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Eric Boehm
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Pennsylvania native living in Virginia. Writes @Reason. Chronologically ambiguous. Stay hungry, stay free, and do the best that you can.
Arlington VA
Joined January 2010
RT @kpomerleau: DOGE will not balance the budget. The conventional wisdom is right: spending on major entitlement programs needs to be cu…
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On one hand... $800,000 per job created is probably pretty solid for a government program. On the other, holy freakin' moly that's terrible
Pretty good @wsj look at US washing machine tariffs (tl;dr: they supported 1800 mediocre US jobs at a consumer cost of $800k/job; haven't revived the SC community at issue; & were undermined by other US tariffs). But it omits an important pt: the new jobs aren't at the place originally hit by imports (Whirlpool in Ohio)
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RT @bendreyfuss: There are parts of the trans debate where I at least empathize with the conservative position. I don’t want kids making li…
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RT @horizonsreview: love how JD Vance realized that since the office of vice president is famously useless, the best use of his time is arg…
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RT @notjessewalker: Imagine a timeline where this starts taking up all his attention. He starts sitting in on auditions. He casts Cabinet m…
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RT @DominicJPino: The 10 percent credit card interest price control from pro-union @HawleyMO and @BernieSanders would ban most of the membe…
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"He's only 25 and will mature in time." He should be handed a federal job with huge power and responsibility. Pick one.
If possible, Marko Elez (@marko_elez) should be reinstated at DOGE. If that is not possible, we should fund him to do his own startup. Let me explain my logic. 1) First, there can be no negotiation with terrorists — or journalists. Giving a single inch to a journo on anything DOGE-related would be like firing Michael Flynn at the beginning of Trump’s first term. Nothing should be done in response to anything they write. 2) Second, the entire practice of digging through people’s old posts to find some negative remark should be deprecated. Some out-of-context remarks almost never represent the whole human being. 3) Third, to my Indian-origin followers — apparently Marko made some anti-Indian comments. Of course, I don’t love that. But he’s only 25, will mature in time, and is clearly very competent. I believe in capitalism and dialogue as a way to bridge this kind of divide. Not summary cancellation. TLDR: if possible, Elon should consider restoring Marko to DOGE.
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Tough break for @JDVance
Trump at press conference: Nippon Steel "agreed to invest heavily in US Steel, as opposed to own it, and that sounds very exciting."
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@scottlincicome So they're closing the de minimis loophole -- unless that's too much work, in which case nevermind?
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RT @JessicaBRiedl: NEW from me @reason. Republican lawmakers are betting that most of their $5 trillion tax cut proposal can be paid for wi…
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RT @BudgetHawks: ➡️JUST PUBLISHED: Find our full analysis of these proposals at This package could reduce revenue…
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