Season 4, Episode 25 - Thomas Sowell, leaving your kids in the car, Portland, Maine's LGBTQ community, restaurant tipping, massive Hamas tunnels, income inequality, medical debt and higher mortgages

In this week's podcast, our quote is from economist & author Thomas Sowell about the fate of societies that allow the number of non-working parasites to continually increase and be supported by the remaining productive members of that society.   In our "Stupidest thing I've heard all week segment, we once again have two contenders:   The first is a story about a couple who had their minivan carjacked with their 6-month-old baby strapped into his car seat in the back of the car.   The second is about the City of Portland, Maine, using taxpayer funds to build an affordable housing complex that will only be open to members of the LGBTQ community.   With President Trump proposing to exempt tipped income from income taxes, we'll ask if the current custom of leaving the same percentage tip regardless of the cost of the meal makes any logical sense.   We'll tell you what homeless people in Portland, Oregon, are doing with the cases of free bottled water provided by the City. Hint: They aren't drinking it or washing with it.   Well, tell you about the massive tunnels built by Hamas that connect the Gaza city of Rafah with Egypt that Israel's defense forces have discovered.   We ask, "Is income inequality a bad thing or a sign of a healthy economic system that greatly benefits all"?   We'll tell you why a new Biden administration rule preventing medical debt from being included on credit reports and incorporated into credit scores will result in higher mortgage rates for everybody in the future.   Our taxpayer relief shot comes to us from Oakland, California, where three thugs picked the wrong home to try and rob.