'Smash and Grab' Meets 'Build Back Better'

New Hampshire Journal

New Hampshire Journal
'Smash and Grab' Meets 'Build Back Better'
Dec 21, 2021
Michael Graham and Drew Cline

In this double-barreled edition of the New Hampshire Journal podcast, Dr. Jay Kennedy of Michigan State University talks about how the surge of 'smash-and-grab' robberies and mass shoplifting events are actually being fueled by shoppers like you.

Kennedy, who is part of the USA-IT effort to fight organized retail crime and the black market economy, says criminal gangs are using theft and counterfeits to fill orders from unsuspecting shoppers on the internet.

And Brandon Arnold of the National Taxpayers Union breaks down the Build Back Better bill and why, he says, it's a legislative nightmare. Drew Cline of the Josiah Bartlett Center joins in to talk BBB math, budgets and the "I" word.

Hosted by Michael Graham.