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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Kamala Harris wants to be Mamala Harris. It's seven twenty
three here on Houston's Morning News, and she's promising all
kinds of help and free stuff so that you know
she can just help you along. But really all it
leads to is more government control of your life, more
government dependency. Here to talk about with us is a
man who wrote an article about all this for the
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American Thinker. He's an economist and professor, Burton Abrams. Welcome
to our show, Burton. Appreciate you coming. Thank you, appreciate
you coming on here. So is there any end of
the large est that Kamala Harris would promise in order
to be elected president.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Well, she's eventually going to run out of our money
and that would be the end of it. But she's
doing a good job trying to do it.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
Are people easily bribed? Do you think how many people
buy into the idea that the government should be providing
all these benefits to them.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
I don't have a number exactly about it, but it
looks appears that it's increasing. And many of our young
people that are moving in with their parents and are
having a tough time of it. The offers of forgiveness
of their college debt loans, twenty five thousand dollars grant
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in order to start up by a first home. Also
fifty thousand dollars worth of tax credits to start a
new business. I'm afraid that a lot of people just
are going to fall for this, and they don't quite
understand the full ramifications of it. When everyone's freebies are computed,
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the cost to society is enormous, The taxes that are
going to be needed for that are great. And if
Kamala Harris gets her plans adopted, the United States would
look even more socialists than Europe.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Yeah, the America, the American values of self reliance and
self determinism are being wiped out as every time with
the money comes the strings of over regulation and regulation
of your very life.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Yes, because I pointed out in the article for the
American Thinker people, if you've had a good set of parents,
or one parent that took care of you and fed
you and clothed you and loved you, and that was
very comforting, and then going off into the real world
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and being self reliant and having to get a job
and work and make pay the bills, and along comes
the government acting as a new parent for you to
take care of you. It's very seductive, and I think
that explains why so many basically capitalistic countries traveled down
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the road, as Hayek would Frederick van Hayek would say,
down the world to serf them. As we become more
and more dependent on the government to provide us with
things that traditionally was done by families and by individuals.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Yeah, seductive, but not sustainable. Thank you for joining us
this morning. Appreciate it. Burton Abrams, economist and professor. He
wrote a story about all this and the American Thinker