Ep. 63 - The Truth About a Wealth Tax

When I evaluated the wealth tax I found that, besides the fact that they have been proven to be ineffective, ignore the laws of economics, require us to ignore the track record of the federal government and besides the fact that they are immoral and unconstitutional and their implementation would be stupid, short-cited, punitive, impractical, unnecessary, and a violation of privacy, I see no problem with them.
Show Notes:
Fair Comprehensive Tax Reform is the Right Path - Larry Summers
The Destructive Economics of Wealth Taxation
Warren Wealth Tax Weighs on Democrats
Why a Wealth Tax Can't Solve Our Problems
Peter Schiff Show - Episode #439
Truth Quest Podcast Episodes
Episode #8 - The Truth About Social Security
Episode #16 - The Truth About the Supreme Court
Episode #23 - The Truth About Nullification
Episode #46 - The Truth About Roe v. Wade - Part I - Sick and Twisted
Episode #47 - The Truth About Roe v. Wade - Part II - What They Don't Tell You
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Ep. 62 - The Truth About Gold and Sound Money

Most people are aware of inflation. They expect the cost of products and services to go up every year. What these same people may not be aware of is the fact that this perpetual inflation is completely unnecessary.
If the United States had a sound money policy, meaning the U.S. Dollar was pegged to gold (on a gold standard) most of the angst around monetary policy, interest rates, the national debt, out of control government spending, inverted yield curve, negative interest rates, and cryptocurrencies would be nothing but noise.
In this episode we examine the history of a gold standard. We scrutinize actions taken by FDR, Nixon, the Federal Reserve and their impact on the worldwide economy. The bottom line is, because the gold standard constrains the spending of our overlords in Washington, D.C., they will never willingly revert back to that standard. Unfortunately the United States is in for a rude awakening as other countries have started accumulating gold reserves as a way to diversify away from the U.S. Dollar's reserve currency status.
Show Notes:
Think Bitcoin is the New Gold 2.0 - Think Again
The Gold Standard 
Your Move Gold Critics, Please Explain What Money Is
In Dismissing the Gold Standard, John Cochrane Channels Tina Fey
Central Banks of Gold Buying Spree Over Dollar Worries
Central Banks are Buying Gold Fastest Pace in Six Years
Russia, China Continue Massive Substitution of Dollar Assets into Gold
In Money We Trust: Documentary
Funding the Monster State: FDR, Nixon versus the Gold Standard
Alan Greenspan: Ron Paul Was Right About the Gold Standard
Ron Paul's Appearance on Judge Napolitano's Fox Show 
Truth Quest Podcast Episodes:
Episode #27- The Truth About the Federal Reserve: An Introduction
Episode #28 - The Truth About the Federal Reserve: The Results
Episode #56 - The Truth About Libra - Facebook's Cryptocurrency
APMEX: Buy Gold and Siver
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Ep. 60 - The Truth About Do Something - Red Flag Laws

Following the two most recent mass shootings, the usual cries of DO SOMETHING have resurfaced as they always do following attacks or a crisis. After the Las Vegas shooting, we heard cries for a ban on bump stocks; today it's calls for red flag legislation. These laws, also known as Gun-Violence Restraining Orders, or Extreme Risk Protection Orders allow family members and mental health professionals to petition a court for an order enabling legal authorities to temporarily remove guns from those who are deemed to be a significant danger to themselves or others.
As is often the case with these DO SOMETHING solutions, it sounds good on the surface but what is the truth? Listen to find out.
Show Notes:
Bipartisan Red Flag Gun Laws Plan Has Support in Congress
Red Flag Laws; Second Amendment Advocates Warn Trump About Support for Gun Reform Measures
Red Flag Laws or How to Repeal the Second Amendment Soviet Style Without a Pesky Vote
Rhode Island ACLU Analysis of Red Flag Legislation
Maryland Officers Serving Red Flag Gun Removal Order Fatally Shoot Armed Man
Chinese Social Credit Score Prevents 2.5 Million Discredited Entities from Buying Plan Tickets
Red Flag Laws: Oppose the Disease at Its Beginning
Brief History of the Income Tax
Cornell Law - The Presumption of Innocence
Debunking the Patriot Act as It Turns 15
The Enforcement Problems with Gun Grabbing Red Flag Laws Are Even Worse Than You Think
Revealing the Truth About Gun Control, Red Flag Laws and the Second Amendment
Red Flag: The Dangerous Urge to Do Something
Fee.org:
Bipartisan Support for Gun Confiscation is Growing
Red Flag Gun Laws Are a Page Out of Dystopian Science Fiction Novels
Red Flag Gun Laws Turn Due Process on Its Head
Truth Quest Podcast Episodes:
Episode #37 – The Truth About the BOR – The Incorporation Doctrine
Episode #59 – The Truth About What We Agree On
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Ep. 59 - The Truth About What We Agree On

