perception, even when the public is flat out wrong. How could they be wrong? What about Fukushima, Chernobyl, and 3-Mile Island? Gates, along with a massive group of scientists, have completely reinvented Nuclear power. Their new plant emits 0 carbon emissions, and runs on an entirely different system than our current "slide-rule" era power plants. Using depleted uranium is just the start. They also developed a new way to cool the reactor using liquid metal, not the water based cooling system that has failed and caused the meltdowns in the past. All of the new innovations aside, Gates can't get around the Department of Energy's regulations on Nuclear power. One workaround to test the new plant was to build in China, a country that is still heavily invested in nuclear energy. That plan, however, was foiled by the recent trade war in which the Department of Energy refused to renew licenses for companies operating in China. Could Gates have actually solved the left's "Climate Crisis?" Maybe so. That begs the question: Why won't they acknowledge nuclear energy as a possibility. In speculation, I would say that liberals are reluctant to speak of solutions that don't require massive growth of government, and a massive hike in taxation. Visit www.goodmorningliberty.us for more great articles on politics, economics, and Libertarian ideology. Visit www.BernieLies.com if you want to read specifically about the many lies told by one of America's greatest manipulators. Get your own "Bernie Lies" T-Shirt on our Etsy store. In Liberty, Charlie & Nate P.S. We can do this. Keep forging on through the disheartening news, and hate-filled rhetoric. We're here to #MakeLibertyWin - Visit YALiberty.org to get involved in the movement. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/goodmorningliberty/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hey everyone! First off, please subscribe to the show by clicking this link. From our article: Yesterday, "Teen Activists" Jamie Margolin, and Greta Thunberg went in front of congress to berate them about doing nothing on the issue of Climate Change. They called Republican lawmakers "Shameful" and "Cowardly." Here's the problem: Kids don't know anything, other than what they've been told. That's why the left and the right so commonly spare over education. They are parrots. If you ask a kid to say something, and then turn the camera on, they'll say it. Children are now being used by the left to make cute videos about complex issues, and since it's a child talking- the content and the messenger are protected from criticism. This girl has not considered the economic repercussions of taking all of the money in our entire economy and putting it behind technology that isn't even fully developed. If this 17 year old girl were telling you that she loved her boyfriend and knew that they were going to spend the rest of their life together, your immediate response would be "sure kid, I get it, but you don't even understand how much you don't understand about relationships." It's actually a great representation of the ideological views on the left. Ignorantly spewing feelings, seldom backed by long term data, and wishing that no one could challenge your beliefs. Well, they have that outcome in using children. Visit www.goodmorningliberty.us to continue reading.. Visit www.BernieLies.com if you want to read specifically about the many lies told by one of America's greatest manipulators. Get your own "Bernie Lies" T-Shirt on our Etsy store. In Liberty, Charlie & Nate P.S. We can do this. Keep forging on through the disheartening news, and hate-filled rhetoric. We're here to #MakeLibertyWin --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/goodmorningliberty/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hey everyone! First off, please subscribe to the show by clicking this link. Today we talked about Walmart's new Health Center they recently opened in Dallas, GA, offering transparent pricing and cash deals that are unmatched at your regular doctor's office. $30 for your annual checkup? $115 for stitches? Count me in. We also discussed a news story out of Jonesboro, IL where a man has been convicted of murder for killing a trespasser on his property. Is it legal to "shoot on site?" The details get even crazier when you learn that he actually booby trapped a door with a shotgun, and was not on the property when the alleged burglar was killed. https://thebl.com/us-news/48-year-old-illinois-man-convicted-in-booby-trap-shotgun-killing.html What do you think? Should you have the right to kill on site? Visit www.goodmorningliberty.us for more great articles on politics, economics, and Libertarian ideology. Visit www.BernieLies.com if you want to read specifically about the many lies told by one of America's greatest manipulators. Get your own "Shall Not Be Infringed" T-Shirt on our Etsy store. In Liberty, Charlie & Nate P.S. We can do this. Keep forging on through the disheartening news, and hate-filled rhetoric. We're here to #MakeLibertyWin --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/goodmorningliberty/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hey everyone! First off, please subscribe to the show by clicking this link. Happy Constitution day everyone! Today we talked about the backwards way many view the Constitution these days..That is, that it's a list of rights that were given to us by the Government. This is of course not true, but why? What is the purpose of the constitution? Visit www.goodmorningliberty.us for more great articles on politics, economics, and Libertarian ideology. Visit www.BernieLies.com if you want to read specifically about the many lies told by one of America's greatest manipulators. Get your own "Bernie Lies" T-Shirt on our Etsy store. In Liberty, Charlie & Nate P.S. We can do this. Keep forging on through the disheartening news, and hate-filled rhetoric. We're here to #MakeLibertyWin --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/goodmorningliberty/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hey everyone! First off, please subscribe to the show by clicking this link. Today we talked about this weekend's biggest controversy. That's right, it's time to talk about Brett Kavanaugh again. Apparently the left are out of fresh talking points and would like your attention diverted to the ongoing "War on Women." We also discussed the real issue from the weekend. That's the bombing that took place on the oil fields in Saudi Arabia. The U.S. is of course blaming Iran, and is "locked and loaded" ready to do the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's bidding at the moment of their choosing. Why is it our job to conduct the first strike on Iran? Saudi Arabia has a military- a pretty big one. They actually spend 8x more money than Iran on their military. They are in fact the 3rd largest military in relation to GDP in the world, and #2 in relation to their Government budget. Saudi is a nation of 30 million people. That makes them matched with Canada and Australia in population size. Not exactly a tiny country that cannot be expected to defend itself. When we look at the desire for war held by those on the right, and even the left, we need to ask who we are defending, and why. Saudi Arabia has a terrible history when it comes to human rights. Their treatment of women is despicable. Women are still not allowed to travel or conduct business without permission from their male guardians. They only last year received the right to drive a car. They are not allowed to swear an oath in court- their male guardian must swear the oath. They have a deep and ongoing history of persecution against homosexuals, and women who step out of line. Why are we ready to send our son, daughters, fathers, mothers, brothers, and sisters, to die for them? Why are we so eager to die for them, when they have their own military? Why is it not on S.A. to retaliate against Iran? Visit www.goodmorningliberty.us for more great articles on politics, economics, and Libertarian ideology. Visit www.BernieLies.com if you want to read specifically about the many lies told by one of America's greatest manipulators. Get your own "Bernie Lies" T-Shirt on our Etsy store. In Liberty, Charlie & Nate P.S. We can do this. Keep forging on through the disheartening