Greg Lane

Saved by grace through faith. Exec VP of @BIAW2. Co-owner of @FirstLightOly with @SarahFrostLane. Husband, father and UW Husky. #GoHuskies #Woof

[Greg Lane @greg_lane]

How often do the Editorial Boards of the @seattletimes and @WSJ agree? They both say Vote YES on I-2066.
#VoteYesOn2066 #ProtectEnergyChoice #VoteYesPayLess

[Greg Lane @greg_lane]

Don't be fooled or misled by former Gov. Inslee or Democratic leaders in the Legislature. They are the ones who are actually responsible for your electricity rates increasing dramatically. If the Supreme Court rules I-2066 unconstitutional, rates will skyrocket higher! #waleg

[Todd Myers 🐟🌲🐝 @WAPolicyGreen]

Washington state's electricity rates are rising fast.

Some blame data centers, but electricity use in WA declined over the last decade.

AG Brown (@AGOWA) blames profit. But public utilities like @SEACityLight are also increasing rates.

The real cause is... 1/2 #waleg

[Bjorn Lomborg @BjornLomborg]

20 years ago, An Inconvenient Truth put climate change at the center of global debate, shaping politics, influencing leaders, and inspiring a generation of activists.

Two decades later, we can assess not just its impact, but its accuracy. Many of the film’s most alarming predictions did not materialize, while many of the policies it inspired have proven costly and ineffective.

The lesson? Panic is a poor guide for public policy. Focusing on innovation, adaptation, and economic development can do far more to help both people and the climate—at a fraction of the cost.

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[Tequilla @Tequilla_UW]

I’ve been meaning to do this for a while but with all the political debate in this state tied to the need for more “revenues” (taxes) to cover budget deficits … the need to understand WHY is important

A 🧵 on what I found when digging into publicly available state data

[Greg Lane @greg_lane]

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[Tim Anderson @AssocAnderson]

Many of you on the left are commenting that the decision was 4-3, as if the math somehow changes what actually happened. Four Justices on the Virginia Supreme Court canceled the votes of every person who voted “yes.” All the money. All the effort. Cancelled.

I know it is easy to blame the Court for what happened today. But here is the absolute truth:

The Virginia Democrats broke the law. They did it openly, blatantly, and with complete disregard for the consequences. They believed they were untouchable because they controlled the executive branch and the legislative branch. The acted like mob bosses with no accountability. But in a government with checks and balances - the Courts always have the final say.

Your vote was not canceled because four justices woke up and decided to invalidate an election. Your vote was canceled because Virginia Democrats put the Court in a position where the law required intervention.

You should absolutely be angry that your vote was taken away. But be angry at the people who ignored the law and caused this mess in the first place. If Democrats had simply followed the Constitution and done it correctly, none of this would have happened.

[Peter B @realpeteyb123]

Ok… most of you know I was in the organic baby formula business, but what you don’t know is I dabbled in diapers as well.

I also know this baby2baby “non profit” and have had past interactions with them.. I’ll leave that out for now..

Let’s dive into this absolute grifting nonsense. Prepare to be shocked.

California is about to spend $20 million of taxpayer money to give 100,000 newborns 400 diapers each through Baby2Baby.

Do the math with me:
100,000 babies × 400 diapers = 40 million diapers

$20,000,000 ÷ 40,000,000 = $0.50 per diaper!!!!!

Now walk into any Costco in California and you can buy the same quality diapers for .12 to .15 cents each!

That’s $48 to $60 for 400 diapers.
So the state is paying 8–10x more per diaper than a regular family buying in bulk.

They could’ve just handed every low-income new mom $100 cash and told her to go to Costco. She’d get more diapers, better ones if she wanted, and still have money left for formula, wipes, or whatever the hell she actually needs.

But nah… that wouldn’t let Gavin and his connected “nonprofit” girls running the show there cut ribbons, take photos, do galas and be friends with celebrities and brag about the “first-in-the-nation” program while skimming their cut for “administration” and “partnerships.”

This is peak government stupidity!!!

Spend way more money to feel good and look good, instead of just trusting parents with their own damn money.
We’re not helping babies. We’re funding another bloated nonprofit-government grift.

Math doesn’t lie. The diaper math is brutal.

What a scam and a joke!!!!!

[Andy Stevens 🇺🇸 @mrandystevens]

Thank you, @GeeScottSr for asking Jamie Pedersen that legit question. His disrespect for you was intentional and uncalled for, and I applaud how you handled it.

[Shane Kidwell @shanerkidwell]

There is a "No Kings" movement happening right now in Washington state. They wave every flag you can imagine...

The argument is that Republicans are operating like royalty. Unaccountable. Unelected. Making decisions that affect millions of people without a vote.

