In this week's The Reason Roundtable, editors Matt Welch, Katherine ManguWard, Nick Gillespie, and Peter Suderman parse the presidential candidates' latest batch of confounding ideas on tax policy before lamenting their various cringe media appearances over the past week.

00:00 Tax policy proposals

31:44 Weekly listener question

43:38 Candidate cringe media hits

54:18 This week's cultural recommendations

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