news, and hate-filled rhetoric. We're here to #MakeLibertyWin --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/goodmorningliberty/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hey everyone! First off, please subscribe to the show by clicking this link. Today we talked about last night's Democratic Debate. Join the podcast as we dissect the key moments that showcased the Economic ignorance we're up against. Visit www.goodmorningliberty.us for more great articles on politics, economics, and Libertarian ideology. Visit www.BernieLies.com if you want to read specifically about the many lies told by one of America's greatest manipulators. Get your own "Bernie Lies" T-Shirt on our Etsy store. In Liberty, Charlie & Nate P.S. We can do this. Keep forging on through the disheartening news, and hate-filled rhetoric. We're here to #MakeLibertyWin --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/goodmorningliberty/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hey everyone! First off, please subscribe to the show by clicking this link. Today we talked about price gouging. Here's a section from the article on our website- Each time a hurricane hits the United States, we are bombarded with reports of something known as "Price gouging." What is this common phenomenon? Those who put little thought into economics, and more thought into emotions, will say that price gouging is the raising of prices on necessities at a time when people need them the most. Most often it is at a time when people are buying things they cannot live without in the event of a major disaster. Take this headline from CBS as an example. "$9 for a $4 case of water: Florida hit by price gouging ahead of Hurricane Dorian" Let me first say that I understand the emotional reaction to this. It can, on the outside, look as if sellers are "taking advantage" of people in need, at a time when they have no choice but to the buy the products at whatever price they are available. In fact, it might be true that some individual business owners are taking advantage of the ability to reap higher prices than normal on basic necessities. My emphasis, however, is going to be placed on the economic implications of these actions, and the end result they produce. Back to that original headline; "$9 for a $4 case of water: Florida hit by price gouging ahead of Hurricane Dorian." What does it mean for a case of water to be worth $4? Most of us put little time into researching all of the expenses that go into the material cost of the case of water. In addition, we put little effort into finding out why that case has been deemed "worth" $4. The actual cost of the case to the store owner might have been $2.50. Why then, is it worth $4? It's a very simple answer: That's what people will pay for it. We put little thought into the fact that everything we use on a daily basis has been priced in a society-wide auction. You know how an auction works. The auctioneer holds up a product, and the public increases the price they are willing to pay for that product, until the top price is reached. It might not be obvious, but that same process has been used in every product we use on a daily basis. It hasn't happened on an individual level, but it has in fact happened. A product is being offered, and the seller has soug --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/goodmorningliberty/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hey everyone! We're both gone this week, but I wanted to release the audio version of an article from our website. Yes, the tax cuts were a good thing. An amendment to make them permanent would be even better I've read a few articles lately about how the "Tax Cuts and Jobs Act" of 2017 isn't having the desired effect. First, I'd ague that they have had a great effect on the economy, but let's dissect why they aren't looking as good in action as they did on paper. The Trump tax cuts were a big win for big corporations, as well as a big win for all the small corporations that we seem to ignore. The corporate tax rate was reduced from 35% to 22.5%, equaling a reduction of roughly 33% in the tax rate owed by businesses. Republicans branded this tax cut as a major win for America. It was going to lead to higher wages, more jobs, and the repatriation of funds and operations back to the good ole U.S. of A. Since the enactment of this law, we've seen reports of 3.9% business investment growth, but as we normally see afterwards, a revised number that sits around 3.1%. In addition to that, wages paid by companies seem to have shown little movement in the process. To me, this logic is simple. If you want to actually see the effects that were advertised by Republican's in the passage of this law, the tax cuts have to be made permanent. Imagine you are the owner of a business. You run on roughly an 8% net profit margin yearly (the average for a Fortune 500 company), and now you've seen a 33% reduction in your corporate tax rate. You have a few options: Raise your employees wages, Re-invest money in future innovation, or take the profit and run, among other things. There's an issue with expecting businesses to raise their wages in response to these cuts; they are temporary. How many times have you expected your wage to go down after your company's profit margin decreased? --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/goodmorningliberty/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hey everyone! First off, please subscribe to the show by clicking this link. We're both gone this week, but here's an audio version of an article from our website. 2 Reasons Bernie Sanders' Green New Deal is Actually Worse for America than Climate Change Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders released his plan for a $16.3 trillion spending package dubbed the "Green New Deal," blatantly stealing the name of the massive plan laid out earlier in the year by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. I spent several hours running through this plan line by line today, and arrived at a pretty simple conclusion: If you care about the environment, if you care about the poor, if you care about innovation, or the economic stability of the country, then you must consider the argument that the government is the worst possible entity to accomplish those goals. How could this be worse than climate change? Climate Change is a prediction of something that could potentially happen. The economic catastrophe created by this plan is a near certainty. Bernie's plan calls for a complete replacement of: The power grid all fossil fuels all automobiles all school buses all shipping vehicles (semis) all gas stations and nearly all roads Just in case you were wondering, the plan calls for all of this to happen in 10 years. https://anchor.fm/goodmorningliberty/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hey everyone! We're out of town for the week, but here's the audio version of an article from our website. The Statue of Liberty stands for Opportunity, and a Hand-Up | Not a guaranteed Hand-Out " Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door " - Emma Lazarus This poem, as wonderful as it is, has taken on a new meaning; applied by those on the left that wish to help those in need, by way of higher taxes, and increased wealth redistribution. The new meaning goes something like this: "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I will make sure that they are well taken care of by way of increased taxation on the most productive in our society." An NPR host called the original poem the "American Ethos." Although she was referring to the original poem, her meaning was implied in my sarcastic revision. So what does the Statue of Liberty stand for? The Statue of Liberty was a gift from the people of France (mostly) to commemorate the 100 year anniversary of our independence from Great Britain. I think the most important thing to note in the dedication of the statue was that it celebrated a time that we broke off from a tyrannical Kingdom that was taxing the people to death. "Taxation without representation" was one of the leading rally cries of the American colonies. Another very important thing to remember is that at the time of the statues dedication, there was no income tax in America. There was no welfare system. A simple fact