I don't know about you but sometimes I get tired of discussing all the areas where we disagree politically or on public policy issues. In this episode I attempt to focus on things that most of us agree on such as government spending, right-to-try laws, the surveillance state, sound money, war, tort reform, term limits, the War on Drugs and the War on Poverty.
Does it not make sense to first focus on the few things in which we agree and then circle back to the numerous head-butting issues that divide us?
Show Notes:
Little Public Support for Reductions in Federal Spending
Will Trump's Backing Revive Moribund Term Limits Movement?
Study Shows Police Lying about Asset Forfeiture
Poverty in the U.S. Was Plummeting—Until Lyndon Johnson Declared War On It
Truth Quest Podcast Episodes:
Episode #2 - The Truth About Abortion - What About the Baby?
Episode #19 - The Truth About Elections and Washington, D.C.
Episode #33 - The Truth About Abortion - Part II - Mental Gymnastics
Episode #46 - The Truth About Roe v. Wade - Sick and Twisted
Episode #47 - The Truth About Roe v. Wade - What They Don't Tell You
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Ep. 58 - The Truth About Mass Shootings

As I record this episode, we are living through the aftermath of two mass shootings – one at a Wal-Mart in El Paso, Texas and one in the entertainment district in Dayton, Ohio. The reaction from the Left is as expected. Blame the NRA, blame rhetoric, blame guns, blame a perceived bias in society, blame everyone and everything except the shooters.
The Left has, yet again demonstrated themselves to be political opportunists disguised as compassionate onlookers. Their condemnation discrimination exposes their glaringly obvious double standard as they direct unfounded blame, condemnation and vitriol at their political opponents while ignoring the fact that many of these mass murderers are self-proclaimed liberals, socialists and communists.
They ignore mass shootings in Chicago, death and destruction in wars all over the world, and glorify and celebrate the murder of innocent babies in the womb while laying the blame of these mass shootings at the foot of Trump, the NRA and/or anyone who supports the Second Amendment.
Finding a solution is not their objective. Their objective is gun confiscation through liberty-limiting restrictions on gun ownership. The best long-term solution is a return of God to the public square. Short of that other solutions include law enforcement stepping up their game, reforming our mental health system, exploring red flag laws and eliminating gun-free zones.
We discuss all of this and more in this episode.
Show Notes:
Media Focus on Mass Shootings Shows a Disconnect from Actual Crime Trends
FBI Crime Statistics
Babylon Bee: Gun Violence
Mass Shootings Are Not Becoming More Common 
Seven Reasons to Oppose Red Flag Gun Laws
'We Have To Do Something!' Okay, Here Are Some Things We Can Do To Minimize Mass Shootings.
Truth Quest Podcast Episodes:
Episode #2 - The Truth About Abortion - What About the Baby?
Episode #33 - The Truth About Abortion - Part II - Mental Gymnastics
Episode #46 - The Truth About Roe v. Wade - Sick and Twisted
Episode #47 - The Truth About Roe v. Wade - What They Don't Tell You
Episode #55 - The Truth About Freedom from Religion
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Ep. 56 - The Truth About Libra - Facebook's Cryptocurrency

Facebook’s recent congressional testimony before the House Financial Services Committee regarding their proposed cryptocurrency, Libra, caught my attention. It got me wondering: where in the Constitution does it grant the federal government the power to regulate a cryptocurrency or a social media platform? I posed that question on the Truth Quest Facebook Fan Page and immediately started researching this episode.
The truth is that cryptocurrencies in general and the Libra specifically pose a threat to many entities - central banks, power hungry government officials, and too-big-to-fail banks.
In this episode I explain what Libra is and examine the threat posed by it and other cryptocurrencies. Along the way we discuss the benefits of cryptocurrencies, congressional overreach, sound money, central banks and the concept of private money.
Show Notes:
Libra White Paper
Libra House Hearing
G7 Urges Strict Libra Regime, Eyes Minimum Tax
Alternative Currencies Such as Bitcoin are a Valuable Insurance Policy Against Feckless Government
Does Libra Threaten Monetary Sovereignty?
Fee.org
Why This Economist is Skeptical of Facebook's Grandiose Claims About the Libra
Why Facebook's New Cryptocurrency is No Threat to Bitcoin
Mises.org
Libra: Competitor to Inflationary Central Banks
Facebook's Fake Money
It's No Bitcoin: Facebook's Libra Currency Tied to Government Currencies
https://mises.org/wire/idea-alternative-currencies-going-mainstream
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Ep. 54 – The Truth About the Citizenship Question on the Census

