Patrick Gleason

vice president of state affairs at Americans for Tax Reform, @BeaconTN senior fellow.

[Marc Joffe @marcjoffe]

LA Measure ER has crept up to 49.2% as the count grinds on, now within reach of passing.

Many election workers belong to SEIU 721 which has put $500K into the Yes on ER campaign and will benefit if the sales tax passes.

[Nate Silver @NateSilver538]

It's hard to overstate how much of an outlier California is for its slow vote-counting relative to literally any other state or almost any other industrialized democracy.

[Bill Hammond @NYHammond]

A bill mandating that pharmacists receive a $10.18 "dispensing fee" for each prescription - which applies to health plans covering smaller employers and individuals - passed the NYS Assembly on the last day of session.

It would add ~$570M per year to drug costs

[Patrick Gleason @patrickmgleason]

@NancyMace I don’t think you need to pit those goals against one another, especially when local spending restraint is needed for the former and state spending restraint the latter

[Patrick Gleason @patrickmgleason]

Hahahahhahahahahahahahahah

[Nicholas Kristof @NickKristof]

A major new study published today by a panel of Democrats and Republicans ranks states by quality of life. The states at the top aren't the richest, and they don't have the highest tax rates -- although they do seem to do an unusually good job executing policy and sharing the wealth that they create. Often they have opposition parties strong enough to keep ruling parties nervous and effective.

To see which state ranks No. 1 and how your state ranks (slight tease!), here's a gift link: https://t.co/JfjLMfcGDk

[Jared Walczak @JaredWalczak]

Illinois lawmakers didn't think through their definition of social media platforms.

The new tax could capture WhatsApp, GitHub, Teams, Slack, Goodreads, Google Groups, iCloud, iMessage, Dropbox, Strava, Salesforce, Yelp, Indeed, Substack, maybe even Gmail accounts. #ILPolitics

[Charles C. W. Cooke @charlescwcooke]

Tom Steyer keeps running around saying that it’s unfair that billionaires like him can buy our democracy, then spending hundreds of millions dollars to do just that, then failing to get elected, and then repeating all the same lines the next time around. It’s extremely funny.

[Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 @pmarca]

Six years ago today.

[Jarvis @jarvis_best]

It is genuinely jarring to see this on network news

[Patrick Gleason @patrickmgleason]

“Real-world examples underscore the disparity. In Phoenix, a 2023 bond election authorizing hundreds of millions in spending drew just 22% turnout, compared to 77% turnout in the city’s 2024 general election” https://t.co/UuTLrr6uJW

[Patrick Gleason @patrickmgleason]

New Goldwater Institute report notes “off-cycle elections—contests held outside traditional November Election Days on even-numbered years—consistently produce sharply lower turnout, averaging just 26.9% participation, more than 40 percentage points below on-cycle elections”

[Patrick Gleason @patrickmgleason]

“That results in a smaller, less representative electorate that is older, wealthier, and more closely aligned with groups that have a direct financial stake in government spending.”

[James Pethokoukis ⏩️⤴️ @JimPethokoukis]

"From 2020 to 2025 it created roughly a fifth of all net new jobs in the country. It is only a matter of time before Texas overtakes California as the largest economy in America." https://t.co/t1nmlKoO35

[Patrick Gleason @patrickmgleason]

This assumes transplant Texans are less conservative than native born Texans. Polling shows this assumption is incorrect

[Liz Mair @LizMair]

Sure, but it's also worth noting that there are a lot of California refugees in Texas, and by 2020, they'd already succeeded in making Texas more competitive for Biden than *Ohio* or *Iowa* were.

My suspicion is that Texas still hasn't *quite* moved enough politically for Talarico to win, but I think this could be a very, very close race because of this, and depending on what happens with grocery and gas prices, he could pull it out because yes, California refugees just won't care about this stuff the way stereotypical Texan voters would. And there are a lot of them.

[Brian Balfour @BrianBalfourNC]

Actually Right to Work is not divisive at all, people are quite united in support.
71% approve to just 13% oppose.
#ncpol

[John Kartch @johnkartch]

The effort to force state DMVs to collect a federal car tax violates the anti-commandeering doctrine, as noted by @PatrickMGleason here.
https://t.co/jRPHFGBiGQ

[Dominic Pino @DominicJPino]

This is what Scott Walker did in Wisconsin in 2011.

Glad to see others outside of the conservative movement coming around to this conclusion! Let's get it done everywhere.

[Wall Street Journal Opinion @WSJopinion]

The AI Overwatch Act would help China. Stricter export limits would hurt American companies and blow the U.S. tech lead, writes @neil_chilson
https://t.co/BmnzISN4c4

[Ron DeSantis @RonDeSantis]

Citing the Supremacy Clause doesn’t mean that the federal government can commandeer a state to enforce its actions on its behalf.

See Printz v. United States (rejecting the federal government’s assertion of authority to commandeer state and local law enforcement to enforce federal regulation of firearms).

[Ron DeSantis @RonDeSantis]

Commandeering state DMVs into federal tax collectors is not constitutional.

The proposed tax is bad on its own, but this aspect is an attempt at usurping state sovereignty.

And, yes, the tax would be extended to all cars in no time. Just say no!