In this episode of Common Sense Soapbox, Seamus explains to Bob and Og why so many people are leaving states like California and New York and moving to states like Texas and Florida. Could you guess that high tax burdens and crippling regulation are to blame? Giddy up and join us on this week’s exploration of failed and successful governance!

The national debt is ballooning to exponential heights, yet anybody hardly seems to care. In this episode of Common Sense Soapbox, Seamus tries to wake up the room with some alarming statistics and data on the debt cliff we’re about to sail off.

It’s been over one full year of ????downs, but are we any healthier or any safer? As Seamus relays to Bob in this latest episode of Common Sense Soapbox, not really…

In this episode of Common Sense Soapbox, Seamus explains the significance of the Laffer Curve to Ron and Bob: High taxes can actually be counterproductive, even if your goal is to increase government revenue.

In this episode of Common Sense Soapbox, Seamus explains to Jaxxon and his family how school choice can make high-quality education accessible to all people, not just the wealthy.

In this episode of Common Sense Soapbox, CEO Penguin portals from THE FUTURE to warn Bob of the impending social security crisis. Bob is alarmed that he’ll be unable to rely on social security for his retirement as Seamus shares some concerning facts and statistics on the money drying up.

In this episode of Common Sense Soapbox, Seamus explains to Bob the history of American health care, how 90% of private insurance came to be provided through employers as a result of WWII-era price controls and tax exemptions, and how decoupling insurance from employment could be the start of a better system.

In this episode of Common Sense Soapbox, Seamus explains to Sarah, Ron, and Bob one thing that could vastly improve the US health care system and make it more affordable. Is it more spending? Is it more insurance? No. It’s something that would let the market drive down costs the same way it does in other well-functioning sectors: A functioning price system. 'What's that,' you say? Stay tuned and find out!

In this episode of Common Sense Soapbox, Bob gets canceled by a private social media company. Even though it’s completely legal, it doesn’t mean that we have to be comfortable with it. Watch the video as Seamus explains why.

In this episode of Common Sense Soapbox, Bob, Seamus, and Rob civilly discuss gun control as they fend off a savage horde of mutant boars: Are guns useful for self-defense? Is gun violence declining? How many people actually die each year from rifles? As Bob and Rob lay down some steaming-hot lead, Seamus lays down the ice-cold facts.

In this episode of Common Sense Soapbox, Seamus explains to Sarah, Bob, and Ron how the hundred-year-old Jones Act makes the American shipping industry way more expensive than it needs to be. In short, an act that was supposed to protect the industry actually ended up killing it. Watch the episode to learn how.

In this episode of Common Sense Soapbox, Ron, Sarah, Bob, and Seamus get detained by the Coast Guard on a military base. Bob quickly learns that everything is WAY more expensive than it should be, but why? Seamus explains how waste is a feature, not a bug, of military spending and describes the perverse incentives and lack of oversight that fuel it.

In this episode of Common Sense Soapbox, Seamus explains the costly errors behind America’s involvement in Afghanistan. Although the botched withdrawal and frenzied logistics are apparent, Bob, Ron, and Sarah are made aware of the systematic failure and shaky premises the war was based on.

Military spending is out of control, but how does it stack up against social security, Medicaid, and Medicare? We're all for reducing defense spending, but it might surprise you to learn that we actually spend more on health care than the military. We even spend more just on social security than the military. Even if we took all the money from the military, somehow confiscated all the net worth of all the billionaires in the US, managed to double the amount of money the government collects in annual income tax revenue and found other ways to raise all the money we need to pay for the new massive social spending programs that have been proposed by Bernie Sanders and others (which is essentially impossible), the act of monetizing all of that money and getting it circulating in the economy would have another major problem.

In this episode of Common Sense Soapbox, the gang finds themselves washed up on a desert island. Bob posts an SOS on social media hoping someone will save them but gets fact-checked on an irrelevant detail. Seamus takes the opportunity to explain why checkers might not have our best interest at heart…