Recently the Supreme Court issued an opinion regarding the Trump Administration’s effort to put a citizenship question on the 2020 census. We've been told by leading Democrats that the inclusion of the question is an effort to marginalize minorities, scare immigrants and, as Nancy Pelosi said, “making America white again.”
But what is the truth (and history) of this question and the census?
Show Notes:
Trump's Citizenship Question Isn't Controversial: Obama Deleting It Should've Been
The American Public Overwhelmingly Supports a Citizenship Question on 2020 Census Comments
Poll: Majority Say the Census Should be Able to Include Citizenship Question
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Ep. 50 - The Truth About Party Over Principles

It bothers me immensely when politicians and talking heads propose intellectually lazy and dishonest policies that they know will do more harm than good. Then your friends, family and the faceless, and often nameless, folks on social media jump on the bandwagon. Their prescriptions are not based on principles (or so I thought) rather, they appear to be based on party (or group think).
I am no longer willing to cut these folks any slack because they can easily spend a few minutes on an Internet search and read multiple sides of any argument or policy. They can easily spend a few minutes trying to determine what the truth is.
Why then does this phenomenon exist? Why do those who subscribe to this form of public policy advocacy resort to low-ball tactics when it comes to the treatment of their ideological foes? You know: name-calling, violence, vilification, shutting down the speech of dissenters, mocking, de-platforming, boycotting, and censorship!
After much reflection and study, I believe these people are, indeed, principle-driven. That principle is winning - - - winning at all costs. Nothing else explains this behavior.
Show Notes:
William Watkins – The New Absolutes
Pritical Thinking - Amazon
Pritical Thinking - eBooks
Michael Malice - The New Right
Truth Quest Podcast Episodes:
Episode #4 - The Truth About Minimum Wage
Episode #7 -The Truth About Climate Change
Episode #31 - The Truth About Socialism - Part I
Episode #32 - The Truth About Socialism - Part II
Episode  #33 - The Truth About Abortion - Mental Gymnastics
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Ep. 47 - The Truth About Roe v Wade - Part II - What They Don’t Tell You

In this second episode on the Roe v. Wade opinion, we are going to walk through the second half of the opinion and expose you to parts that neither the pro-life nor the pro-abortion side of the debate ever mention. Namely the very clear language finding that the right to an abortion and the right to privacy is NOT absolute. The opinion clearly grants states the ability to regulate and ban abortions.
It's right there in black in white! Why isn't this common knowledge?
Show Notes:
Roe v. Wade opinion
Chapter 7 of Mark Levin’s Men in Black
The Real Jane Roe
Supreme Court Upholds Indiana Abortion Law Fetal Remains
Missouri Terminates It's Last Abortion Clinic After Finding Deficient Practices
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Ep. 46 - The Truth About Roe v Wade - Part I - Sick and Twisted

I think it is safe to say that the Roe v. Wade opinion is the most controversial Supreme Court opinion of the last 50 years. If not, the consequences of it certainly are with over 50 million abortions being performed. But what is the truth about the opinion? How many people have actually taken the time to read it?
Upon reading the opinion, I was struck by the intellectual dishonesty of the majority opinion and the lack of true constitutional analysis. I was also alarmed at the callous manner in which the life in the womb was characterized and the list of so-called valid reasons for ending an innocent life.
In this episode, I introduce or reintroduce you to the Roe case and walk you through Justice Harry Blackmun's majority opinion. At times it is sick and twisted but, in the end, the court surprisingly leaves the door wide open for state regulation of abortion.
Besides leading to the death of tens of millions of innocent lives, this opinion demonstrates just how far activist judges will go in pursuit of their policy preferences. I demonstrate this by dismantling their three primary citations - the right to privacy, the Ninth and the Fourteenth Amendment.
Show Notes:
Roe v. Wade opinion
Chapter 7 of Mark Levin’s Men in Black.
Truth Quest Podcast Episodes:
Episode #2 – The Truth About Abortion – What about the Baby?
Episode #33 – The Truth About Abortion –  Mental Gymnastics
Episode #3 – The Truth About the Constitution - Where in the Constitution?
Episode #16 – The Truth About the Supreme Court
Episode #37 – The Truth About the Bill of Rights
Episode #43 – The Truth About the Federalist Papers - Part I
Episode #44 – The Truth About the Federalist Papers - Part II
Episode #45 – The Truth About the Federalist Papers - Part III
Episode #26 – The Truth About the Judeo-Christian Tradition
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