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I put too much effort into this joke.

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@BasedQian @cremieuxrecueil I take your point, but the Republicans also had the presidency from almost all the time from 1969 to 1993.

They were hardly out of power.

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@Clearingfog_ @TaylorPearsonMe Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids: Why Being a Great Parent Is Less Work and More Fun Than You Think

Bryan Caplan

https://t.co/bFViIB339x

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@mnolangray @mattyglesias *Should* California YIMBY be moving more on zoning?

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@JeffMightBWrong I’m interested! Drop the link!

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@big_pedestrian They also have “Free (or Cheap) College for Seniors and Retirees in All 50 States”:

https://t.co/nNVTY3NL1W

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@mattyglesias @MattBruenig I’ll also add that the 1993 budget act involved a Democrat-controlled congress, making it a better reflection of what Clinton/Dems wanted to do.

Welfare reform happened under a Republican-controlled congress in 1996.

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@ouranometrian2

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@mattyglesias For anyone else looking for his source, I think it might be this:

https://t.co/NtMq9zBufM

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@robinhanson Isn’t Japan’s debt-to-GDP ratio the most concrete evidence available?

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@robinhanson I emphatically support prediction markets for “big debt” but I think it would have the opposite effect.

-It is cheap to claim debt is scary.
-It is expensive to bet on an outcome that never seems to come.

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@PoliticsFan10 @jmhorp The short version?

The Ferguson Effect:

https://t.co/gU791UOjLk

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@kn_owled_ge @ojblanchard1 Please explain this, for all of us who don’t know why you “can credit [your] personal wellbeing to” Stan, and why “all Israelis have such a debt of gratitude” to him.

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@rSanti97 @LudditeHacker Isn’t the fact that DOGE “has not reduced the debt” evidence that “DOGE folks are” *not* “really, truly, obsessively focused on the national debt”?

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@eigenrobot @LieutenantRusty …and you were right to.

Well done.

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@25YearsAgoLive That’s not how I remember it!

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@bryan_caplan Are you trying to say that DEI officers provide a lot of productive and useful services to the community?

…because that is definitely what this visual implies.

Richard Scarry was NOT trying to imply that the answer to his titular question was ‘not much’.

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@tomri33le @mattyglesias Some discussions are about how to win elections, like through popularism.

Other discussions are about accurately describing reality.

This discussion is an example of the latter.

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@ChrisKartalia @mattyglesias

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@skyiszen @NickTimiraos

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@jmhorp If Trump proposes building “a negative railroad” tomorrow, I’m blaming you.