Immigrants & Taxes and The Anti-Vaxx Outbreak
Recorded on 03 Mar 2019: Topics include Immigrants & Taxes, and The Anti-Vaxx Outbreak!
Banter: Gun Laws, Drafting Women, and Behind the Curve
- US gun laws: House passes bill expanding background checks , Anthony Zurcher, BBC News, 27 Feb 2019
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-47396340 - Judge rules all-male military draft unconstitutional, Michael Burke, The Hill, 24 Feb 2019
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/431334-judge-rules-all-male-military-draft-unconstitutional - Judge Rules Male-Only Draft Violates Constitution, Matthew S Schwartz, NPR, 25 Feb 2019
https://www.npr.org/2019/02/25/697622930/judge-rules-male-only-draft-violates-constitution - Behind the Curve, Directed by Daniel J Clark, Delta-V Productions, 15 Nov 2018 (96 min)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8132700/
Segment 1: Immigrants and Taxes
- IRS Admits It Encourages Illegals To Steal Social Security Numbers For Taxes, Robert W Wood, Forbes, 13 Apr 2016
https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertwood/2016/04/13/irs-admits-it-encourages-illegals-to-steal-social-security-numbers-for-taxes/ – 25a45beb4c04 - Trump says illegal immigrants get $4.2B in tax credits but doesn’t count their taxes paid, Linda Qiu, PolitiFact, 18 Aug 2015
https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2015/aug/18/donald-trump/trump-illegal-immigrants-four-two-billion/ - Immigration and Taxation, Tax Forum, IRS, 2014
https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-utl/20-Immigration and Taxation.pdf - Undocumented immigrants pay taxes too. Here’s how they do it, Alexia Fernandez Campbell, Vox, 17 Apr 2017
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/4/17/15290950/undocumented-immigrants-file-tax-returns
Segment 2: The Anti-Vaxx Outbreak!
- In Anti-Vax ‘Hotspot,’ Measles Outbreak Spreads, newser, 30 Jan 2019
http://www.newser.com/story/270551/measles-outbreak-sickens-35-in-2-states.html - Vancouver-area measles outbreak grows to 43 cases, Molly Young, The Oregonian / Oregon Live, 02 Feb 2019
https://www.oregonlive.com/news/2019/02/vancouver-area-measles-outbreak-grows-to-43-cases.html - Northwest measles outbreak revives debate over vaccine laws, Gillian Flaccus, AP Komo 4 News, 02 Feb 2019
https://komonews.com/news/local/northwest-measles-outbreak-revives-debate-over-vaccine-laws-02-02-2019-170755407 - New measles cases discovered in Houston amid outbreaks elsewhere, Meghan Keneally, ABC News, 04 Feb 2019
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/measles-cases-discovered-houston-amid-outbreaks/story?id=60828751 - WHO warning as European measles rate jumps from record low, BBC Health, 20 Feb 2019
https://www.bbc.com/news/health-43125242 - Parents’ vaccine side effects fear ‘fueled by social media’, BBC Health, 24 Jan 2019
https://www.bbc.com/news/health-46972429 - Association of moral values with vaccine hesitancy, Amin et.al., Nature Human Behavior 1, 873-880 (2017)
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-017-0256-5 - Vaccine Denial: Failure Mode Analysis, Brian Dunning, Skeptoid Podcast, Skeptoid Media, 12 Feb 2019
https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4662 - Populist politics and vaccine hesitancy in Western Europe: an analysis of national-level data, Jonathan Kennedy, European Journal of Public Health, 25 Feb 2019
https://academic.oup.com/eurpub/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/eurpub/ckz004/5364298 - Populism, Wikipedia (accessed 01 Mar 2019)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Populism - Vaccine scepticism grows in line with rise of populism – study, Sarah Boseley, The Guardian, 25 Feb 2019
https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2019/feb/25/vaccine-scepticism-rises-in-line-with-votes-for-populists-study-finds - The Debunking Handbook, John Cook & Stephan Lewandowsky, The University of Queensland, St Lucia Australia, 05 Nov 2011
http://sks.to/debunk
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