@nominalthoughts We should end the 401k and use the money to fund social security

RT @RubenGallego: Kari, don’t you have a job? Oh wait..

RT @skep_observer: Cibola County, NM (40% Native, 33% Latino) President K. Harris🔵: 4,450 (49.6%) D. Trump🔴: 4,311 (48.0%) 🔵+139 (1.6%) S…

@avrilbradley23 @mattyglesias The problem with Clinton was that he listened too much to Robert Rubin so he gave up on campaign promises in his first 2 years in order to do austerity.

@mattyglesias I agree. The US collects less revenue as portion of GDP on average compared to other OECD countries because we don't have a VAT.

@ZohranKMamdani Seems like it would be very high as a percent of the median wage in New York.

@DrewSav You say that now but

@AlanMCole You can use the example of different states having different sales tax rates to show why a vat isn't a trade barrier.

@MattLech Funny enough, a think tank of the DLC, progressive policy institute is still alive. They even have a copy of the politics of evasion still up

@mattyglesias He made this mistake back in 2016

@JDKromkowski @Noahpinion @federalreserve We don't want 0% inflation.

@MAGA_YIMBY We need a bunch of ship building subsides to compete with china.

@petrock Taxes are used to finance spending. You can still believe they finance spending while also believing we don't need to run a balanced budget.

@IrishPatri0t What did yakub mean by this?

@atlanticesque It also forgets many Latinos are already citizens or legal immigrants.

RT @atlanticesque: I think some people don’t realize that during the Biden era, “illegal immigrants” stopped meaning Mexicans and started m…

RT @MattAFiedler: Since it seems we'll be talking more about Medicaid work requirements in the coming weeks, re-upping this thread from 202…

@MattBoxer94 Democrats are lucky Trump isn't smart. if he was truly smart he would kick out Elon right now, start listing to Bannon again and doing actual populist things. Trump failed to be successful in his first term by listening to more Paul Ryan types rather than Bannon types.

@StatisticUrban I didn't expect West Virginia.

@PEWilliams_ Assuming r<g, then does it really matter if the government loses 20 billion dollars in gold? it can just fund that amount with deficit spending and growth will erode its effect on Debt to GDP overtime.