such as this should easily make the case that in no way does the statue mean --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/goodmorningliberty/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hey everyone! First off, please subscribe to the show by clicking this link. Today I did a run through of a presentation we are giving at the Young American's for Liberty convention in Detroit later this month. We highly recommend you visit YALiberty.org to see how you can help the cause. My talk is about the psychology behind our political arguments that we all have on a daily basis. We often find ourselves feeling as though we are beating our heads against a brick wall, and that may in fact be what we are doing. We've all got different personalities. Some of us react more to sensitive and emotional arguments, and some of us react to logic-based objective arguments. The fact is, most of the country reacts to the emotional side of an argument. My goal is to think about how we as Libertarians can learn to tailor our topics to fit the mindset of normal people. It can be hard to do, but I believe that in doing this we can find a way to get others to consider our viewpoints. Visit www.goodmorningliberty.us for more great articles on politics, economics, and Libertarian ideology. Visit www.BernieLies.com if you want to read specifically about the many lies told by one of America's greatest manipulators. Get your own "Bernie Lies" T-Shirt on our Etsy store. In Liberty, Charlie & Nate P.S. We can do this. Keep forging on through the disheartening news, and hate-filled rhetoric. We're here to #MakeLibertyWin --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/goodmorningliberty/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hey everyone! First off, please subscribe to the show by clicking this link. Today on the podcast I talked about the ongoing trade war with China. As a libertarian/free market podcast, we cannot support tariffs on goods and services from other countries. However, I do believe that there are good reasons behind the actions taken on China. Those actions are when it involves Intellectual Property stolen from American companies. If the government has one job, it's to protect property, and to me that does extend to intellectual property. Let me ask the question. If President Obama said "I hereby order private American companies to..." What would have been your reaction? Mine is the same when it comes from Trump, as if it would have been if it came from Obama. Can you say the same? Visit www.goodmorningliberty.us for more great articles on politics, economics, and Libertarian ideology. Visit www.BernieLies.com if you want to read specifically about the many lies told by one of America's greatest manipulators. Get your own "Bernie Lies" T-Shirt on our Etsy store. In Liberty, Charlie & Nate P.S. We can do this. Keep forging on through the disheartening news, and hate-filled rhetoric. We're here to #MakeLibertyWin --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/goodmorningliberty/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hey everyone! First off, please subscribe to the show by clicking this link. Today I talked about my recent mistake of combing through Reddit for posts about the death of David Koch. What I found was truly disturbing. What does it mean as a society that we've got so many people that are willing to relish in the news of a billionaires passing? Are we heading down the same terrible path that lead to the destruction of Russia, and Germany in the early 1900's? Listen to the episode and tell me what you think. I think there's a way out, but it's not going to be easy, for any of us. Visit www.goodmorningliberty.us for more great articles on politics, economics, and Libertarian ideology. Visit www.BernieLies.com if you want to read specifically about the many lies told by one of America's greatest manipulators. Get your own "Bernie Lies" T-Shirt on our Etsy store. In Liberty, Charlie & Nate P.S. We can do this. Keep forging on through the disheartening news, and hate-filled rhetoric. We're here to #MakeLibertyWin --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/goodmorningliberty/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hey everyone! First off, please subscribe to the show by clicking this link. Today we interviewed State Representative candidate Vicky Rose. Vicky is running on the Libertarian Party ticket against an intrenched incumbent in District 37 of Mississippi. We originally met Vicky at the Young Americans for Liberty convention in Memphis, TN, and after listening to this interview you'll see why she made a great impression. On the podcast we discuss her proposals for change in everything involving national & state policies on education, your right to bear arms, criminal justice reform, tax policy, as well as many other issues facing the people of her district. Running against an incumbent can be hard, but she's up for the task. Like all political campaigns, this one needs your support in order to get the message out to her constituents. We've included a link to Vicky's website, where she spotlights her policy proposals, and is asking for your donation to get out the vote. Please consider a $5, $10, $20, donation to help with ads for her campaign. www.voteforvicky.com Visit www.goodmorningliberty.us for more great articles on politics, economics, and Libertarian ideology. Visit www.BernieLies.com if you want to read specifically about the many lies told by one of America's greatest manipulators. Get your own "Bernie Lies" T-Shirt on our Etsy store. In Liberty, Charlie & Nate P.S. We can do this. Keep forging on through the disheartening news, and hate-filled rhetoric. We're here to #MakeLibertyWin --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/goodmorningliberty/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hey everyone! First off, please subscribe to the show by clicking this link. Today I talked about the Obama's purchasing of a $15 million estate on Martha's Vineyard. I'm all for successful people buying the lavish things that they want, but is it the same when it's someone who spends their time talking negatively about others that do the same? Leonardo Dicaprio has put $5 million into a fund to help combat the wildfires in the Amazon Rainforest. This is a great example of those on the ideological left practicing what they preach. If only all of them did it, we might be living in a completely different society. Speaking of famous actors, why is it that when we hear of an actor like George Clooney making $235 million in 2018, we don't look at it in the same negative light as say the CEO of Walmart? Why is it when Taylor Swift makes a million dollars at a show, we don't compare her hourly wage to those that setup the stage lights or the sound? How did we shift into this weird hypocritical view of money making in our society? Visit www.goodmorningliberty.us for more great articles on politics, economics, and Libertarian ideology. Visit www.BernieLies.com if you want to read specifically about the many lies told by one of America's greatest manipulators. Get your own "Bernie Lies" T-Shirt on our Etsy store. In Liberty, Charlie & Nate P.S. We can do this. Keep forging on through the disheartening news, and hate-filled rhetoric. We're here to #MakeLibertyWin --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/goodmorningliberty/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hey everyone! First off, please subscribe to the show by clicking this link. Today on the show we talked about a murder trial from the '90's down in Texas that end with an execution last week. Needless to say, the prosecution brought questionable evidence, and the convicted murderer spoke of his innocence until his final words. If the government is inefficient, corrupt, and all to powerful, should we still allow the death penalty? We try to answer this difficult question on the first half of the podcast. Bernie Sanders' "Green New Deal" Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders released his plan for a $16.3 trillion spending package dubbed the "Green New Deal," blatantly stealing the name of the massive plan laid out earlier in the year by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. I spent several hours running through this