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Likes efficient taxes. Tax negative externalities, economic rents, and consumption. In that order.

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@AtticTruther The cameras encourage them to make stupid tirades that pander to their base.

(Although Tuberville might actually be this stupid)

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I don’t think there should be any television camera broadcast on congressional hearings and floor proceedings.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

TOMMY TUBERVILLE WARNS THAT “MANY” PILOTS, FLIGHT ATTENDANTS AND AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLERS ARE FURRIES: “Lord help us. It’s terrifying when you think about this.”

Tuberville claimed on the Senate floor that airline workers being part of the furry community poses a danger to passengers, saying a pilot “could have a deranged fetish of dressing up like an animal.”

[Caleb @Calebej37]

I love how Mike Lee is essentially completely insane except when it comes to permitting laws and stuff like the Jones Act where he turns into the Most Reasonable Man Alive

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@ChuckGrassley https://t.co/8YDYuXW5AJ

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What’s the point of Republicans if they don’t stop Warren-ite slopulism?

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@afellabeinaguy The contrast of having your smartest, most capable person in charge vs our dumbest, most reckless person in charge is astounding.

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Trump pissing on all of our allies and haphazard foreign policy has completely wrecked our global standing.

[BBC News (World) @BBCWorld]

Trump threatens 'serious tariffs' on EU over proposal to make Canada 'associate member' https://t.co/ztDaUohAvL

[John Lettieri @LettieriDC]

This is incredibly important. Politicians too often speak out of both sides of their mouths when it comes to corporate taxes: they demand firms invest in the "real economy" and then cry foul about full expensing -- the very policy that removes the tax penalty for doing just that.

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@carney @ScottJenningsKY No, they both miss the mark. The economic incidences of the CIT and tariffs are very different. Jennings seems to lack that nuance.

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@tonyannett https://t.co/LL6TyWmFGO

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The bottom 40% have negative net wealth. So any two people with positive wealth own more wealth than the bottom 40%.

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For years, this tree in my neighborhood had a Trump sign on it. It got taken down a week ago.

I have to assume the bottom is going to fall out for the Republican Party on midterms.

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@mattyglesias This is a disappointing post, Matt.

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@mattyglesias Fwiw, one of the authors of that paper has a new paper.

https://t.co/MspDy1Nx3z

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@AlexGodofsky Yeah it is wrong, everyone’s assessed value tracks current market value. Unless we are talking about a Prop 13-like situation.

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I want to know how real this is.

[Alex Godofsky @AlexGodofsky]

He alleged that new residential development in the city is a net negative from a tax perspective because the new real estate revenue from the development is lower than the marginal infrastructure and service cost. (New commercial development is net positive.)

[Daisy Christodoulou @daisychristo]

The best evidence that the fads might be causing this problem is that one of the few countries to escape the general fall in scores is England - also one of the few countries to explicitly reject the fads and take a different approach.

Contrast with Scotland - a similar country which had basically the same PISA scores as England in 2012.

Since then the two countries took very different educational approaches and Scottish students are now about a year behind English ones in maths & science (and behind by a smaller amount in reading).

I wrote about this in 2013, but it's even more stark now.

https://t.co/u3SKDfnlAh

[Sam Bowman @s8mb]

@RuxandraTeslo @nytimes I hope some day America learns to value individual choice and autonomy as much as we do here in Europe.

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@s8mb @PositivistWitch @RuxandraTeslo @nytimes Germany has a lot of good things to inspire to.

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Consumer choice of plans ✅

Continuous enrollment despite changing employment circumstances ✅

Can choose private plans with actuarially fair premiums ✅

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@GarrettPetersen @jtLOL Just wanted to answer your question. I know next to nothing about the Clancy case. :)

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@GarrettPetersen @jtLOL To lock-in low premiums for them. Indeed, the healthcare market would also work this way if it were a free market. Lock yourself *into* the market before you develop pre-existing conditions and are locked *out* of the market.