The John Batchelor Show

Wednesday 13 November 2019

Air Date: 
November 13, 2019

JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW
 
Hour One
Wednesday 13 November 2019 / Hour 1, Block A:  Richard Epstein, Chicago Law, New York Law, Hoover Institution, in re:  Medicare fraud.  The classical liberal and the libertarian. Taxation, commerce, and liberty & property: a huge transformation [in the 1930s].
Sen Warren has put forth a Medicare for all proposal:  first, the power of the government, considering classical liberal jurisprudence; and second, how to pay for it.  Can the federal government dragoon all state taxes for [healthcare]?. . .  She’ll argue that it’s a giant form of regulation, and thus is Constitutional. “We’ll take a package of benefits you want and give you a package of benefits you don’t want.”  No compensation for the loss, thus possibly takings that are not legal.
The classical view was that states were co-equal with the federal government and neither could tax the other’s jurisdiction.  Garcia vs San Antonio, New Deal:  you cannot run your own government if someone can tell you what to pay people. Now, it takes all state money, and in exchange you get federal protection. The question of dual jurisdictions.
Wednesday 13 November 2019 / Hour 1, Block B:  Richard Epstein, Chicago Law, New York Law, Hoover Institution, in re:  Taxes.  Elizabeth Warren’s proposal takes on the richest people in the Solar System, the billionaires: a 6% wealth tax on everyone whose resources exceed a million dollars.
“The power to tax is the power to destroy.” She thinks you can double revenue by doubling taxes.  If you take 6% each year, a lot of the money will be gone in twenty years.  It's ruinous as a revenue-generator. When the superrich invest money, they usually put it in the market or endow charities. 
Warren also wants to make it difficult or impossible for rich people to leave the country – unfortunately, a clear mark of tyrants who’ve regularly done this in the past – Hitlerites, Soviets, current Chinese communist party members.
Wednesday 13 November 2019 / Hour 1, Block C: Robert Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack,com, in re:  Asteroids Ryugu and Benu, both rubble piles, carboneaceous chondrites, thought to come from the very beginnings of our Solar System. The many categories don't yet make much sense to us.  Benu has “had frequent outbursts.” May hit Earth in the last quarter of the 21st Century. Osiris Rex is the probe to Benu. Japanese Space Agency.
Interstellar space – one of the two Voyager craft has officially left the Solar System, Both functioning more than 11 billion miles from Earth and we still receive their data.
YuTu 2 and Chang I 4 have completed their eleventh lunar day. Congratulations, 朋友
We’re moving into a solar minimum. Any resolution? Nope.  October data of sunspot activity: one weak sunspot in the beginning of the month, then flatlined – fewest sunspots since the Maunder Minimum in the 16th Century (“the Little Ice Age”).
Anecdotally, whenever there’s a minimum of sunspots it grows cooler on the Earth.
The Paris Agreement climate treaty: although we’ve withdrawn from it, the US is the only country in the world that has met its goals!
Wednesday 13 November 2019 / Hour 1, Block D: Robert Zimmerman BehindtheBlack,com, in re:  Boeing Starliner. Cold war between governmental and private space. NASA needs crew capsules to take astronauts to ISS; Boeing and SpaceX are both getting close to manned missions.  Boeing completed its parachute test: simulated what would happen if the rocket below was having a problem; it worked — except: of the three main parachutes, only one deployed.  NASA is nonetheless content . . .  Meanwhile, commercial space is led by the successes of SpaceX.  Starlink is a gigantic network to provide global Internet.  Launched 60 satellites. The fairing was recovered and successfully re-used; has recovered 70% of its rocket.
Boeing and Gateway. SLS costs $2 billion, compared with $100 mil for commercial.
 
Hour Two
Wednesday 13 November 2019 / Hour 2, Block A:  1/12 Wilson, by A. Scott Berg
Wednesday 13 November 2019 / Hour 2, Block B:  2/12 Wilson, by A. Scott Berg
Wednesday 13 November 2019 / Hour 2, Block C:  3/12 Wilson, by A. Scott Berg
Wednesday 13 November 2019 / Hour 2, Block D:  4/12 Wilson, by A. Scott Berg
 
Hour Three
Wednesday 13 November 2019 / Hour 3, Block A:  5/12 Wilson, by A. Scott Berg
Wednesday 13 November 2019 / Hour 3, Block B:  6/12 Wilson, by A. Scott Berg
Wednesday 13 November 2019 / Hour 3, Block C:  7/12 Wilson, by A. Scott Berg
Wednesday 13 November 2019 / Hour 3, Block D:  8/12 Wilson, by A. Scott Berg
 
Hour Four
Wednesday 13 November 2019 / Hour 4, Block A:  9/12 Wilson, by A. Scott Berg
Wednesday 13 November 2019 / Hour 4, Block B:  10/12 Wilson, by A. Scott Berg
Wednesday 13 November 2019 / Hour 4, Block C:  11/12 Wilson, by A. Scott Berg
Wednesday 13 November 2019 / Hour 4, Block D:  12/12 Wilson, by A. Scott Berg
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