Tim Carney

Suburban dad of six kids.
Author, "Family Unfriendly" and "Alienated America."
Examiner senior columnist. AEI senior fellow.

[Tim Carney @TPCarney]

Children are anxious. Parents are stressed. Birthrates are at record lows.
The problem is our family unfriendly culture. Parenting culture is too intense. Mating & Dating culture is dysfunctional. And our values are too individualistic.
So I wrote a book. https://t.co/NVxHV9BIqh

[Tim Carney @TPCarney]

@AttyTMD Fair point. Other people probably feel Mogged by us.

[Tim Carney @TPCarney]

The Irish-Introvert's Goodbye.
I actually agree with Katie about not wanting to start an exodus. I don't think this is a problem if you're leaving very early, but at some point the party enters into the *still going* phase -- at that point, one departure can cause an exodus.

[Katie Carney @kgcarney]

I wonder if people agree: I think if you are leaving a party early it’s rude to say goodbye to the host. You don’t want to signal to anyone it’s time to go. Instead immediately upon departure send them a text thanking them and regrets for having to duck out early.

[Tim Carney @TPCarney]

This is one reason the Democrats and the news media are shifting from talking about taxing income to taxing wealth and "wealth gain."

[Frank J. Fleming @IMAO_]

I always suspect that anyone talking about taxing the rich is just trying to get their foot in the door to tax everyone, so I was wondering where is most of the income that isn’t yet taxed? It ain’t with the rich.

[Tim Carney @TPCarney]

@JohnsonEmma Thanks, Emma!

[Emma Johnson @JohnsonEmma]

I think about @TPCarney's book about 7 times / day. He lays out a family/society/life model that is about opposite of how I started out and most Western people live.
I had it wrong and he has it right.
Read his work if you are concerned about birth rates, housing prices, a civil society.

[Tim Carney @TPCarney]

@AlexNowrasteh Your grammar and syntax confuse me and so I don’t know what you are saying.

[Tim Carney @TPCarney]

I was never "supposed to be one of the reasonable ones" if that means believing that legal birth tourism is good policy.

[Carter Skeel @CarterSkeel]

How scalable is this as a solution to our marriage rate?

[Tim Carney @TPCarney]

Often when government gets bigger, someone well connected is getting rich.

[Kenneth P. Vogel @kenvogel]

NEW: The Trump administration just delivered a big win for kratom companies (including one that @SecMullinDHS is an investor in) that courted the president's team.

@DEAHQ today advanced plans to ban a popular rival drug, 7-OH, while leaving kratom alone. https://t.co/Z3LaLYL0iE

[Tim Carney @TPCarney]

A Nolan McLean gem, and a beautiful bullpen. Take the Ws when they come.

[Tim Carney @TPCarney]

@AndrewVernon4 Why is that funny?

[Tim Carney @TPCarney]

In the World Cup this year, I’m rooting for the United States of America, which is the greatest nation in the history of the world. Secondarily, I am rooting against Europe.

[Tim Carney @TPCarney]

In Europe, is “secondarily” not a word? I got multiple replies along these lines?

[Terry O' Neill @WBA1957]

@TPCarney Secondarily isn’t a word. And you’re talking crap. You’ve nothing against Africa or South America then?

[Tim Carney @TPCarney]

@paulfawcet11593 I look forward to that.

[Tim Carney @TPCarney]

@ManFromDeImonte I actually loved my education!

[Tim Carney @TPCarney]

@stangl_luk Sad! Sorry about Germany!

[Tim Carney @TPCarney]

@DorotaKot7 It’s not actually true that infant mortality is higher here. That’s an artifact of differing ways of measuring it.

[Tim Carney @TPCarney]

@lowerstacks That would displease me.

[Tim Carney @TPCarney]

@CRABY4 @Microinteracti1 I like poutine but not Vladimir.

[Tim Carney @TPCarney]

@mrdrali1 I just posted it to my small number of followers. I’m curious how you found my tweet if you don’t follow me.

[Tim Carney @TPCarney]

@YodaBlog I think we made the idea of freedom and opportunity for all a reality.