john: he is blamed for the depression. it is weird history if you don t want to hurt roosevelt you have to hurt the people who come before. but hoover came in between and increased spending. that s right. i blamed hoover more but coolidge was the antithesis of roosevelt. theodore and franklin especially. if you like expanding government you will like to undermine coolidge. john: he took naps every day. like ray again. people want activist politics? at the time he was popular. now we say governments create crisis and like to the college try to make a fun crisis that was part of the men said and people might notice that he developed the art of boring the country into believing it did not need government which was the best. john: they said the itch to
john: that is bill maher that usually loves big government. you would think it would start to sing again. i have been on his show a number of times i sent him a copy of my book and said join me. we would love to have you in tennessee. [laughter] john: will smith says he supports higher taxes but when learned about france 75% tax rate. his reaction was telling. [speaking japanese] [speaking french] 75? that is different. 75? god bless america. john: we can laugh about the hypocrisy of celebrities but let s go back to the question of fairness. shared sacrifice.
receivers it has grown bigger under every president of both parties and makes me wonder was there ever a president who did not grow government? there were a couple including this one. calvin coolidge is never on the best presidents west but he should be says amity shlaes the author. she wrote about college and he stopped growth. when he left office 1929 the federal government was smaller than when he came in 1923. john: but the know what also the political class, he is not liked. politicians of either party like to grow government and he shrinkage and i found it was fascinating how. he said no. all the time. whether the 50th and veto.
credit if you adopt a child child, congress passes these things because people say that is fair. they sound great by themselves but if you put them together it creates a complicated mess to dictate every aspect of our lives and made the irs with the super agency where we put our kids in day care to a hybrid vehicle. john: why is it nuts if you want people to put kids in day care that need the help or to buy a hybrid vehicle how else do you steer them there? is years the economy in the wrong direction why the economy grows so slowly because we dictator lives to the tax system not what is economically efficient or profitable. that is what drives the economy and with other countries have done to streamline their tax system like hongkong.
to the small base with a high rate that is the most damaging does not get the money. look at california they have the highest tax rates in the world slowing in growth dramatically, the revenues are not coming and the division of public service is the worst in the country. john: you can save them with your book your rica how to fix california but the way to fix it is to leave? if they don t fix i have to leave i was on governor schwarzenegger s of counsel of economic advisers he turned to the dark side reid tried some propositions but we lost the teachers association beat us to a pulp but then he became part of the problem and i said i am out. then moved to tennessee 2006 because of taxes and state economic policy. look what has happened since then. not that i make many forecast but that was a good one.