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Update: French people now produce 7% less carbon emissions of the average person on Earth

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2 years

It's incredible that French people have about triple the income as the average person on Earth, but produce basically the same carbon emissions. Nuclear is a hell of a power source.

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Always baffling that "it should be legal to build apartments on lots where you can currently only build mansions" is remotely controversial on the left.

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Literally every top comment on NPR's housing story is shortage denial

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It's incredible that French people have about triple the income as the average person on Earth, but produce basically the same carbon emissions. Nuclear is a hell of a power source.

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Last Friday, a driver killed my friend Supervisor @carmen4oxnard as she was crossing the street. Today, the police released that the driver used a 2020 GMC Sierra 2500. These machines make me sick.

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2 years

This is your city on rent control

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1 year

Friends, colleagues, may I present to you: the California Marginal Tax Rate Schedule

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Max Ghenis

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3 years

Just looked up my friend's house in Palo Alto, which his dad bought in 1972. Redfin estimate: $3.5 million Assessed value: $158,000 They're paying a property tax rate below 0.05%. If imputed rents were treated as income, this would be an income tax rate below 2%. End Prop 13.

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Max Ghenis

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6 months

For every 5 likes this gets, I will ask ChatGPT to make this marginal tax rate schedule look more absurd.

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2 years

"BlackRock owning half a percent of single-family home rentals is why inflation is the highest it's been in 40 years" is peak Dan Price

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2 years

@business this is especially rich considering this "entitled generation" hasn't been able to buy homes largely because BlackRock buys up all the homes and jacks up rents (which is also the biggest source of inflation).

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Riding a Megabus back from NYC to DC because it was $200 cheaper than Amtrak (one way), and remembering the NIMBYs who demonized these exact cramped buses as "luxury" when Googlers had to take them because Mountain View City Council wouldn't let them live near their job.

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Max Ghenis

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4 years

It's peak DSA to take an opportunity to house 170 families, including 24 low-income ones, and oppose it for aesthetic reasons under the guise of anti-"luxury" sentimentality. (This is DSA LA's housing & homelessness chair.)

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2 years

Senior @BernieSanders staffer's pinned tweet compares inflation-adjusted wages to nominal costs

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11 months

what is y’all most liked tweet?

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2 years

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Love him or hate him, @MattBruenig is an exceptionally thorough policy analyst.

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4 years

The mortgage interest deduction literally makes the same home cheaper for a rich person than for a poor person.

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3 years

The Child Tax Credit already has a work requirement: you have to spend 18 years turning a nonverbal neonate into a functional human being.

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5 years

Imagine for a moment: You've lost your job and decide to apply for SNAP (food stamps) to feed your family. You go to the county human services agency for your qualification interview. The waiting room is filled with homeless people and you worry about your life trajectory. 1/

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1 year

"My folks helped me buy a home" is a funny euphemism Bro your parents just handed you six figures of wealth

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@MaxGhenis

3 years

Well I'll be damned

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@profwolff

3 years

Inflation occurs when employers raise prices. Profit drives their decisions. But they dare not publicly admit that reason. Instead they blame gov't or rising wages or "shortages" etc.: anything/anyone but themselves. Dont be fooled.

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Not in their executive summary, not in their full report, but in a separate methodology note, Oxfam mentions that “since 2020” means “since March 18, 2020” (the trough of the Covid downturn) for billionaires, but it means “since 2019” for the 5 billion who they claim lost wealth.

OxfamAmerica

@OxfamAmerica

4 months

Inequality is out of control. Our new report #InequalityInc finds that the 5 richest men doubled their wealth since 2020, while 5 billion people were made poorer. Thank you @RBReich for sharing.

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2 years

The policy question is pretty simple: Should families have to buy mansions to live in a place, or should we allow them to share an apartment building with other families?

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Max Ghenis

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6 months

For every 10 likes this gets, I'll ask ChatGPT to further illustrate how Land Value Tax Would Solve This

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Max Ghenis

@MaxGhenis

5 years

These are the experiences our safety net puts people through. 40 million people are on SNAP, and other programs can be even more burdensome. We gate access, we surveil, we restrict choices. We humiliate. We spend billions in administration to do this. Just. Give. Cash. /end

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With 5% interest, your fortune would be 100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 times larger than the average fortune of the 5 richest billionaires.

Public Citizen

@Public_Citizen

4 years

It's 2589 BC. The Egyptians are building the Giza Pyramids. You are immortal. You have $0. You decide to save $10,000 every day, never spending a cent. 4609 years later, it's 2020. You only have only one-fifth the average fortune of the 5 richest billionaires. Tax the rich.

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If this single parent of two in California earns $10k, they take home $38k. If they earn $50k, they take home $49k. That's a 73% marginal tax rate over a $40,000 earnings range. And that's without childcare and housing subsidies!

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Max Ghenis

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2 years

Incredible

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Max Ghenis

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3 years

Horrendous backtrack from Yang

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Max Ghenis

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2 years

This is cringe. If NYC and California want to ban soda, so be it. But don't ban it just for poor people.

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Max Ghenis

@MaxGhenis

3 years

Romney's child allowance would have over 5x the poverty impact of raising the minimum wage to $15 per hour, and it would do it immediately instead of waiting until 2025. Family Security Act: 5.1 million ( @NiskanenCenter ) Raise the Wage Act: 0.9 million ( @USCBO )

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1 year

I want a word to express being proud of a prompt

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Max Ghenis

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2 years

Remember when 40% of Americans couldn't cover a $400 emergency expense with cash? That was 2017. Today, it's down to 32%, from 50% in 2013.

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@TheOmniZaddy Until we nationalize the catering industry, marriage equality is nothing but a corporate handout

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2 years

By golly, she did it.

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Max Ghenis

@MaxGhenis

3 years

You're telling me the IRS couldn't get a better URL than freefilefillableforms dot com/#/fd/childtaxcredit ??

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@MaxGhenis

3 years

carbon dividends

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@MaxGhenis

2 years

"WE'RE FULL" chanted the YIMBYs as the vehicle tried to enter their utopia of density and walkability

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@MaxGhenis

4 years

Ruin an economic policy by changing one letter.

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Max Ghenis

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2 years

@PippengerHarlo Wrong but would still be good on environmental grounds if it were true

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Max Ghenis

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3 years

The extent to which MMT has harmed liberal policy is severely underrated. Kelton & co took a whole generation of people most demographically inclined to support taxes, and turned them against the only path to a sustainable, generous welfare state any country has ever taken.

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Max Ghenis

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2 years

I love this graphic from @alfred_twu and @cayimby so much. It's beautiful both at an abstract level and more specifically with respect to the situation it depicts: multifamily housing enabling a multigenerational family to live comfortably together. That's what community's about.

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Max Ghenis

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5 years

This @PreetBharara interview is the most compelling one I've heard of a 2020 candidate. @SenatorBennet is the kind of thoughtful, caring, liberal, policy-oriented leader this country needs. Interview starts at 13:35.

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4 years

researching candidates for local office in the suburbs

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Max Ghenis

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3 years

The effective tax rate on the annual income from this home's rental value in California is 26-28%. That's with no other income. Our aristocratic, anti-renter tax code gives a tax break of over 90% to those who've been made millionaires through sheer luck and then kept in place.

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They really did it. @MayorSiddiqui took a guaranteed income pilot and made it a full policy--welfare cliffs and all. If a family of four earns $75,000, they get $9,000 from @riseupcambridge . If they earn $75,001, they get $0.

Cambridge will start giving low-income families $500 cash monthly

The program aims to combat poverty and income inequality by providing direct cash payments to families with children under the age of 21 who earn at or below 250% of the federal poverty level. (For...

www.wbur.org

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Max Ghenis

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2 years

The police haven't arrested the killer.

Details emerge in Carmen Ramirez crash, investigation continues

Authorities released more details about the accident that killed former Ventura County Supervisor Carmen Ramirez, though the investigation is ongoing.

www.vcstar.com

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Max Ghenis

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4 years

A real failure of regulation is noisy vehicles. Most regulations come with some real economic cost, but removing mufflers doesn't benefit anyone, it just wakes people up and makes it impossible for people with soft voices or hearing loss to communicate on city streets.

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3 years

we did it

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Max Ghenis

@MaxGhenis

4 years

Because land use in America is undemocratically controlled by the tiny share of the population that attends local meetings, and these people overwhelmingly hate anything that threatens car-centrism, including transit and the density required to sustain transit.

StrictlyRockers 🇺🇦🌻

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4 years

How come Japan gets cool shit like suspension monorail trains, and we don't? 😠😖

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3 years

Broke: Child Tax Credit Woke: Child Allowance Bespoke: Universal Baby Income

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Max Ghenis

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5 years

STOP making fun of reasons for UBI Ending poverty is MORALLY IMPERATIVE Supporting people without traditional employment is INCLUSIVE Avoiding bureaucracy and welfare cliffs is EFFICIENT Saving the world from tech apocalypse Giving cash over in-kind benefits is LIBERATING

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Max Ghenis

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3 years

a) Canada's $2,000/month ($500/week) was only for people who lost their job due to Covid, like our $600/week FPUC program b) You couldn't claim it on top of normal unemployment, unlike FPUC c) $2,000 CAD = $1,560 USD Canada's program was way less generous than our program.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

@AOC

3 years

Canada did $2,000/monthly. The US is the richest nation on earth and a 2nd stimulus check is getting blocked bc GOP want corporate bailouts & austerity in “exchange” for it. Maybe if everyone in the US incorporated as an LLC, Mitch McConnell would actually do something for them.

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3 years

My op-ed in today's @NYDailyNews summarizes my analysis of @AndrewYang 's "Basic Income for NYC" plan, and concludes it's a step ahead of his rivals' economic plans. "It’s not UBI, but it moves toward the more unconditional, inclusive safety net we need."

A deeper dive into Yang’s income plan

Andrew Yang’s two political campaigns have centered around an unconventional policy idea: just give people money. He ran for president on a policy to give $1,000 per month to every adult citi…

www.nydailynews.com

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Max Ghenis

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California ranks: #8 on GDP per capita #7 on welfare spending per capita #50 on housing units per adult #1 on poverty We need more inclusive welfare programs (like UBI) AND we need to legalize apartments.

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Max Ghenis

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Last Sunday, my stepdad Marc @GIdocgalaxy chose to end his 30-year battle with MS. I miss him terribly, but I'm profoundly grateful that Oregon lawmakers gave him a choice in his suffering. Still, we can do better. 🧵

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Megabus is the budget alternative to Amtrak for a reason. It's crap, and spending 2-3 hours on a bus every dau is soul-sucking. Anyone on those gBuses would have taken Caltrain if they could, But because the seats had Google stitched in, they were somehow luxury. Total bad faith.

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@MaxGhenis

5 years

Heard a novel NIMBY complaint last night: residents in new apartments will slow down the internet.

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Max Ghenis

@MaxGhenis

2 years

. @DaveChappelle is a NIMBY

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Max Ghenis

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2 years

Good to have confirmation of what was obvious at the time: giving people money is way more progressive than giving businesses money. If not for everyone in charge having Small Business Brain, we could have doubled every stimulus check and cut poverty dramatically.

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In its current form, the Child Tax Credit cuts child poverty 7% and deep child poverty <1%. Restoring the American Rescue Plan Act's Child Tax Credit would cut child poverty 37% and deep child poverty 72%.

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3 years

Incredible

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3 years

Yet another upside of Romney's child allowance: it violates Biden's Norquistian pledge not to raise taxes on Americans earning under $400,000 per year.

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2 years

@wwwojtekk @GunnelsWarren For the onlookers: the Majority Staff Director for the Senate Budget Committee Chair just wrote a bogus tweet and blocked an Economics professor at Columbia who's also the editor of the Journal of Public Economics and president of the International Institute of Public Finance

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The Americans for Tax Reform cover photo selection intern deserves a raise

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@PramilaJayapal Indeed, they should not be true and they are not true.

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@SpicyLoop @dwallacewells Yeah though the gap between consumption- and production-based emissions is pretty similar between France and other high-income countries

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2 years

I think folks in the Effective Altruism community are currently overstating their interest in deontology to distance themselves from SBF's potentially utilitarian motives. That's probably the right thing to do in utilitarian terms, but I find it a bit deontologically off-putting.

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Max Ghenis

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3 years

Unironically it's crazy how many people put >100% of their net worth into a single undiversified high-maintenance volatile asset. Renting is good!

Arpit Gupta

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3 years

Spending $400,000 on a house seems like the kind of thing to me that, intuitively, you do when you have like a couple million in wealth and make $400,000 a year.

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I know I should be over it by now, but the frequency with which NIMBYs living in single family homes describe new apartments and condos as "luxury," despite them often costing half the alternative or less, still astounds me.

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"I find that adopting a land value tax that replaces Proposition 13 based property taxes would increase housing production by 35%" !!

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Economics shedding light on the notoriously endogenous question of nutrition. A regression discontinuity from the end of the post-WWII rationing of sugar and sweets in 1953 in the UK shows that sugar-rich diets early in life harm well into adulthood.

The Sweet Life: The Long-Term Effects of a Sugar-Rich Early Childhood

www.nber.org

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Max Ghenis

@MaxGhenis

4 years

Step 1: Get famous writing a book advocating UBI and open borders Step 2: Endorse the most anti-UBI anti-open-borders candidate

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Here’s who I would vote for: Bernie Sanders. /2

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. @AndrewYang 's centerpiece policy would have reduced poverty more than anything in American history. He proposed the kind of broad-base taxation we need to fund European-level safety nets. He showed Sanders and Trump supporters the virtues of pragmatic liberalism. Thanks, Andrew.

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Limiting your means-tested EV tax credits to US-made union-labor vehicles is not how you demonstrate seriousness about climate change

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@sweatystartup @seandsweeney We don't need housing subsidies we need apartment legalization

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Max Ghenis

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3 years

I'm working on scoring a negative income tax plan, and folks, let me tell you, UBI looks better and better the more you look at competing ideas. The cost of poverty alleviation shouldn't only be borne by people below 200% of the poverty line.

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@lee_ohanian @HooverInst It's literally regulatory reform. The teeth to the top down mandate are cities losing regulatory authority.

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4 years

Finally watched Crazy Rich Asians, and I have to say, it was a bit unrealistic that such a prodigy of an economist would be so enthusiastic about microloans in 2018. Read a Karlan paper, Rachel!

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Two single minimum-wage parents fall in love. 💘 If they get married, they lose over $600 per month together. 💔 For #ValentinesDay , let's fix marriage penalties.

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The week the chief shills trolled the neolibs

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@DARosenthal Building housing is what slows displacement, no nativist policies needed

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4 years

What do Amazon, Gilead, and Netflix have in common? They're holding society together and preventing deaths amid a historic crisis. Should we also punish ventilator manufacturers for growing their revenues?

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Depending on their income, a UK family with three children repaying student loans can face marginal tax rates up to 96%. That means if their wage is £25/hour, they're only taking home £1/hour.

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Max Ghenis

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Wow! Bernie acknowledges M4A would cost $30T. That's almost double the total revenue he's proposing, on his own website according to his own estimates. And that doesn't include the GND, which he's himself pegged at $16T. "We have options that will pay for it." That's a lie.

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Anderson Cooper asks Bernie the cost question again

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Y I K E S

Nate Golden

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4 years

So Republican support for protesting is cut in half when you simply add the word “Black” before the word “Americans”.

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California Republicans have introduced a half-billion-dollar bill that would give tax credits to homeowners if they live in fire zones. Also it's non-refundable. Also it has a welfare cliff. And a marriage penalty for parents.

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By removing parking mandates near transit, AB1401 would have made California's housing cheaper, its streets safer, and its air cleaner. But because it'd cost 0.00005% of the state budget, it had to go to an Appropriations Committee, where its NIMBY chair killed it without a vote.

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UBI community: Did you know that 29 House members today introduced a bill to give a monthly cash payment to every person in America? This is not a drill! This is not April Fool's! Call your member of Congress and ask them to support the Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act!

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Max Ghenis

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Tax reforms don't go through decades of local pilots before being enacted. Benefit reforms shouldn't need to either.

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Not sure I agree with this but, per James's next tweet, it seems bad for society that the only price most people see every day is gasoline. Of all the goods and services out there, why do we let fossil fuel companies specifically plaster their prices throughout our communities?

James Medlock

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We should mandate hospitals display the cost of a few things like insulin, childbirth, and inhalers on big signs like this plastered everywhere

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Max Ghenis

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It saddens me to see children supporting continued segregation and disinvestment. But it also angers me to see public dollars propagandizing this view to preserve the status quo.

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Max Ghenis

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As someone without deep knowledge of each NYC mayoral candidate, I find it odd how much media coverage describes Yang's competitors as more liberal or progressive than him without comparing their stances on any public policies.

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The biggest ROI in YIMBYism would be education on urban economics to get this 42% to 100%. Half the movement is unable to articulate how this is good for homeowners, and a large share believes what they're doing is harming the most important voting bloc in local politics.

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@JohnDelaney The anti-development movement has also made climate change worse!

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