Marc Joffe
@joffemd
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President, Contra Costa Taxpayers Association. Visiting Fellow, California Policy Center. Formerly: Cato, Reason Foundation, Moody's. Posts are my own opinions.
Walnut Creek, CA
Joined January 2009
@Yahoozie23 @RichardHanania @ezraklein She has her own podcast and I certainly wouldn't call for that to be taken down. I just think she is not a sufficiently high quality guest for Ezra
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@7LayerMagik @RichardHanania @ezraklein Tesla sales were up in 2022 and 2023, and down 1.1% in 2024. So it would be inaccurate to say that they have been down over the past few yearS.
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Vermont's pandemic era population boomlet is over and people are once again moving out. The realities of living in a cold, high-tax state with limited job opportunities are once again taking hold. And, oddly, Burlington has a homelessness problem!
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To those assuming that ending penny production means that every thing will now be rounded to the nearest nickel: there are 240 billion pennies still out there (724 per US person) and electronic payments are unaffected.
For far too long the United States has minted pennies which literally cost us more than 2 cents. This is so wasteful! I have instructed my Secretary of the US Treasury to stop producing new pennies. Let's rip the waste out of our great nations budget, even if it's a penny at a time. Donald Trump Truth Social Post 09:27 PM EST 02/09/25
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My worry about GLP-1 has been that Medicare & Medicaid would have to pay $1300/mo for tens of millions of patients. Great to see Hims offering it for $165/mo during the Superbowl. Let's see more competition!
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@MarioNawfal CFPB is supposed to be funded from Federal Reserve earnings. But the Fed has been losing money for the last couple of years so it is debatable that continuing to fund it is even legal.
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Uh oh! The Star Spangled Banner at the Super Bowl was just played on a Japanese piano. Is that okay?
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@JohnArnoldFndtn The reference to UBS reminds me just how badly foreign banks screwed up in the US during the 90s and 00s.
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@dustofthewest Since Barbara Lee may turn much of Oakland into another TL, those folks should feel right at home.
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RT @KevinKileyCA: It makes no sense to plow ahead with High-Speed Rail just because we've already spent billions on it. This is exactly why…
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@se_slaughter2 @sfchronicle It's amazing that the toll booths are still there even though the toll collectors are long gone. Apparently MTC doesn't have enough money to implement open road tolling on all of its bridges.
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@se_slaughter2 @sfchronicle Over $6 billion when it was all done and our toll money is still going to pay interest on the money MTC borrowed to cover the overrun.
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@SukritGanesh Depends on whether the national standard is more or less restrictive than the status quo. The fact that we have nationally standardized on one year of graduate school for CPAs has exacerbated the accountant shortage.
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