Nikhil Woodruff
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@nikhil_woodruff
@rcolvile
You'll have a long career annoying people with stupid ideas. Must be a lib dem
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Chris Mason, BBC: "Do you accept you've made it harder for people to pay their bills?"
Truss: "First of all, I have said sorry,"
My God. What a gift of a quote to Labour.
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Best of luck to the specific two people the Times project to die by ketamine
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I think if people do this they should have to pay property taxes on their self-assessed value of >$50m
family turns down $50M from developer who built suburb around their home
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“The difference now is we can decide how much foreign Labour we receive”. Lol no we can’t, as evidenced by the fact we literally can’t get enough.
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Is this a warning of what Labour would do if in power?
👉 Override local views?
👉 Inhibit MPs from speaking out?
👉 ‘Get tough’ on anyone who stands in its way?
Expressing local opinion into the bigger debate is a fundamental function of our modern democracy.
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@denby_sarah
@BenMcGowan_
So they deserve to be fenced, because they got out of their fences? Medieval witch-hunters would be impressed at this level of mental gymnastics
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@BBCBreakfast
This is a lie, it’s over 6 hours. The BBC should not be uncritically repeating lies, and I encourage everyone who reads this to submit a complaint here:
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@d_r_boat
You’re right, really they’ve been obscenely rich for a while and we just haven’t known it but I’m willing to forgive previous under-taxation
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I feel like I'm going insane. Why is this not a matter that the Met should be acting on and one they're currently failing to. Why is this dependent on a new law coming in
This content is distributing and upsetting.
Yet another example of how we desperately need the Online Safety Bill to hold the social media platforms to account.
Youtube & TikTok seem happy to allow this irresponsible content to proliferate on their platforms.
It’s unacceptable
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It must be so reassuring to think all the good outcomes of your school are because of your specific methods and all the bad outcomes are because of innate personal choices of other people.
here is the clip - first it's cos girls don't like the maths, which is then "a natural thing" and then she's totally fine with physics a-level only being 16% girls.
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@ryxcommar
Lol what. I mean I'm as Americapilled as it comes but come on Mediterranean cuisine is really amazing
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Not often I say this but the Spectator are spot on here:
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OK so since we can now definitely expect a 26.4% CON-LD swing in 2023 here is the certain outcome:
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Another Earth day, another year without the policy that cuts carbon emissions and poverty at the same time: a carbon dividend. At £100/tonne, this:
* Cuts poverty by 15%
* Cuts deep child poverty by a third
* Benefits two-thirds of people
* Is highly progressive
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@adamndsmith
Interesting, they actually took it down!
This tweet replaces an earlier tweet, to clarify the nature of government spending plans being announced today
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@Femi_Sorry
@timothy_stanley
This guy earlier: “people should be free, they just need to accept the consequences of their actions!”.
This guy, also: “I hope Boris doesn’t have to face the consequences of his actions”
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@Noahpinion
He’s about to put a million children into poverty by cutting the central means-testing benefit. Saying he’s not terrible is not a moderate position.
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@ThePolicyEngine
The distributional impact is regressive. The bottom decile sees on average £45 per year, compared to £2,700 for the top decile.
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@s8mb
Some wild quotes in here.
“One little slip up [where I planned a brutal murder]”
“It can happen to anyone [who plans to commit murder]”
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@EmmaKennedy
It's a fake sadly.
@elonmusk
is the real one,
@eIonmusk
is the suspended on (capital i vs l)
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@SJRichmond89
Why do we need that method? Private company makes silly high offer on a residence?
Resident willingly accepts? Win win. At worst a company loses money to the 'good guy'.
Resident wouldn't want to accept? Then they value it higher and the offer is low.
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You cannot U-turn on something you describe like this. It just destroys your credibility completely
The obscene and inhumane two child cap must go, as must the five week wait.
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@MaxGhenis
People spend on average an hour a day in a car. So over 95% of car spaces are vacant- we don’t need to build any more cars!
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@hamandcheese
The sunk cost is not the only cost. More people are going to die in the future under the Taliban because of this. There being bad arguments against withdrawing does not mean there are not good arguments against withdrawing.
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@TLDRNewsUK
well I for one am pleased to see research-informed policy designed by those with lived experience
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@swinshi
@nytopinion
Scott, have you accounted for the extra utility of leisure time with lower labour supply? I can’t find a reference to that in this article
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Disappointing to have to conclude:
* Bostrom is a racist
* Bostrom, either through arrogance or incompetence, wrote the offensive email in such a way that it explicitly made future apologies worthless
Him reaching the top of his field is a poor indictment of its state
Forwarding this on behalf of Nick Bostrom since he’s not active on Twitter. He wants to explain his views and publicly apologize for an old email that somebody might put out to damage him.
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I'm so glad that UK Sunday trading law protects our cherished small businesses (the small Tesco over the road) from the tyranny of large corporations (the very slightly larger Sainsbury's over the road)
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This is such a solidly good article, and I think it does reveal an uncomfortable truth. We on the left can do better.
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Degrowthers: I am happy to help participate in research trials.
I offer a secure and reliable location for you to dispose of unwanted funding so you can trial out new ways of building wellbeing with fewer resources.
In October, the EU-funded
@ERC_Research
gave ten million euros to
@jasonhickel
et al to study degrowth
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@EvantheReverend
Yeah cause the Crown estate was thankfully created through shrewd financial dealings that respected property rights
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🚨 So, raising the NI thresholds:
* Estimated to cost £8bn
* Cuts poverty by 2%
* Benefits 65% of the population
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@KaluluAnthony
@xriskology
This make very little sense. Poverty is a lack of income. Giving people money is not "fixing the symptoms of poverty". It's literally fixing actual poverty.