I want to talk about something closer to home. Who dictates your utility bill costs...

Puget Sound Energy serves 1.1 million customers in King and Snohomish counties. Snohomish County PUD serves another 370,000. Seattle City Light covers most of Seattle. Every single person in this region wakes up and pays whatever these utilities charge. You have no choice. You cannot switch providers.
PSE's electric bill is up 30% since 2023. If you are an Avista customer in eastern Washington, you are up over 40% since 2022. Nobody asked you. Nobody voted on it.

Here is how it happened.

Three people set PSE's profit rate. Not elected. All three appointed by Democratic governors. The current chair came from a clean energy advocacy organization. The governor who appointed him signed the law that requires PSE to make billions in new capital investments. Under the rules these three commissioners enforce, every dollar of that investment earns PSE a guaranteed 9.9% annual return. Collected from your bill. For decades.

The profits do not stay in Washington. PSE is owned by a consortium of Canadian and Dutch pension funds. Your utility payment leaves this state every month.

In King County, you can vote for your school board. Your city council. Your county executive. You cannot vote for a single person who decides what you pay for electricity.

That is not a Republican system. That is not a Democratic system. That is three people, appointed by one party that has held the governorship for 40 years, setting the price of a service you cannot refuse to buy.

The "No Kings" crowd wants you looking at Washington D.C.

I think we should start by looking at Olympia.

I publish the full research and sourced breakdowns on Substack every week. Search Shane Kidwell if you want the deeper dive.
@GovBobFerguson @komonews @KING5Seattle @KIRO7Seattle @fox13seattle @seattletimes

[Handre @Handre]

College tuition has exploded 1,200% since 1980 while wages rose just 213%. In 1963, a student could work a minimum-wage summer job and pay for a full year at the average public university. Today, that same job covers roughly one month of tuition. The culprit isn't corporate greed or underfunding. It's government intervention distorting every price signal in higher education.

Federal student loans created artificial demand that universities exploited ruthlessly. When government guarantees endless credit to teenagers with zero income or assets, colleges face no market constraint on pricing. Why charge $3,000 per year when students can borrow $30,000? The money flows regardless of educational quality or job prospects. Universities responded predictably: they jacked up prices and hired armies of administrators to capture this guaranteed revenue stream.

Easy credit always inflates asset prices, whether houses in 2005 or degrees today. Free market economists warned this would happen, just as they predicted the housing bubble. When you subsidize demand without increasing supply, prices skyrocket. Colleges simply absorbed every dollar of increased lending capacity into higher tuition, fancy dorms, and bloated bureaucracies.

The 1950s model worked because students paid real prices with real money; either their own or their parents'. This created immediate feedback between cost and value. If Harvard charged too much, students went elsewhere. Today, that price mechanism is completely severed. Students don't feel the true cost until years later when loan payments hit, and by then universities already pocketed the cash.

Every additional dollar of federal aid generates roughly 60 cents of tuition increases. The government created this monster, feeds it annually through increased lending limits, then acts shocked when colleges behave exactly like the rent-seeking cartels they've become.

[Greg Lane @greg_lane]

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[Handre @Handre]

The greatest economic experiment in America plays out daily between California and Texas, and the results scream one truth: markets work, bureaucrats don't.

California collected $220 billion in state taxes in 2023 while Texas managed with $78 billion. You'd expect California's superior public services to justify spending nearly three times more per capita. Instead, California leads the nation in homelessness (181,000 people), hosts crumbling infrastructure despite the nation's highest gas taxes, and watches middle-class families flee to states that don't treat productivity as a crime. Sacramento's bureaucrats burn through $600 billion annually (state and local combined) yet somehow can't keep the lights on during summer or prevent human waste from covering sidewalks in San Francisco.

Texas collected far less but delivered what people actually want: functioning infrastructure, reliable energy, and the revolutionary concept that you keep most of what you earn. Since 2010, Texas gained 4 million residents while California hemorrhaged over 500,000. This isn't random migration; it represents human capital fleeing confiscatory taxation in search of economic freedom. Tesla, Oracle, and Hewlett-Packard didn't relocate to Texas for the weather.

Voluntary exchange creates wealth while coercive redistribution destroys it. Every dollar California's legislature redistributes first gets extracted from someone who earned it, then filtered through bureaucratic machinery that consumes massive resources while producing zero value. Meanwhile, every dollar Texans keep in their pockets gets invested, saved, or spent according to individual preference—generating real economic activity.

California's political class promises paradise through taxation while delivering dysfunction through redistribution. Texas proves you can fund essential government services without turning citizens into tax cattle for an ever-expanding administrative state.

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[Greg Lane @greg_lane]

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