plan line by line today, and arrived at a pretty simple conclusion: If you care about the environment, if you care about the poor, if you care about innovation, or the economic stability of the country, then you must consider the argument that the government is the worst possible entity to accomplish those goals. Bernie's plan calls for a complete replacement of: The power grid all automobiles all school buses all shipping vehicles (semis) all gas stations and nearly all roads It also promises to create 20 million new "high-paying" jobs, and eliminate unemployment. In the elimination of unemployment, it suggests that the need for a welfare state will dissipate, since everyone will have a high paying job. Of course, that's a high-paying job paid for with tax dollars, something that will first have to be stolen from the economy. Let me be clear. It is probably a bad thing to remove carbon from the ground, and place it into the air. Im not refuting that suggestion, but I will question the idea that we are nearing a "climate catastrophe." I'll also question the idea that this is purely man-made (can we call sexism on that term?), and that anything the United States does can have any effect on the situation. This plan seizes control of the entire energy sector, and promises to remove "greed" from the equation by leaving all power to be supplied by publicly owned companies. If Bernie has a room full of angels waiting to take the reins, I suggest he disperse them elsewhere immediately. This comes down to one question: Who is more effective at innovation, and efficiency- private entities, or the government? I could use the example of NASA vs. SpaceX. Through 60 years of innovation, NASA was able to get the cost of sending a satellite to space down to $600 million. To ad to that fact, they were producing new rockets with each launch. In 10 years, Elon Musk and SpaceX were able to reduce the cost of sending things into space down to $60 million. A tenth of the price if you don't have your calculator handy. In addition to that, they developed a way to fly the rockets back to the launch pad to save money. That wasn't enough.. They then produced a drone ship that would become a mobile landing pad for the rockets, since due to the arch of the launch and the rotation of the earth the rocket would be re-entering over water, and boat fuel is cheaper than rocket fuel. Think what you may about profit, but the motive for profit saves us money. Take into consideration the fact that in the Russians heyday, an automobile cost 3x as much to produce in the Soviet Union, even though profit was illegal. Remember, Henry Ford didn't invent the automobile. He simply found a way to mass produce it in a way t --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/goodmorningliberty/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hey everyone! First off, please subscribe to the show by clicking this link. I've read a few articles lately about how the "Tax Cuts and Jobs Act" of 2017 isn't having the desired effect. First, I'd ague that they have had a great effect on the economy, but let's dissect why they aren't looking as good in action as they did on paper. The Trump tax cuts were a big win for big corporations, as well as a big win for all the small corporations that we seem to ignore. The corporate tax rate was reduced from 35% to 22.5%, equaling a reduction of roughly 33% in the tax rate owed by businesses. Republicans branded this tax cut as a major win for America. It was going to lead to higher wages, more jobs, and the repatriation of funds and operations back to the good ole U.S. of A. Since the enactment of this law, we've seen reports of 3.5% GDP growth, but as we normally see afterwards, a revised number that sits around 2.8%. In addition to that, wages paid by companies seem to have shown little movement in the process. To me, this logic is simple. If you want to actually see the effects that were advertised by Republican's in the passage of this law, the tax cuts have to be made permanent. Imagine you are the owner of a business. You run on roughly an 8% net profit margin yearly (the average for a Fortune 500 company), and now you've seen a 33% reduction in your corporate tax rate. You have a few options: Raise your employees wages, Re-invest money in future innovation, or take the profit and run, among other things. There's an issue with expecting businesses to raise their wages in response to these cuts; they are temporary. How many times have you expected your wage to go down after your company's profit margin decreased? Probably never. How many times have you expected your pay to go up if the profit margins increased? Probably always. What the big corporations did was a mixture of those previous three options from above. Many corporations did raise wages in response to the tax cuts. Walmart comes to mind, who raised their minimum wage to $11 an hour for all employees. The bulk of the increased compensation came from bonuses paid to employees. Why would a business opt for a bonus, instead of a raise in their employee's wages? Simple. Yes they have the money for the increased wages now, but they know the tax cuts aren't going to last, and we all know that employees aren't going to be okay with a reduction in their wages when future President Kamala Harris raises the corporate tax rate to 70%. Therefore, they give out a bonus, en lieu of a pay raise. In addition to the missed increase in wages, we've also seen less "repatriation" and less increases in business investment. Why wouldn't the corporations opt for more repatriation and more investment? Once again, the answer is simple. Contrary to popular opinion, people who run businesses are pretty smart. They hear the rhetoric spewed by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Etc. It takes years to open a new facility, repatriate money, move plants, or any of the things people are waiting for them to do. If your time horizon is more than five years, would you trust that the business climate will be the same in five years as it is right now? No If you want these corporations to actually make investments in the U.S., to actually raise wages, or actually move their offshore accounts back to Bank of America, then you need to make the tax cuts permanent. Bottom Line. Visit www.goodmorningliberty.us for more great articles on politics, economics, and Libert --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/goodmorningliberty/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hey everyone! First off, please subscribe to the show by clicking this link. Hello, Friends. On today's podcast we talked about the hypocritical nature of flying around the world in a private jet to talk about the dangers of Climate Change. Prince Harry is taking flak for flying thousands of miles in his own private jet, only to arrive and tell others about the evils of carbon emissions. When will those who support a cause actually start practicing what they preach? Apparently they expect everyone else to make sacrifices that they themselves are not willing to make. Listen to today's episode for all the details! Visit www.goodmorningliberty.us for more great articles on politics, economics, and Libertarian ideology. Visit www.BernieLies.com if you want to read specifically about the many lies told by one of America's greatest manipulators. Get your own "Bernie Lies" T-Shirt on our Etsy store. In Liberty, Charlie & Nate P.S. We can do this. Keep forging on through the disheartening news, and the hate-filled rhetoric. We're here to #MakeLibertyWin --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/goodmorningliberty/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hey everyone! First off, please subscribe to the show by clicking this link. Today we discussed this weekend's clash between members of ANTIFA and member of the "Proud Boys." Antifa claims to stand against Fascism, but they stand against that fascism with the use of violent Communism. Throughout history, neither of those ideologies have been beneficial for the ordinary individual. It's time for law enforcement in Portland, OR to step up and arrest these people. We fully support your right to protest, but if you are removing rights from others, then you need to be subjected to the full extend of the law. If government has