Teaching kids about taxes and welfare using Hallowe’en candy
Comedian Tim Slagle, whom for some reason I had never heard of, has an excellent video out in which he uses Hallowe’en candy to illustrate taxes. A lot packed into 3 minutes.
HT to Patrick T. Peterson
Nov 1 2011
Although I missed his appearances at AEI and Cato (videos here and here, respectively), I talked with Jeffrey and his wife, Shterna, in a coffee shop. I did not take any notes. He was in town to talk about his book, Engineering the Financial Crisis, but we did not discuss that. Instead, we mostly talked about our di...
Oct 31 2011
Reason TV has up two parts of an interview that Nick Gillespie did recently with interviewee Ken Burns. Burns has a new 3-part PBS series out on Prohibition, which my economist/historian friend, Jeff Hummel, tells me is excellent. These interviews are excellent too. In part one, Gillespie and Burns are basically sym...
Oct 31 2011
Teaching kids about taxes and welfare using Hallowe'en candy Comedian Tim Slagle, whom for some reason I had never heard of, has an excellent video out in which he uses Hallowe'en candy to illustrate taxes. A lot packed into 3 minutes. HT to Patrick T. Peterson
READER COMMENTS
PaulC
Oct 31 2011 at 1:25pm
Funny, in a strange ‘look at how we get screwed over’ sort of way.
mobile
Oct 31 2011 at 4:36pm
He didn’t even mention the paperwork.
arnez mcdaniel
Nov 1 2011 at 1:16pm
This is a very informative video, and exteremly humorous as well. The sublimital messages are very clever and very well placed and makes for a very relevant and tangilble message.
mobile
Nov 1 2011 at 1:51pm
There is no kid in this country who got their bounty of Halloween candy on their own. You hit the streets and got a big bag to take home? Good for you. But I want to be clear, the pavement you pounded was paid for by the rest of us. You were safe from the other ghosts and witches out and about that night because of police forces that the rest of us paid for. You didn’t have to worry that marauding bands of pirates and Darth Vaders would come and seize all your Starbursts and Milky Ways.
Now look, you had a great costume and you turned it into something terrific. God bless. Keep a big hunk of it. But part of the underlying social contract is that you take a hunk of that and pay it forward for the next kid who comes along.
David R. Henderson
Nov 1 2011 at 11:37pm
@mobile,
LOL. Very nicely done.
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