Is a proposed “patriot” wealth tax on the accumulation of wealth in America an “assault” on high-profile billionaires or the early stage of a longer siege.

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Thirty-four years ago, on June 12, 1987, Ronald Reagan stood before the Berlin Wall to deliver an address. Just over two years later, on November 9, 1989, the East German government suddenly announced that it had decided to permit free passage between East and West Berlin—the Berlin Wall had ceased to function. To commemorate one of the seminal events of the 20th century, the Reagan Institute invited Uncommon Knowledge with Peter Robinson to participate and record a panel discussion.

Leading professional athletes are paid enormously. But for those plying their trades in California, don’t be surprised to see them shopping at Costco after paying taxes and buying a home. Or moving out of the state, as so many other of the most productive Californians have done, including Tesla’s Elon Musk, Oracle’s Larry Ellison, Dropbox CEO Drew Houston, and Shutterstock’s billionaire founder Jonathan Oringer.

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Tyler Goodspeed, the former director of the White House Council of Economic Advisers and currently the Kleinheinz Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, explains why he pursued a job in the Trump administration, gives his thoughts on the economic policies of the Biden administration, and describes what it was like to watch one of the strongest economies in the history of the world implode over the course of several weeks in the spring of 2020.