one job, it's to make sure that we are all safe, and it's clear innocent bystanders in Portland are not safe. We also discussed our local high school back home in Illinois, and their decision to subject students to random drug screenings. The administration of Vienna High School has announced plans to conduct randomized drug screenings on their student body. The plan will assign a number to each student, and randomly draw numbers throughout the year. Let me first say that we absolutely agree that teenagers should not be doing drugs, and we appreciate the intent behind this new policy. However, these drug screenings should not be mandatory. Meaning, the students' parents should have the right to opt their children out of the program. As of right now, "consent" will be considered as participation in extra-curricular activities, or driving your own vehicle to school. The implied consent by participation in extra-curricular activities is closer to agreeable in my book, being that it is your choice to join or not join those activities. On the contrast, implied consent by way of "you drive your car to school" is further out of bounds, considering the fact that you are faced to attend the school. Were this a private school implementing the policy, I would be 100% on board, since you chose to attend that school. There's a fine line being treaded with this policy. On one hand, it's morally defendable that this policy be included in your child's schooling, but on the other, it's removing your right as a parent to consent to your child being swabbed, or to their urine being collected by school officials. To me, it's not obvious that this policy will have the desired effect. When I was in high school, it was considered "cool" to break the rules. Any seemingly arbitrary rule was a target for rebellion among the students. Your "cool" points were likely to go up if you found ways around them, potentially leading to a higher social status. Sometimes, we broke rules that we would have not otherwise broken, if they weren't rules. I would be slightly worried of an adverse effect from this new policy. That is, the possibility that students will attempt to break this rule, when they might not otherwise have participated in the dangerous acts in the first place. Responsibility We talk a lot about responsibility on our podcast. In our eyes, the refusal to accept responsibility in all facets of life has lead to the societal situations we see playing out in politics right now. When do the responsibilities of the parents end, and the responsibilities of the schools begin? In my eyes, this is yet another attempt to remove parental responsibilities from parents, and place them on arbitrary rules set by government (the school). If I were a parent, I would sign a consent for if given the opportunity by my child's school. That however does not mean that I believe all the other children should be forced to do so. Drug testing kits ca --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/goodmorningliberty/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hey everyone! First off, please subscribe to the show by clicking this link. Today we talked about the stock market, and this weeks "inverted yield curve." What the heck does that even mean, and why should it matter to you? We'll recap the various calls for more gun control this week by those on the left, and the right. Is there any hope for the 2nd Amendment? The election is over a year away, but the campaigns are in full swing. Which Democratic candidate will come out on top? Thanks for listening, and thanks for sharing the show. Visit www.goodmorningliberty.us for more great articles on politics, economics, and Libertarian ideology. Visit www.BernieLies.com if you want to read specifically about the many lies told by one of America's greatest manipulators. Get your own "Bernie Lies" T-Shirt on our Etsy store. In Liberty, Charlie & Nate P.S. We can do this. Keep forging on through the disheartening news, and hate-filled rhetoric. We're here to #MakeLibertyWin --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/goodmorningliberty/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Subscribe to the podcast! Today on the show we discuss last nights police shooting in Philadelphia. Six officers were shot in a drug bust gone wrong, and democrats wasted no time using this as a call for gun control. The used it as a call for gun control, even though the police were raiding this guys house because he was selling drugs- something that's been illegal for decades. That's ironic. "We should make guns illegal so this doesn't happen, but yet drugs are illegal and this guy was a known drug dealer." On top of that, he had multiple convictions. He wasn't even legally allowed to own a gun! Listen to the podcast to get the full take on the left's ongoing push for more gun laws. Visit www.goodorningliberty.us for articles debunking socialism, and promoting capitalism. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/goodmorningliberty/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hey folks! Today's podcast episode had to do with the Statue of Liberty. I wanted to talk about this in light of recent discussions on the poem used in front of the statue, and the idea that we are supposed to take care of people in need. Of course we are supposed to take care of people in need, but I think the government taking money from those who have it and giving it to those that don't is very different. At the time the Statue was placed, we did not have a welfare system in the United States, so it literally can't mean that. Listen to the episode, and give it a share! visit www.goodmorningliberty.us for more articles on Liberty, Economics, and Politics. Thanks, Nate --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/goodmorningliberty/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Illinois doesn't get a lot of things right. Their population is rapidly decreasing, their taxes are rapidly increasing. Their pension is severely underfunded, and they're slowly but surely filling up federal prisons with former governors. Of all the mistakes they routinely make, it's clear they always execute one thing properly: really terrible economic decisions. The new law that takes effect for the 2020-2021 school year fits right in with what seems to be an ongoing theme in Illinois- make prices artificially high. Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed a new law requiring high school seniors to fill out a FAFSA application before being allowed to graduate high school. That is, they are no required to apply for college financial aid to be able to graduate. Proponents of the law say that this is a great way to encourage students to pursue higher education after high school. My own opinion is that it's a way to encourage students to go into debt, and a great way to keep prices high on college tuition. Why is this a bad thing? The other basic economic incentives this creates are also pretty cut and dry. The more money you make artificially available for a product, they higher price that product will have. Laws like this artificially increase demand, and they make use of money that would not otherwise be available in a free market. In addition, financial aid is not guaranteed to cover the entire cost of college. Therefore, many people who can least afford it, are likely to be going into debt when they otherwise would not have. Read the rest of the article Visit our merch store Subscribe to the podcast --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/goodmorningliberty/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This weekend, I spent some time reading through Senator Marco Rubio's bill to create a Federal "Red Flag" law. The "Threat Assessment, Prevention, and Safety Act of 2019," opens the door to massive intrusion into our natural rights as human beings to defend ourselves; whether it be against a home invader, or (as the founding fathers intended), a tyrannical government. Rubio's bill establishes "a collaborative, multi-disciplinary, and multi-jurisdictional behavioral threat assessment and management process on a Federal, State, local, and Tribal level." Here's the idea- We've seen far too many mass-shootings in recent years across the United States. Some of these mass shootings, a very small amount, could have perhaps been prevented. Shooters like the individual in Parkland, and recently the individual in El Paso, showed some signs of potential violent threats on innocent members of the public. The aim of a "Red Flag" law is to take these possibilities for violence into consideration, and consider confiscating all firearms from those individuals, or ban them from purchasing any firearms for an indefinite future. Read the rest of the article at www.goodmorningliberty.us Pick up a "Shall Not Be Infringed" T-shirt at this link. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/goodmorningliberty/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

