Tom Giovanetti

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[Tom Giovanetti @tgiovanetti]

Catastrophizing elections leads to catastrophic nominees.

[Oliver Sherouse @OliverSherouse]

Throne. Of. Skulls.

[Tom Giovanetti @tgiovanetti]

@ShallowStateOp @DoodleSnark Thanks. But of course it would. At the margins people respond rationally to incentives. So subsidizing debt encourages more debt. Same with mortgage debt. It creates a huge distortion.

[Tom Giovanetti @tgiovanetti]

@ShallowStateOp @DoodleSnark That means not using tax policy to encourage certain activities with exemptions, credits or deductions, and not using it to punish other activities with punitive tax rates, etc. So that's one thing. Another thing? Simplicity. Every credit, deduction, exclusion creates complexity.

[Tom Giovanetti @tgiovanetti]

I'm not sure what to say here beyond "Damn, Ed!"

[Edward Longe, Ph.D @EdwardLonge]

Florida already did this. It's called SB 484, and utility tariffs implementing it are due tomorrow.

[Edward Longe, Ph.D @EdwardLonge]

Florida already did this. It's called SB 484, and utility tariffs implementing it are due tomorrow.

[Tom Giovanetti @tgiovanetti]

Unappreciated political reality is that the voters get tired of any president after about 5-6 years. Trump has dominated for 10.

[Scott Braddock @scottbraddock]

East Texas voter tonight: "If I'm gonna get fucked for four more years, can I at least look at a different face?"

[Tom Giovanetti @tgiovanetti]

@LSPmatt @GregAbbott_TX @GinaHinojosa (internal polling)

[Tom Giovanetti @tgiovanetti]

Is it in the common good to have presidents who repeatedly lie? Would common good conservatives call this behavior out? Nope.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Trump: If we had an honest election, I would have won California. I got millions of votes, but I would have won California if that were an honest system. I would have won

[Tom Giovanetti @tgiovanetti]

We've never had any politician in high office repeat obvious lies as often and as blatantly as Trump does. It doesn't even draw attention any more. We have become numbed to it. Thanks, Republicans, for this erosion in the common good.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Trump: If we had an honest election, I would have won California. I got millions of votes, but I would have won California if that were an honest system. I would have won

[Tom Giovanetti @tgiovanetti]

This is cool and they look great. Roxy Music's covers were always . . .

[The Extreme Music Enthusiast @TheExtremeMusi1]

The models from Roxy Music's 'Country Life' are shown 38 years later alongside the iconic album cover. Eveline Grunwald and Michael Karoli's sister, Constanze Karoli, appear in a 2011 photo from a Bryan Ferry exhibition. The women don’t resemble 60-year-olds.

[Tom Giovanetti @tgiovanetti]

Every day, hundreds of times, doctors ease patients into death with high doses of morphine. I watched it--I advocated for it--with my own father. Can someone explain why it isn't as simple as that?

[CBS News @CBSNews]

BREAKING: Christa Pike still has a heartbeat after Tennessee unsuccessfully attempted to execute her by lethal injection. https://t.co/vSyIjdXF76

[Tom Giovanetti @tgiovanetti]

@ShallowStateOp @DoodleSnark I could make 20 more points why tax deductibility for interest paid on car loans for American made cars is bad policy, but I'm not going to bother further.

[Tom Giovanetti @tgiovanetti]

@ShallowStateOp @DoodleSnark The tax code should not encourage anything, or discourage anything. It should not favor home buying, and it should not favor marriage. Government policy should be neutral and tax policy should be as simple as possible so it can be as fair as possible.

[Tom Giovanetti @tgiovanetti]

@ShallowStateOp @DoodleSnark Politicians use the tax code to buy votes. Trump used the tax code to buy votes in 2024. Paxton's "plan" is using the tax code to buy votes. Complexity in government is a subsidy for corruption and cronyism. And no one has demonstrated that more transparently than Trump.

[Tom Giovanetti @tgiovanetti]

@ShallowStateOp @DoodleSnark I've specialized in tax policy for 30+ years. A book could be written about why this is bad policy. In a free society with equality under the law, government policy should always prioritize neutrality. Shouldn't encourage certain legal activities and disfavor other activities.

[Tom Giovanetti @tgiovanetti]

And that was the correct vote.

[House Republicans @HouseGOP]

Every Democrat voted AGAINST letting you deduct car loan interest on American-made vehicles. Every. Single. One.

[Tom Giovanetti @tgiovanetti]

@rjrusak One of my favorite podcasts, listening two nights ago, 42 minute episode, had three (!) blocks of commercials, three commercials in each block (that's 9), the blocks were identical. Six commercials for social casinos and three commercials for female desire enhancement. I quit.

[Tom Giovanetti @tgiovanetti]

I have started crashing out of some of my favorite podcasts because they are overrun with social casino commercials and yes, some of them are yours.

[Tom Giovanetti @tgiovanetti]

@ShallowStateOp @DoodleSnark If you mean from me, you should consider the possibility that I don't spend 100% of my time on X. Jeez. You can't wait more than 1 hour for a response?