an economist at chapman university studies religion and explained this to me.in it to the audience. >> well religion is a market phenomenon like other once, and when you make the government the arbiter the funder of religion, it operates like a typical lazy monopoly and incentives are lost, the clergy are focused on pleasing the politicians rather than the people. >> the church of england and they have no competition, they want to suck up to the king. >> at best a combination of the american post office and public school. john: what do you mean the u.s. was the first religious free market? >> let every religion compete freely and enter freely. john: i always assume people came here to escape religious tyranny and all for free religion in america the puritans and so forth. but they weren't? >> the puritans came to escape religious tyranny true but to establish their own religion, and once they got to massachusetts, they made that the official religion of the colony. they taxed people to support that religion. they persecuted other religions so in the northeast i

larry ioconi is an economist at chapman university and explained this to me.n it to our audience. >> well vnl a market phenomenon like other ones. and when you make the government the arbiter the funder of religion, it operates like a typical laszy monopoly. and incentives are lost. the clergy get focussed on pleasing the politicians. >> they just want to suck up to the king. >> at best, a combination of the american post office and public schools. >> what do you mean the united states was the first religious free market. >> it deregulated the religious market and let every religion practice freely. >> i always assumed people came here to escape religious tyranny. >> the puritans came here to escape religious tyranny, true, puritans came here to escape religious tyranny, true. but to establish their own religion. and when they got to massachusetts, they taxed people to support that religion, they persecuted other religions. so in the northeast, it was puritanism, or call van-- call van itch. elsewhere was ka catholicism. >> what changed? >> the american revolu

found wednesday at chapman university covered in caution tape and accusing them of racism and, of course speech rights. clayton? >> thank you, tucker. this year is estimated that americans will spend more on taxes than food clothing and housing combined. there is a silver lining. most states tax freedom days are coming up. when can you start keeping more of your hard earned money in your pockets or in the bank? here to break it down, travis h. brown the author of how money walks. and he is here to break it down with the big monitor this morning. nice to see you travis. >> good to be back. >> what is tax freedom day? explain that for us? >> tax freedom day nationwide is april 24th. the day when most americans will have earned enough to pay their federal, state and local tax burden. we get this from the tax foundation. and it varies by state, by your residency. depending on where you live across america. >> that means you have to work up and through the end of april that all goes to the federal government and then anything else on top of that is grave. but states have, you can have better