What's up everyone? Today is Ask Me Anything Friday! We took questions and topic suggestions from our social media audience to discuss on today's show. We covered: Trump considering the pardon of former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich. How leaving the gold standard has affected your life though inflation and devaluation of our money. Are we in the "End Times?" NPR ran a story suggesting that rivers be given the same rights as human beings.. Thanks for listening! Have a great weekend. Grab your own "Bernie Lies" t-shirt from our merch store! Subscribe to the podcast. Visit www.BernieLies.com for more great articles on these topics. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/goodmorningliberty/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Last night New York Mayor Bill De Blasio did an interview with Sean Hannity on Fox News. There aren't many ways to describe it, other than this- It was absolutely disgusting. De Blasio defended his plans for gun control, higher taxes, "meatless Mondays," and battling climate change. Here are the notes from our podcast episode. Gun Rights It's pretty clear that De Blasio does not think you have a right to defend yourself. Hannity pressed him several times on that issue, and he had a tough time answering the question. What he did say is that you have a right to be "safe." What does it mean to have a right to be "safe?" This is absolutely no knock on law enforcement, but they rarely keep you safe from home invasions. Actually, it would be near impossible for them to do so. The simple question needs to be asked.. If someone breaks into your house, do you have the right to defend yourself? De Blasio's answer on this question is an obvious "no." CEO Pay The "left" often uses CEO pay when talking about the failures of our free market system. What is the point in making this comparison? "The CEO makes 1-2-400X more than the average worker." The point of this statement is to insinuate that people are struggling in todays society because of Greed. If the CEO wasn't making so much money, the workers at the company would be able to be paid more, right? Wrong. Let's take one of the most hated CEO's in the world, Doug McMillon (WALMART), for example. He makes $22 million per year. Workers at Walmart start out at $11 per hour. Walmart has 2.2 million employees. Each employee is paying $10 per year to the CEO. In hours? That's roughly $.01 per hour worked (at 25 hours per week on average). So what if we decide to pay the CEO the same as everyone else in the company? If they are all at $11 per hour, evening out the payment between everyone would raise their pay to...wait for it...$11.01 per hour. CEO pay is a non-issue, no matter how unfair it may seem. It is absolutely not a factor when discussing the pay of the average employees. We need to go back to the 1950's tax rates Ah, the good ole days. It is true that in the 1950's, the top marginal tax rate was 91%. That rate was on income above the $200,000 mark ($2 Million in todays money). The catch? Only 10,000 households qualified for that tax. In the 1950's, the effective tax rate was actually only 42%. Today it's 37%, with a MUCH lower marginal rate. Meaning that the top tax rate does not matter. Most of the rich are rich because they are smart. They'll find a way to get around it. They are smarter than the government, a low bar, indeed. The "rich" 1% are still paying nearly half of all the taxes in the US. Yes, even though they only account for 1% of the workers, they pay half the taxes. That number, by the way, has gone up- not down, since the lowering of the tax rates. "You didn't build that." Perhaps the most infuriating part of De Blasio's interview with Hannity came at the 16:00 mark, when he stated that the workers are the ones that created the wealth, not the business owner. This is pure socialism, and it's absolutely wrong. If you'd like, trace back the origins of any business. Did it start by 600,000 people banding together, pooling their resources, to form Amazon.com? No, it started with Jeff Bezos packing books into boxes on his floor in his house. The workers have a job because the owner started the business. Risked the capital. Put in 100 hours a week for years on end while only losing money in the process. If socialists want to start a business, they are absolutely free to do --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/goodmorningliberty/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Listen to the podcast at this link, or view the article on our website www.bernielies.com Yesterday, Bernie Sanders gave an interview on the very popular Joe Rogan Experience podcast. After suffering through 31 minutes of the interview, we pinpointed 9 grossly manipulative statistics commonly spewed by B.S. 1. "Healthcare is a yuman right" People need proper healthcare, don't get us wrong. With that in mind, can you say that healthcare is a "right?" What does it mean to have a right to something? You have a right to life, right? But that only means that you have a right to not have that life taken from you by an outside actor. The right to life does not mean that you have the right to force a doctor to perform a service for you. You would think that the right to life would mean that you also have a right to food(considering 100% of the population would die without food). Do you have a right to food? No. Don't believe me? Try going into your local grocery store, filling up your cart, and then leaving. Better yet, go to your local farmers land, and pick any amount of food you need. Then leave. You have the right to not be killed, but you do not have the right to force a service provider to perform a service for you. It is a basic principle that you cannot have a "right" to someone else time. That's called slavery. 2. "Canada's healthcare costs are half as much as the United States" It is true that their total "costs" reported per capita is half. But what is behind the costs that are reported? In the US it is common place to receive a bill for $25,000 from just the surgeon on a medical procedure. Who pays that $25k? No one. In reality, the hospital or the surgeon are going to write a large portion of that expense off. If it isn't written off, they must have received a payment from the insurance company, but the insurance has a "contractual adjustment" on that bill- meaning they don't pay the full amount. The problem? That $25k is the price used in Bernie's statistic. In reality, total out of pocket costs for healthcare in 2017 was $318 billion. Far less than the $3.5 trillion statistic used by do-gooder politicians. Healthcare is too expensive, but experience has shown us that US government is not the entity to resort to if you want to decrease the cost of something. 3. His fight is stifled because lobbyists for drug companies are spreading misinformation. No. The bulk of people disagree with Bernie's plan because we all have access to a calculator on our phones. 4. Costs are up because of profit- last year the top 10 drug companies made $69 billion. Blaming "profit" for higher costs is a long-time go to for socialists/marxists. "Bloodsuckers, vampires, plunderers of the people and profiteers who fatten on famine." Vladamir Lenin prior to killing upwards of one million "Kulaks" in 1920's Russia. The $69 billion in profit made by the drug companies sounds like a lot of money, and it is, but it is absolutely nothing in relation to the cost of healthcare. If you were going to use the $3.5 trillion number used by Bernie sanders, then the profit of the drug companies represents .00001 of the cost in healthcare. 