The Rick Smith Show for 4-28-2017

Daniel Biss, Illinois State Senator joins Rick at the People’s Action Rise Up convention from Washington DC to discuss his run for governor in Illinois and explain how big money has corrupted the electoral process on both sides of the political aisle.

Jeff Bryant, Associate Fellow at Campaign for America’s Future and director of the Education Opportunity Network joins Rick at the People’s Action Rise Up from Washington DC to discuss why education justice is an absolute must and what activists and convention goers must do to save public education.

Matías Vernengo, Professor of Economics at Bucknell University and NakedKeynesianism blogger joins Rick to explain what the Trump tax proposal is a supply side zombie from the 1980’s and discuss how, if enacted, will balloon the debt and widen the inequality gap.