Rep. Adam Smith
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500 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 27 Jul
Rep. Adam Smith’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I'm very pro-union.
Stock buybacks.
Why do we have stock buybacks?
They didn't exist prior to 1982.
So obviously corporations can exist without them.
On that agenda, I'm there.
Part of the problem I have with the broader agenda is you can't have free stuff for everybody all the time, A. And another message that the left gave us in the last 10 years was that deficits and debts don't matter.
Are you familiar with modern monetary theory?
Of course.
Yeah.
It's absurd.
The idea that we just spend as much money as possible is not a problem.
Now, I want to tax people.
I want a better social welfare state.
But to argue that we can have a better social welfare state because the debt doesn't matter undermines the credibility of that argument.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
It's bad policy.
Okay, so— I don't think having unlimited immigration is sustainable.
I don't think getting rid of the criminal justice system is a smart way to govern.
It's not just electability.
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