Today on Point of View, Dr. Merrill (Buddy) Matthews is our guest host and he’s going to have a super, busy show!
Buddy’s first guest is Mike Viola. Mike joins Buddy to talk about Film Director David Lynch and how he showed us it’s okay to like America. His next guest is John Fund. As a writer for National Review, John will discuss Trumps progress so far. In the second hour Buddy welcomes Dan Pilla. They’ll speak about The Fair Tax Act and will probably mention tariffs.
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Data Strategist | Head of Analytics - Foundation for Economic Education
Mike Viola is the head of analytics at the Foundation for Economic Education, using data to help spread the message of liberty. He also sits on the board of America’s Future Atlanta, advocating for local solutions to the issues facing the metro area. He previously worked in finance, reporting on investments in the U.S. and Latin America. Mike developed his love of classical liberal ideals at the University of Chicago, where he studied political science and ancient Egyptian history, and he originally comes from Buffalo, NY.
David Lynch Showed Us It’s Okay to Like America
The loss of filmmaker David Lynch last month led to a flood of much-deserved tributes.
National Affairs Columnist - National Review
John Fund is national-affairs columnist for National Review. He worked for the Wall Street Journal for more than two decades, starting in 1984, and was a member of the newspaper’s editorial board from 1995 to 2001.
Fund has written for Esquire, Reader’s Digest, Reason, and the New Republic. He co-wrote Cleaning House: America’s Campaign for Term Limits with James Coyne. In 2004, he wrote Stealing Elections: How Voter Fraud Threatens Our Democracy. He has written two books with Hans von Spakovsky: Who’s Counting?: How Fraudsters and Bureaucrats Put Your Vote at Risk and Obama’s Enforcer: Eric Holder’s Justice Department.
Founder & Executive Director - Tax Freedom Institute, Inc.
For over three decades, Dan Pilla has been the nation’s leader in taxpayers’ rights defense and IRS abuse prevention and cure. Regarded as one of the country’s premiere experts in IRS procedures and general financial problems resolution techniques, he has helped hundreds of thousands of citizens solve personal and business tax and financial problems they thought might never be solved. As the author of 14 books, dozens of research reports and hundreds of articles, Dan’s work is regularly featured on radio and television as well as in major newspapers, leading magazines and trade publications nation-wide. Dan is a frequent guest on numerous talk radio programs where he is heard by millions of people each year. His fast-paced interviews provide hard-hitting answers to even the toughest questions. His many media appearances include CNN, CBS, CNBC, Fox News, CSPAN, the CBS Radio Network, the USA Radio Network and many others. His books have been recommended by prominent magazines and financial publications such as the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Money, Family Circle, Investor’s Business Daily and more. Dan has written or contributed to major articles for Reader’s Digest, National Review, Reason, USA Today Magazine and others. The Associated Press once commented that “Dan Pilla probably knows more about the IRS than the commissioner.” The Wall Street Journal ranked his book, The IRS Problem Solver, as the number one tax book in America. Dan was a consultant to the National Commission on Restructuring the IRS. He works with numerous public policy research institutes and presented testimony to Congress on several occasions. His testimony to the Senate Finance Committee blew the lid off IRS abuse and led to many new taxpayers’ rights and protections. He was a member of the Editorial Board of the Road Map to Tax Reform Project, which drove the Bush Administration’s tax reform agenda. Dan is admitted to practice before the United States Tax Court and is enrolled to practice before the IRS. Dan is also the Executive Director of the Tax Freedom Institute, Inc., a national association of tax professionals.
Fair Tax Act Introduced in Congress
In late January, the Fair Tax Act, H.R. 25, was introduced in Congress yet again. This time the bill’s chief author is Rep. Earl L. “Buddy” Carter (R-GA). The Fair Tax Act is a bill ...