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Sharon McMahon

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
964 total appearances

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Podcast Appearances

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

Totally. Your state and local government has a lot more to do with your day to day because on a day to day basis, with the exception of a few big hot button issues, if you are in the military, sure, I'm willing to grant you that the federal government has more impact on your life if you're in the military or if You're a federal employee. The things that they're doing impact you more.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

Totally. Your state and local government has a lot more to do with your day to day because on a day to day basis, with the exception of a few big hot button issues, if you are in the military, sure, I'm willing to grant you that the federal government has more impact on your life if you're in the military or if You're a federal employee. The things that they're doing impact you more.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

Totally. Your state and local government has a lot more to do with your day to day because on a day to day basis, with the exception of a few big hot button issues, if you are in the military, sure, I'm willing to grant you that the federal government has more impact on your life if you're in the military or if You're a federal employee. The things that they're doing impact you more.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

But if you just like live here in a normal neighborhood, you have a job and you're not the recipient of government benefits by and large, you're just working for a living. The things that are impacting your life are like, what kind of schools do my kids have to go to? How well are my streets cleaned? Do somebody pick up my trash? Do I have clean drinking water?

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

But if you just like live here in a normal neighborhood, you have a job and you're not the recipient of government benefits by and large, you're just working for a living. The things that are impacting your life are like, what kind of schools do my kids have to go to? How well are my streets cleaned? Do somebody pick up my trash? Do I have clean drinking water?

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

But if you just like live here in a normal neighborhood, you have a job and you're not the recipient of government benefits by and large, you're just working for a living. The things that are impacting your life are like, what kind of schools do my kids have to go to? How well are my streets cleaned? Do somebody pick up my trash? Do I have clean drinking water?

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

Do people have the ability to pursue an education, you know, if they can't pay for it? By and large, these are state schools, their state and local programs, their local school boards that are impacting our daily lives. And we get so hung up on who the president is. This is not to say they're not important because they are. That's not to say they don't set the tone because they do.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

Do people have the ability to pursue an education, you know, if they can't pay for it? By and large, these are state schools, their state and local programs, their local school boards that are impacting our daily lives. And we get so hung up on who the president is. This is not to say they're not important because they are. That's not to say they don't set the tone because they do.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

Do people have the ability to pursue an education, you know, if they can't pay for it? By and large, these are state schools, their state and local programs, their local school boards that are impacting our daily lives. And we get so hung up on who the president is. This is not to say they're not important because they are. That's not to say they don't set the tone because they do.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

And that's not to say you shouldn't vote for president because it does matter.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

And that's not to say you shouldn't vote for president because it does matter.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

And that's not to say you shouldn't vote for president because it does matter.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

If they could just like, oh, they lowered gas prices. Right. Oh, my God. Oh, my God.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

If they could just like, oh, they lowered gas prices. Right. Oh, my God. Oh, my God.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

If they could just like, oh, they lowered gas prices. Right. Oh, my God. Oh, my God.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

You obviously don't know how gas is priced.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

You obviously don't know how gas is priced.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

You obviously don't know how gas is priced.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

I live near an oil refinery that gets its crude oil from a pipeline from Canada and they refine it and then put it on trains and trucks put all over the world. And gas is like 285 near my house, right? And we don't have $4 in state taxes, but neither do we have 35 million people trying to occupy a very small area of environmentally fragile land. It's complicated. It's very complicated.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Sharon McMahon (law and government teacher)

I live near an oil refinery that gets its crude oil from a pipeline from Canada and they refine it and then put it on trains and trucks put all over the world. And gas is like 285 near my house, right? And we don't have $4 in state taxes, but neither do we have 35 million people trying to occupy a very small area of environmentally fragile land. It's complicated. It's very complicated.