1/10,000th of the cost. Literally Elizabeth Warren is more Native American than drug companies' profit is a portion of healthcare costs. That's $197 for each person in the US last year. People are not struggling because the drug companies made $197 in profit from their drugs. In relation, you probably pay $130 per year just for Netflix. 5. Medicare has been a success, and people love it. If you look at a graph of healthcare expenditures year over year, you'll see the price line skyrocket --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/goodmorningliberty/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Today we talk about the mass shootings that took place in Dayton, OH, and El Paso, TX over the weekend. Guns have once again taken center stage, and the government like always has a "solution" for every problem- You just need to give them more control. We go over the problems in society from depression, hate, divisiveness, and a lack of personal responsibility. Read our article debunking the 10 most common gun control proposals at this link. Subscribe to the podcast at this link Visit our "Bernie Lies" merch store at this link. Share the show, and we'll see you again tomorrow. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/goodmorningliberty/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hey folks! Today we talked with our longtime friend Dustin Sendejas about his time in the music industry, and his ideas on where we are as a country in general. Find Dustin's group "Little Ghost" on iTunes, Spotify, or any other music streaming app of your preference. Grab some BernieLies.com merch on our Etsy store! As always, subscribe to the podcast, and check out www.goodmorningliberty.us for more content. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/goodmorningliberty/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Gender Pay Gap During the debate, the question about how we address the perceived gap in wages between men and women went to Kamala Harris. She went on to state the statistic that we've all heard before, and that we've likely seen discredited several times. "Women are paid $.80 on the dollar. Black women $.61, Native American women $.58, Latina women $.53. These are common statistics used by many on the left to show that discrimination by men is alive and well in the United States. The only problem is - they are completely misrepresented statistics. Let me be clear, I am not arguing that on the whole women are making the same money as men. In fact, if you look at those numbers speaking on total earnings by men, and total earnings by women, they are probably true. The problem is that those statistics are being used by politicians to make the case that men are still dominantly discriminating against their female counterparts. In truth, that isn't what those statistics show at all. What those statistics show is that when one gender tends to gravitate towards lower paying fields, that gender will be correctly represented as making a lower amount of money. That statement my be inconvenient, but it is not evidence that our society is a male dominated discriminatory patriarchy. It is evidence that if more women go into lower paying fields such as teaching or social work, and more men go into fields like Information Technology or Engineering, men are likely to have higher average earnings. Differences in career choices To take an honest look at whether or not discrimination is a remaining factor, we must first separate the variables in the equation. One of those variables is career choice. It is not enough to simply say "women make less than men" without considering the different occupations each of the respective genders gravitate towards. Would it make sense to say that "Social Workers make less than Chemical Engineers, therefore we have evidence that there is rampant gender discrimination in the US..?" No, it sure wouldn't, yet that's what politicians are basically saying. I'm not saying that women don't go into engineering, and men don't go into social work, but the data are certainly clear that there are differences in the career choices made by each gender by en-large. Let's look at a study from the American Association of University Women (AAUW), which measured median pay for the 15 majors most highly dominated by each gender. https://anchor.fm/goodmorningliberty/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Last night's Democratic Presidential Debate was more of the same. You hold no responsibility for the consequences of your life decisions. Bernie wants to raise taxes for "Medicare for All," but Elizabeth Warren refuses to say the words "raise taxes..." Unless she was talking about the evil billionaires and corporations. Why was she singling out billionaires? Because of course, she's a multi-millionaire. We'll talk about Bernie, Warren, and Delaney's spar over Medicare for All vs Mo-Bamacare. Subscribe to the podcast at this link. Grab your "Bernie Lies" T-Shirt at the new merch store! Visit www.BernieLies.com for great articles --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/goodmorningliberty/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Today we discuss our take on this story out of Chattanooga, TN View the full story at this link. A woman has been charged after going into labor prematurely while high on ecstasy. The twins died shortly after birth with drugs in their system. This story highlights the subjective principles in the abortion debate. Tennessee has a law superseding the US Supreme Court when defining "fetus viability." TN defining at 23 weeks, and the Supreme Court in Roe v. Wade defining viability at 26 weeks. In addition to the legal standards, we have the moral principle in killing an unborn child. The situation gets muddied up when you realize that if this woman had gone to Planned Parenthood that morning to have an abortion, and then went out to party, she presumably would not be charged with murder - Even though the same end-result would be the case (the death of two unborn children). Subscribe to the podcast, and tell a friend! Read more at www.goodmorningliberty.us --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/goodmorningliberty/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Yesterday Rand Paul and Mike Lee forced a bill delay on the 9/11 First Responders bill. This bill allowed an unlimited amount of funding for 9/11 first responders and their families for the next 72 years. The media, left wing, and right wing, have portrayed this as a blocking of the bill. They have portrayed this as stopping money from going out to the responders themselves. The Problem? That isn't true at all. What Rand Paul did, as he did with the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, was force a vote on and amendment adding something called a "Pay For" into the bill. What most people don't know is that originally, there was something called a "Pay-Go" provision in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. That meant that the next step following the tax cuts was to cut spending in the budget to meet a potential reduction in income. Speaking of a reduction in income, the tax revenue as a percentage of the Federal tax receipts has increased since the passage of the tax cut. That's right, they cut taxes and are taking in more money. Rand Paul himself said in an interview with Neil Cavuto, that the 9/11 bill will still come to a vote next week, and it will pass. All he asked was to add an amendment to the bill saying that the money needed to come from another part of the Governments +$4,200,000,000,000 budget. He named ceasing funding for a study that is studying the sex habits of Japanese Quail while high on cocaine. He suggested we cease funding for a study that looks at whether or not you are likely to eat something off of a buffet when you've seen the person in front of you sneeze on the food. I would suggest we look at taking the billions in foreign aid we give to countries like Pakistan, Syria, Jordan, etc., and reallocate that to the 9/11 First Responders Fund. Is the media uproar over Paul and Lee's principled stand just a convenient continuation of rhetoric stating that Republican's are evil? --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/goodmorningliberty/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Today I gave my views