Jason Lewis Walks Off in Middle of His Show
Tonight at 6:24pm (CST) Jason Lewis, Host of the Nationally Syndicated “Jason Lewis Show” and co-founder of Galt.io walked off his show and is GOING GALT. Like many others (Leaders & Companies) he is no longer satisfied having what he produces confiscated through taxes and being dictated through regulation. His departure adds to the ever-growing list of Leaders and Companies that have finally had enough and are determined to find a new way of doing business that accomplishes their goals without compromising their own freedoms and beliefs.
In his departure, Jason Lewis left a short 15 minute parody of what it is like working in a highly regulated industry and some of the events that led to his decision. Lewis who has long complained about the heavy hand of government is apparently living up to his word and is “Going Galt” – a phrase derived from the iconic Ayn Rand novel “Atlas Shrugged.” In the book, the “producers” or “men of the minds” – as the famed author put it – decide to go out on “strike” as a protest against those who would attack them politically.
Lewis, a long-time advocate against the high levels of taxation now says he too has had enough …
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He was local and I regularly listened to him on my way home from work. Sometimes he made me mad – a little too Libertarian for me. But mostly I heartily agreed with him. Some of his listeners think this might be a stunt, but I don’t care. I’m going to miss his clear analysis of what’s going on in this world.
Good luck, Jason, and God bless you.
Nice thought, but it’s too late, Jase.
I’m gonna miss him. Hope my local a.m. that he was on finds another like him.
August 3rd, 1995, I slipped the dock lines at the marina, and set sail headed south. Never went back. My Galt moment.
Where in the US was he based?
I’m always surprised by how many people need to listen to someone else,on the radio or tv.
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Minneapolis, Minnesota – claudia
Don’t know the guy, Claudia, but at first, I also would have wished him well and said “bravo!”.
But, after going through Evan Sayet’s book, The Kindergarden of eden” recently, I gotta say
he’s NOT “going Galt,” just running away.
He’s a part of the Rhetoric Industry and doesn’t per se produce anything. Sure, someone like a Rush Limbaugh going off the air might have some “galtian” significance but, NO, this guy is just running away.
Running away, like the guys who have their 5-star bug out bags and destinations ready, making sure they will be safe and sound…only to return later to a totalitarian condition which they fled and did not fight against.
Sorry, that’s cowardice in my book.
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(whooooposhhhhh)
Jason Lewis used to fill in for Rush. I wonder what happened to that deal…
I mildly disagree with you Czar. His quitting / running away is not much different from all the people that “went Galt” in Atlas Shrugged. You don’t have to be the top dog in a given industry to have an effect by refusing to participate in a corrupt system. Certainly he is hurting himself mostly, but he is making a statement. I can’t find the words to express how much I hate the waste and the utter evil that is done with the taxes that are demanded of me. I personally am just putting along and not making nearly as much as I could and strongly considering early retirement. If anyone finds Galt’s valley, I’ll join you there.
I don’t understand how he can support himself with this galt.io website. I looked through it briefly, and they have this “galtcoin” stuff and some sort of economy thing.
Anyone understand it? Is it barter? cryptocoin?
How does he avoid taxes?