Tax Chats
Taxes touch every aspect of society, including who rules, where factories are built, what people drink, what car they buy, when they have children, and when they die. Scott Dyreng (Duke) and Jeff Hoopes (UNC), two accounting professors, chat about taxes, including current events, with the energy of an over-caffeinated chihuahua. Listening is guaranteed to be far more entertaining than actually paying your taxes.
Podcasting since 2021 • 178 episodes
Tax Chats
Latest Episodes
A Chat with Pete Sepp, President of the National Taxpayers Union
We start by explaining the Tax Chats DC Tour, 2025, an exclusive live event!Then, Jeff and Scott chat with Pete Sepp, President of the National Taxpayers Union. They talk about the work the NTU has done in the past, and what it currently...
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Season 1
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Episode 164
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35:50
Progressive! A Chat with Ajay Mehrotra about Edwin Seligman
Jeff and Scott chat with Ajay Mehrotra, law professor at Northwestern, about the economist Edwin Seligman. They discuss Seligman's academic legacy, his views on progressive taxation, his influence on Columbia University, his students, and his v...
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Season 1
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Episode 163
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29:46
Medicaid! A Chat with Marc Goldwein
Jeff and Scott chat with Marc Goldwein, who is the Senior Vice President and Senior Policy Director for the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. They chat about Medicaid, a huge piece in the federal government's budget, and an essential ...
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Season 1
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Episode 162
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29:48
A Roman Tax Evasion Trial: A Chat with Anna Dolganov
Jeff and Scott chat with Anna Dolganov, an academy scientist at the Austrian Archeological Institute, about her work on a recently re-discovered papyrus. The papyrus contained notes from a tax evasion trial in ancient Rome, which Dr. Dolganov t...
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Season 1
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Episode 161
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30:39
A Chat with Hank Aaron about Social Security
Jeff and Scott chat with Henry (Hank) Aaron, a Senor Fellow Emeritus at the Brookings Institution, about Social Security. They discuss how it started, how we fund it, who gets it, how it has been reformed, and how it could be fixed.
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Season 1
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Episode 160
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37:06