on the current immigration crisis. Regardless of what has been played in the news, I do not believe that Republicans are against illegal immigration because they inherently hate brown people. My firm belief is that it is the Income Tax that is the major hold up for a viable solution on immigration. The very fact that someone can come here, and receive services that are paid for with someone else money, is the reason that most people have big problems with illegal immigrants. Subscribe to the podcast! visit www.bernielies.com www.goodmorningliberty.us --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/goodmorningliberty/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The student loan debt crisis might be the biggest problem facing our nation in the years to come. The total debt sits around $1.6 trillion right now. Several politicians, including Senator Bernie Sanders, have proposed plans to "cancel" student debt, and make all college tuition free. There are a couple things we need to get out of the way. First off, the government has been involved in the subsidization of student loans since 1958, with the passage of the National Defense Education Act. At that time, the governments involvement was limited to college degrees including science, technology, math, or engineering. It should come as no surprise that it only took 7 years for the feds to decide they needed more than just control over the STEM fields. In 1965, they passed the Higher Education Act. The stated goal of the HEA was to promote "greater social mobility". The HEA has been the doorway to the federal government's full involvement in college education. At that time, they were able to start subsidizing or guaranteeing all student loans. The cost of college began to rise with the involvement of government subsidies, as we've seen in most other industries (look at a graph of medical costs following the passage of Medicare). As you would read in Basic Economics by Thomas Sowell, the artificial demand created by government stimulus resulted in a shortage of supply, leading to higher prices. Your high school economics lessons will teach you that creating a virtually unlimited demand will cause higher prices 100% of the time. Although the cost of degrees were already on the rise, the greatest acceleration happened in 2010, when the government completely took over the student loan process with the Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act. That title definitely hits the top 10 most "Ironic Congressional Act" titles in my book. It's right up the with the "Affordable Care Act," and "No Child Left Behind." Up to this point, private institutions were still involved in the lending process, but all loans given by private lenders were guaranteed by the US Government. The housing market crisis comes to mind with that last statement. In the graphs below, you'll see the massive spike in student loan debt, corresponding with the 2010 year mark- the first year private institutions had been removed from the student loan ma --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/goodmorningliberty/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hey folks! Charlie is gone again today, but I wanted to share my thoughts on a study released by Bloomberg today, showing that Firefighters are the most satisfied people in the US when it comes to their job. There are ways for you to find "happiness" or meaning with your career, without taking the choice to become a firefighter. I'll run through a few of those, and hopefully you can find out that whatever it is you are doing, it is very important to society. I eventually spent the last 10 minutes talking about the idea of "Scandinavian style Socialism" being suitable for the USA, so don't miss that part. Subscribe to the show so you don't miss any new episodes! Visit www.bernielies.com or www.goodmorningliberty.us for more articles! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/goodmorningliberty/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It's that time of year again. It's Amazon Prime Day. As a Free-Market Capitalist, you have to rejoice in the fact that this day exists. You can literally buy everything you need on Amazon, and have it delivered to your house in two days. Sometimes, you can have it delivered in as little as two hours. We have to sit back and ask the question, "Why does this exist?" Well, put simply, it exists because someone wanted to make money. Maybe that sounds selfish or greedy, but that's only if you have a negative view of money, itself. Money, as always, is a representation of value that you have provided to others. In a free-market system, that is. If you pay $1 for a cup of coffee, it is only because you value that cup of coffee more than you valued the dollar. On the flip side, the vendor only sold you the coffee because they valued the dollar more than they valued the coffee. As simple as it is, that small example works for all things in a free-market economy. If you hold the above view of money, then you are less likely to look down upon the desire to make money by starting your own business. As long as you are operating in a free economy, you would only be able to make money by providing products or services that the population value. If it wasn't deemed valuable, you would never make the money. So now we arrive back at the fact that someone started Amazon to make money. Good! As a study on the effects of Walmart found, the average American family saves over $2,500 per year simply because Walmart exists, whether they shop at Walmart or not. How? All of the competing retailers and grocery stores must find ways to lower their costs/prices so they remain competitive with Walmart for your business. We see the same thing with Amazon. In our podcast episode, we detail out the amazing fact that today and tomorrow, not only do you have the option to shop at a large discount at Amazon, but Target and Walmart are both running massive online sales to compete with Amazon for your business. This means that Amazon is saving you money, even if you don't have a Prime membership, or shop at Amazon.com for any of your goods. That's the amazing part about Capitalism and the Free-Market. No government issued an order today stating that Amazon must lower their prices, and no regulative body issued an order stating that Walmart and Target must lower their prices to match Amazon. That's the power of a free and competitive market. So who wins in this scenario? Well certainly Jeff Bezos and thousands of other Amazon investors, but also the hundreds of millions of people that use Amazon, Walmart, and Target. The economy as a whole wins because the opportunity to allocate dollars to more efficient uses has now presented itself. The rest of the beauty? You don't have to shop at Amazon today, or tomorrow. You can spend more elsewhere, make your own products, or buy from a local vendor. Amazon is not forcing you to use their services. They want you to use their services, and they are offering you a better quality of life for doing so. That's Free-Market Capitalism- and it's freaking beautiful. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/goodmorningliberty/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

So many things to talk about today.. Subscribe to the podcast! Should the US Census require an answer on citizenship? Republicans think so. We'll discuss our libertarian conundrum on this one. Also, how about regulating cryptocurrencies? Has the government shown that it should be trusted to regulate financial industries? What about the $200 trillion in unfunded liabilities currently weighing on our currency? Social media companies are treating conservatives unfairly, that's obvious. But do you want the US government in control of those companies or their content? What about when there's a democrat in charge? Seems dangerous.. The CBO released it's study on the minimum wage, and it wasn't good. Unless you're a liberal, in that case, it was great. Is it okay to trade a 5% gain in "Real family income" for 1.3 million people losing their jobs? Probably not. Subscribe to the podcast, and as always, visit www.goodmorningliberty.us www.bernielies.com --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/goodmorningliberty/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices