privatize social security

@Maxthecat5905 The Epstein Files Transparency Act was perhaps one of trump's worst bills he signed.

@DMcgeezak "I'm socially liberal except on crime"

@CoopTory Hong Kong isn't exactly a free market paradise but unlike some of their east asian neighbours they did grow without as much statist industrial policy.

Another shot against the “Hong Kong is free market privatised paradise!” crowd. Crown corporations should leverage their assets to generate more revenue and develop expertise in-house. It lowers costs to taxpayers and results in better services from the wholistic designs.

My latest on how Mamdani and Menin managed to fix the budget crisis and freeze the status quo in amber.

@The_Clermontian @MobyDickSpoiler @Zeitsturm

@MakeUSAVAT @MobyDickSpoiler She is not

All this guy does is dunk on me and then snap me saying which microcelebrities found it funny

@MobyDickSpoiler @The_Clermontian isn't zeit a lesbian though?

@The_Clermontian True 💀

@motikiro2 @MobyDickSpoiler @DirteeeMartini

それぞれの寝方

@The_Clermontian @punished_casa cler what am I?

@punished_casa Thats called being open, not moderate

2015: apolitical 2016: apolitical 2017: apolitical 2018: apolitical 2019: apolitical 2020: woke ish lolbert 2021: lolbert 2022: moderate conservative 2023: moderate conservative 2024: moderate conservative 2025: moderate conservative 2026: moderate conservative

@IrishPatri0t name a burnham voter who otherwise votes for reform

I think it goes without saying that if Burnham is only 3% ahead in a 2 horse race then he's losing

Very excited to launch a project I've been helping out with the last couple months.* The Center for Shared AI Prosperity is an attempt by an, other than me, very impressive team (so far including @davidshor, @katz_morris, @StefFeldman, @maidinoff, Lindsay Lamont, Jesse Stinebring, @joshhendler, @goldman, and Lilah Penner Brown) to force DC policy elites to take the impending economic impacts of advanced AI more seriously. We do not think this is a normal economic shock, though we are deeply uncertain about what kind of economic shock it will be. We could be left with a world of extreme power and wealth concentration, increasing political instability arising from that growing inequality, and deep questions about how to fund governments that have for a century-plus relied on income and payroll taxes. Our main purpose as an organization is to surface tractable ideas to reform and grow the safety net to meet the moment; to restructure the labor market so workers are still valued and fairly paid; to remake the tax code so that the gains from AI are shared widely; and to experiment with ways of giving average Americans concrete shares in the AI surplus. To that end, we're running a Request for Ideas, and we're offering $3,000 for the best proposals. Top ideas will get rigorous polling from Blue Rose Research to see how Americans feel about them. We are trying to solicit submissions from a wide pool, and purposefully don't want to just ask the usual think tanks, economists, academics, etc. (Though we want them too!) If you have ideas that you think could be useful, please don't hesitate to apply. Feel free to reach out to me if you have any questions about the program. Read more here: csaip.org *Obligatory disclaimer: I'm doing this on my personal time, not in my capacity at Coefficient Giving. Nothing I or CSAIP say necessarily reflects CG's views.

@Mental339631 just ban websites, we already ban cp no reason beyond perhaps the 1st amendment we couldn't ban ap

@MakeUSAVAT How?

prohibition.

@PolitlcsUK @JohnWakefieId

🚨 NEW: Andy Burnham’s slogan for the Makerfield by-election will be "For Us"

@Mental339631 Yes!

@MakeUSAVAT Would you also try to limit pornography?

Left leaning economists don’t even try argue anymore, they just post feet pics

Most of Reagan's increase in the debt was from higher interest rates (and lower inflation). The below photo shows three counter factuals: lower interest rates, lower inflation, and both combined.

@avrilbradley23 it's a rather elite thing to think that culture wars are what mainly decided the 2024 election.

Critical thinking is when you think the median voter prioritizes woke casting choices over inflation.

@talmonsmith @MaxJerneck The primary deficit actually wasn't that large during the era, had interest rates been lower then then much of the debt wouldn't have happened. Also the lower inflation of that era meant that debt to GDP went more up since lower nominal gdp growth. jwmason.org/slackwire/the-…

@MaxJerneck interest payment increases matter for sure as did the recession decrease in tax receipts but i imagine tax cuts while ramping up other spending play a heavy role. not that deficits are inherently bad. + the appetite for that eras bonds was incredible

still learning but i rly struggle to believe this line that actually the EMTRs on the rich werent that high in 1950-1980 if thats the case why did the rich and corporations work so hard for tax cuts in the 70s and 80s and why did deficits blowout afterward (as revenues fell off)

Be for real please.

Americans' Views of Japan (1989-2021)

@n30n5223434 cc @tacitdimension @avrilbradley23 they aren't exactly comparable since japan was much more of an ally but I bet many of today's china hawks would have also been japan bashers in the 1980s.