Conrad Vink 🔰

🔰= Georgist. Land value tax and basic income would fix this.

[Conrad Vink 🔰 @conradvink1]

@bobbyfijan Israel banned car alarms

[Conrad Vink 🔰 @conradvink1]

@atlanticesque Kind of a sad story, could have bought you the glass if you liked it, where's the harm

[Conrad Vink 🔰 @conradvink1]

@vulpine2020 Rayner - had a very clear manifesto objective to get housebuilding numbers up, watched them actually go down and did nothing about it. Can't believe she's back in the job after failing the first time

[Conrad Vink 🔰 @conradvink1]

@Land_Liberty Sometimes it feels likes a cult. "I call myself a neoliberal and all the neoliberals I know are big fans of VAT therefore I should love VAT too" without actual critical thinking about the policy

[Conrad Vink 🔰 @conradvink1]

@Land_Liberty The neolib love for VAT is strange. They get that trade generates price signals that help to allocate resources efficiently and that taxes on productive activity reduce output, then their #1 dream tax policy is to crank up a tax that goes against all of that

[Conrad Vink 🔰 @conradvink1]

@ClausVistesen @Finumus1 Sure, but the UK's healthy used car market depends on there being a healthy market for new cars to keep pumping in supply. If tax+regulation starts to suppress the new car market then the supply of second hand cars will fall and prices will rise

[Conrad Vink 🔰 @conradvink1]

@_night_brain__ Would have made sense to name the East London line Brunel seeing as both Brunels built the tunnel it runs through (and Isambard almost died on the job)

[Balthazar Grimm @BalthazarGrimm]

@Sam_Dumitriu @K_Niemietz @mattyglesias All the things we need to do are solved problems. People have been building dwellings on these island for 5000 years, trains are 19th century, nuclear is 1950’s tech. It’s maddening that we have just decided not to do them.

[Conrad Vink 🔰 @conradvink1]

@HCH_Hill Yes, homeownership (especially among under-40s) started falling around 2002, this was the start of the great stagnation in UK living standards

[Conrad Vink 🔰 @conradvink1]

@BisphamGreen 'I will stabilise Britain' was Starmer's big sales pitch and look how well that went for him

[Conrad Vink 🔰 @conradvink1]

@OnTheWoolsack Also "end rough sleeping" is an outcome, not an instruction. Beyond giving someone a trivial task, an instruction should include a big element of how this is to be done

[Conrad Vink 🔰 @conradvink1]

@DuncanStott The UK is lucky that its young don't have Canadian-style access to US work visas. If they did the brain drain would be pretty rapid

[Conrad Vink 🔰 @conradvink1]

@Tweets_of_Oscar Tea strength is mostly about the amount of caffeine and tannins though and these are water soluble. Caffeine solubility in water is definitely a function of temperature

[Conrad Vink 🔰 @conradvink1]

@vulpine2020 British journalists failed completely on Milei. They almost all just wanted to label him 'ultra-right' and move on. They were too lazy to analyse his actual economic reform agenda and his criticism of the status quo in Argentina

[Alex Toussaint @alextoussss]

Extremely excited to announce our first air-to-air kill of a flying moth by an autonomous micro-drone. This is a big step towards completely eradicating mosquitoes.

[Conrad Vink 🔰 @conradvink1]

@vulpine2020 Private renting going from 10% of households in the mid-1990s to 20% in the mid-2000s with no uptick in inequality indexes tells me they are missing something big

[Conrad Vink 🔰 @conradvink1]

@TheMindScourge This is similar to the 2025 romcom Afterlife where recently deceased people have to choose which version of heaven they want to commit to for eternity. Most people choose a comfortable version of the world they lived in when they were in their 30s.

[Conrad Vink 🔰 @conradvink1]

@HCH_Hill Lab and Con both keep pretending national government can create economic growth without upsetting the local government status quo. It is just not possible, either the confrontation happens or stagnation continues indefinitely.

[Conrad Vink 🔰 @conradvink1]

@BillTheKid1603 You'd think there'd be at least one that was tolerable, wouldn't you