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Robert Stark talks to Paul Bingham about the Planned Obsolescence of the American Heartland

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Robert Stark talks to Paul Bingham about his in-production documentary chronicling the economic and social despair of the American Heartland. Paul Bingham is the author of Down Where the Devil Don’t Go and Black House Rocked. You can contact Paul at [email protected].

Topics:

Paul’s footage and interviews conducted across the South and Midwest
The concept of non-essential jobs exposing the reality that most of the workforce will become obsolete
Long term economic consequences of the pandemic including permanent job loss, foreclosure of small banks and businesses, and more automation and streamlining
Trump’s failure to bring back manufacturing
The conglomeration of farmland and real estate
Why Paul predicts America will serve as the breadbasket of the world
Paul’s speculation that elites support mass immigration in the short term but population reduction in the long term
Stratification of elites, hiding of assets, and effectiveness of an asset tax
Crisis of addiction and deaths of despair (highest rates among Whites and Native Americans)
The foreign policy motive behind foreign owned cash businesses
The benefits of economic specialization and family based businesses
America’s nomadic nature
Why certain groups of Americans are better adapted to thrive in the future
Why the general public is only educated to be a consumer and not a rational political actor
Failure of past political movements from Ron Paul to Bernie Sanders
How the documentary will record the heartland’s decline rather than explicitly make political predictions
Paul’s upcoming poetry book, Strip Club Poetry

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Robert Stark interviews Randall Burns

Alternative Left, Asset Tax, Basic Income, Bernie Sanders, Donald Trump, Economics, Environment, Georgism, Immigration, income inequality, Leftism, Liberalism, Randall Burns, Third Way Economics, Vdare, Wealth, welfare state

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Randall Burns is a graduate of the University of Chicago Department of Economics where his professors included Maynard Krueger and Arcadius Kahan. He worked for years in the tech industry and helped with an early database integration for what eventually became the world’s mostpopular credit card fraud detection system. He was the DBA supporting a team of auditors working on the investigation of convicted felon Bill Griffin, former CEO of a major insurance company. He was a volunteer for the 1976 Carter campaign. In 1990, he published “Rx for the Environment and the Economy” in the Oregon Peaceworker, which proposed a revenue neutral tax shift to pollution taxes. An initiativeadvocating similar policies will be on the ballot in 2016 in Washington State. In 2004, he helped write the Kucinich Campaign’s statement on Guest Worker Visas. Randall Burns – VDARE.com

Topics include:

The Tech Industry and impact of H1-B Visas
Ted Cruz on H1-B Visas
Donald Trump, his economic views, and why Randall preferres the old wealth-tax Trump
Will Trump Renounce His (Legal) Use Of Indentured Immigrant Cheap Labor?
Bernie Sanders, his stance on immigration, and Guest Worker Visas
The minimum wage, immigration, and why it should be adjusted for cost of living on a regional basis
The Guaranteed Minimum Income
The Pollution Tax and how to implement it without encouraging outsourcing
The progressive case against mass immigration and why it’s difficult to get the left on boad
Faux Corporate Progressives
The Georgist Economic Philosophy
The affects of immigration on real estate
Income Inequality
The European Migrant Crisis
How US foreign and economic policy contributes to mass immigration

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Robert Stark interviews John Médaille

Asset Tax, Banking, capitalism, Catholicism, Charles Lincoln, Communism, Conservatives, Corporate Welfare, Corporations, decentralization, Distributism, Economics, Free Trade, Healthcare, John Médaille, Morality, Texas, Third Position, Third Way Economics, Usury, Wealth

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Robert Stark and co-host Charles Lincoln interview John Médaille. John is a retired businessman who teaches in the Theology and Business departments at the University of Dallas, and is a senior scholar with the Intercollegiate Studies Institute. He is a veteran of the Vietnam War, a former city councilman, and the author of two books, “The Vocation of Business: Social Justice in the Marketplace” (2007) and “Toward a Truly Free Market: A Distributist Perspective.”

Topics include:

The culture and economy of Texas
How a Free Market is defined by a high degree of competition and participation
How capitalism is not a truly free market because it leads to consolidation
How conservatism became redefined as corporate global capitalism instead of local control and tradition
The need to end corporate subsidies and regulations favoring large corporations
Wal-Mart and the hidden inefficiency of our distribution system
Monopolies in the media and communications
Anti-Trust Laws
Banking and the need to end to big to fail banks in favor of localized banking
Georgism and the theory on land speculation
Why John favors a wealth tax over an income tax
How the breaking up of large estates led to the economic success of Taiwan, Japan, and South Korea
How those examples differ from Communist land confiscation in Zimbabwe and the Soviet Union
The Emilia-Romagna Cooperatives in Northern Italy
Free Trade deals and how they destroyed small businesses and manufacturing
Healthcare reform: licensing, guilds, and insurance


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Robert Stark interviews Anthony Migchels on the Basic Income

Anthony Migchels, Asset Tax, Banking, Basic Income, Economics, income inequality, Negative Income Tax, Netherlands, Third Position, Third Way Economics, Usury, Wall Street, Wealth, welfare state

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Anthony Migchels is a monetary reform advocate from the Netherlands. His website is Real Currencies

Topics include:

Proposals for a basic income

How a basic income should be implemented and how it should not

Social Credit

Why Anthony supports an Asset Tax

The myth that the top wealthiest pay the most in taxes

How we lose up to 90% of our income to Usury, taxation, rents and high prices through Monopoly and associated artificial scarcity

 

Robert Stark interviews Keith Preston about Distributism

Asset Tax, capitalism, Conservatives, Corporate Welfare, Corporations, Distributism, Economics, Eugenics, G.K. Chesterton, Hilaire Belloc, Imperialism, Keith Preston, Marxism, Nationalism, Negative Income Tax, Third Position, Third Way Economics, Traditionalism, welfare state

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Robert Stark talks to Keith Preston of Attack the System for a written interview.

Topics include:

Keith’s interest in alternative economics that opposes both capitalism and socialism such as distributism
Why third way economics theories have limited influence but a large potential audience
A Traditionalist critique of Capitalism
Chesterton and Belloc’s views on Nationalism, Eugenics, and Imperialism
How Marxist viewed Distributism as a Petit Bourgeois movement
The Distributist critique of the welfare state versus the modern conservative view towards poverty
Taxation policies such as a Negative Income Tax and Asset Tax

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