Darren Brady Nelson: Aussie tax, Aussie federalism, Aussie house prices

Darren Brady Nelson is the chief economist at LibertyWorks, writes for Townhall, and is a policy advisor at the Heartland Institute. He is also a regular commentator in traditional and online Australian and American media. His main influences include the Austrian school of economics, common law, and Christian apologetics.

In this episode we discuss:

• Big Tech Censorship
• The GST was a bad idea
• Woke business
• Austrian vs Keynesian economics
• Christianity and economics
• China's success

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Resources we mentioned in the episode:

Human Action by Mises (free):

https://mises.org/library/human-action-0

Economics in One Lesson:

https://mises.org/library/economics-one-lesson

Millennials and the Progressive Movement:

https://cdn.mises.org/12_1_6_0.pdf?token=K_ZxSrXg

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2:12 Banned from LinkedIn!

4:08 Conservative ideology silenced

6:47 Big Tech censorship is a cartel

8:58 Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act 1996 that protects Big Tech

12:50 US Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas speaks out against Big Tech

14:45 The Democrats are about to ‘pack the Supreme Court’ by adding more left wing judges

19:54 Forget left vs right, it’s authoritarian vs freedom

24:12 Australian states go to Canberra to beg for money

27:00 GST was a bad thing

28:20 A consumption tax to replace all taxes

29:57 A flat tax

36:25 The Left win the policy wars regardless of who is in charge

38:58 Big business loves tax hikes!

41:00 Wokeism always comes from businesses that have mega profits

42:13 The founder of BLM cashes in

44:40 Competitive federalism – why we need our states to compete

51:23 Increasing power in local governments

55:31 Austrian Economics

1:04:29 What is Keynesian Economics?

1:13:55 Australia loves Big Government

1:17:07 Australia’s housing market – a real boom or just fake inflation?

1:20:00 Income is going down as inflation rises

1:21:15 What should Australians do in this economic climate?

1:23:07 What is good about Keynesian Economics?

1:27:05 What’s the alternative to measuring GDP?

1:30:55 The overlap between Christianity and Economics

1:37:50 Will China’s economic success continue?

1:49:19 Darren doesn’t want a Magic Wand