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Are Taxes the Price We Pay for Civilization?

  • Thu, April, 15, 2010
  • Reason.tv
  • Dateline: Washington DC

"Taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society," said legendary Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. As students of Buck v. Bell could tell you, Holmes had a habit of being monstrously wrong, but if he's right about taxes and civilization, it's certainly worth asking whether we're getting what we pay for.

Tags: Tea Party, Jobs, taxes, Wealth Redistribution, Socialism

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Reason.tv Nanny of the Month

  • Mon, November, 15, 2010
  • Reason.tv
  • Dateline: San Francisco

"You can market carrots!" Reason TV announces that Eric Mar is the Nanny of the Month for banning toys in Happy Meals.

Tags: Government Regulations, food justice, nanny

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Cable Pundits on the Giffords Shooting

  • Wed, January, 19, 2011
  • Reason.tv
  • Dateline: Arizona

A telling compilation of the varied comments of various pundits on the Arizona tragedy.

Tags: Mainstream Media

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3 Reasons Public Sector Employees are Killing the Economy

  • Sun, March 21, 2010
  • Reason.tv
  • Dateline: Washington, DC

As unemployment lingers near 10 percent, Reason.tv is urging people to think about this: The one part of the economy that's "going gangbusters" is government work.

Tags: Jobs, Budget and Government, Jobs and Economy, Stimulus

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3 Reasons the New Financial Regs Won't Fix Anything

  • Thu, July, 15, 2010
  • Reason tv
  • Dateline: Washington, DC

Congress is about to pass a useless financial reform bill.

Tags: Congress, Government Regulations, Fiscal Responsibility, Fannie/Freddie

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How Did GM Pay Back its Bailout "in Full and Ahead of Schedule?" Well, it Didn't

  • Mon, May, 03, 2010
  • Reason.tv
  • Dateline: Cleveland, IL

Do you remember when you were a kid and your parents gave you $20 to buy them a Christmas present? You bought them something worth $3 and pocketed the rest? That's what GM has just done.

Tags: bailout

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Tax Facts to Make Your Head Explode

  • Wed, April, 14, 2010
  • Reason.tv
  • Dateline: Washington DC

Is it patriotic to pay taxes? And if so, who the most patriotest Americans? Who are the least? How many words are in the tax code? How much do patriotic Americans pay to prepare their taxes? How long do you have to work in a year to earn enough to pay your taxes? The answers to these and other questions add up to one big W-2 WTF.

Tags: Budget and Government, Property Rights, taxes, Wealth Redistribution, Crazy

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More Taxes or More Jobs? California Shows We Can't Have Both

  • Mon, April 12, 2010
  • Reason.tv
  • Dateline: Los Angeles, CA

It's hard to find a politician who isn't eager to "do something" about high unemployment. Turns out California has found one way to save and create certain kinds of jobs—spend like mad and raise taxes.

Tags: Jobs, Budget and Government, Jobs and Economy, taxes, California, Arnold Schwarzenegger

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More Taxes or More Jobs?

  • Thu, April, 15, 2010
  • Reason.tv
  • Dateline: Sacramento CA

More Taxes or More Jobs? California shows you can't have both. It's hard to find a politician who isn't eager to "do something" about high unemployment. Turns out California has found one way to save and create certain kinds of jobs—spend like mad and raise taxes.

Tags: Jobs, Jobs and Economy, taxes, Wealth Redistribution

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Who We Talked to at the "One Nation" Rally: Rangel, Sharpton, Jackson & More

  • Wed, October, 06, 2010
  • Reason.tv
  • Dateline: Washington, DC

No, no one said anything that made sense.

Tags: Media and Culture, Crazy, Socialism

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Union Jobs vs. Children's Lives: Which Side Are You On?

  • Fri, August, 13, 2010
  • Reason.tv
  • Dateline: California

Powerful teachers and administrators unions are controlling the health of young schoolchildren because they want a stranglehold on union jobs.

Tags: Health Care, Unions, California

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Three Reasons the FCC Shouldn't Touch the Internet

  • Mon, June, 21, 2010
  • Reason.tv
  • Dateline: Washington DC

Reason.tv takes a look at what the FCC has claimed will be a "light-handed" approach to regulating the internet. Shouldn't the government take a "no-handed" approach?

Tags: Government Regulations, Net Neutrality, Free Speech, Internet, Science & Technology

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What We Saw at the Glenn Beck Rally in DC

  • Mon, August, 30, 2010
  • Reason.tv
  • Dateline: Washington DC

Reason.tv went to Glenn Beck's 8/28 Restoring Honor rally and documented what they saw.

Tags: Religion, Media and Culture, Glenn Beck, Personal Responsibility

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What Happened to the Anti-War Movement?

  • Wed, March 23, 2011
  • Reason.tv
  • Dateline: Washington, DC

Since President Obama took office, anti-war protesters have been largely absent.

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How Did General Motors Pay Back Its Loans So Easily? They Didn't!

  • Fri, May 7, 2010
  • Reason.tv
  • Dateline: Washington DC

The Competitive Enterprise Institute has raised a complaint about the misleading advertisements on the part of General Motors. Did they really pay back their stimulus money?

Tags: Budget and Government, Jobs and Economy, Stimulus

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Union Showdown

  • Fri, February, 25, 2011
  • Reason.tv
  • Dateline: Madison, WI

The fact of the union showdowns across the country that the unions won't admit to you: public sector employees are receiving far greater compensation compared to their private sector counterparts, in both salary and benefits.

Tags: Debt, Deficit, Unions

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Three Reasons Why New Financial Regulations Won't Fix Anything

  • Fri, July, 02, 2010
  • Reason.tv
  • Dateline: Washington DC

The new regs won't be any more effective than the ones they replace in fixing anything or preventing the next major panic for at least three reasons.

Tags: Barack Obama, GOVERNMENT Spending, Jobs and Economy, Government Regulations, Fiscal Responsibility, Barney Frank, Chris Dodd, Fannie/Freddie

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Is the Tea Party Movement Racist?

  • Mon, May 10, 2010
  • Reason.tv
  • Dateline: Washington DC

Unbiased observers from Reason.tv decided to wade through a few Tea Party protests to investigate the MSM's allegations of racism. What did they find?

Tags: Tea Party, Protester, Mainstream Media, Racism