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@tomhfh
@BootstrapCook
Tom- appreciate the intent on factfulness but you should know this is actually incorrect: he did explicitly say “to get a good parcel they have to sign up for [the courses]”, see below
"There's not this massive use for food banks in this country. We've got generation after generation who cannot cook properly... they cannot budget"
Conservative Lee Anderson invites MPs to "come to a real food bank" in his constituency of Ashfield
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Good to see strong support for lowering the UK’s top marginal tax rates! I assume this is referring to people on Universal Credit
A thread on how cutting the top rate of tax will raise MORE revenue
International evidence shows clearly that cutting top marginal tax rates invariably increases revenue and just as importantly that raising them reduces revenues. Here are some international and UK examples: 1/16
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@cullm3n
@Molycuddle
I think we should let any refugee in and pay for their hotel and living costs before giving them citizenship, which is quite an uncommon view in the UK
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🚨Right, here are the
@ThePolicyEngine
numbers.
* Income tax: basic rate cut 1p, additional rate abolished.
* Stamp Duty zero-rate thresholds raised.
* NI and dividend rates cut.
£16.2bn net cost. 80% benefit. Poverty down 1%.
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@martinwolf_
Nice!
@ThePolicyEngine
estimates a 1% LVT+dividend is progressive and cuts poverty by 3pp
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We should cut red tape and lower bureaucratic regulations on productive entities!
(in welfare programs)
'People claiming Universal Credit who have and are looking after children aged one and two will have to meet work coaches more regularly to help them find a job'.
This mean less time, more means-testing and judging.
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I mean I’m sure some kids will like the free violins but for the love of God just give people cash
NEW: Every child aged 3-16 in
#Wales
is going to be offered a free musical instrument as part of the new 'National Music Service'.
It's hoped the plan will help low-income households and those with additional learning needs.
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@agw1437
@RichardBurgon
I did not know that Labour activists and pensioners are mutually exclusive groups. Elsie might be surprised to learn that
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@richardmarcj
He’s not saying to ban employees from spending Sunday morning at home, you’re saying to ban them from working in the shop. If they’d choose to spend time at home there’s no issue?
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Looks like the US might implode the global economy with a debt crisis so it's heartening to see that we're going to shoot ourselves in the leg in pre-emptive solidarity just in case
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@agw1437
@jessphillips
This is literally the problem?!! Last time I was in A&E there was a few hours of waiting around!
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@SkotiVi
@JustinLawGuy
@the_del_taco
@mrbergmann
@unusual_whales
@RyanRadia
Dude 2/3rds of your spending is exempt from sales taxes
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@AyoCaesar
“There’s no home insurance to pay”
So which is it then Telegraph, a risky asset or a fixed payment to another person who bears the risk? Pick one.
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@SJRichmond89
If the resident doesn't want to accept then they agree their house is worth more than $50m and they don't have a good argument for greedily withholding that massive value from society without paying tax on their wealth
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@ScottElliotG
@besttrousers
@dylanmatt
Doesn’t this fall into the same inaccuracy as “the US only paid $600”? Other countries such as the UK paid up to £2k/month in wages directly, which doesn’t show up here, but is arguably very relevant if you’re measuring wage replacement.
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@IGMansfield
IMO, these tweets are bizarrely worded so as to consider 18 year olds as the property of other adults, incapable of acting on their own judgement.
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@feedthedrummer
Just BTW where's the £2 from? I get £2.3bn / 65m being roughly £35 per person.
Obviously easily still worth it
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YIMBYism + UBI + Carbon taxation > YIMBYism
=> vote
@MaxGhenis
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Westminster think-tanks, all the cool kids (
@CPSThinkTank
this week) are using PolicyEngine to score everything from land value taxes to VAT reforms in seconds
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@CaymanFell
@quantian1
“Socialism is where the private housing market adjusts to market forces”
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For the average household, the gain is around £400. This increases significantly at higher incomes, into the thousands.
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@itvnews
@PaulBrandITV
Am I going insane? I already knew about this one. This was previously reported, right?
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@mr_fresher
@SJRichmond89
Lol the entire taxation system would collapse instantly if we used this principle consistently.
“Dear HMRC I did have a £70k salary but the job was so shit it felt like £0. I therefore enclose my tax return of £0”
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Great to enter "land value tax would fix this" mode. Thanks
@CentreThinkTank
for the collaboration!
Our co-founder
@nikhil_woodruff
has a new article in
@CentreThinkTank
about the land value dividend: a universal basic income funded by a tax on land.
Come for the Georgism, stay for the PolicyEngine charts!
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@mattyglesias
Police when Jordan Peterson calls them to his aid: “you’re saying I have to come? idk seems a bit problematic if you think about it “
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@Sam_Dumitriu
“Given the cost-of-living crisis, this charge should be paid by the supermarket rather than the consumer.”
Where can I learn this power of being able to dictate tax incidence by mere words alone?
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People are not "assets", and territories don't own them. This kind of thinking is how you get dangerous, regressive policies.
Government boast it is opening up visas to the world’s top graduates. But many originally come from third world countries. Why is Britain asset stripping poor countries like this?
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@cjayanetti
Here’s why I disagree:
Everybody arguing about effective altruism fights about longtermism or AI alignment or whatever, meanwhile GiveDirectly is quietly distributing $200M a year directly to low-income people across the world.
The success of the boring stuff is underappreciated but super important!
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A Conservative MP actually says “if you give us more seats, we’ll do a worse job”. What on earth
One Tory MP blames.... Keir Starmer
"If there was a strong opposition, Pincher wouldn't have ever been deputy chief whip," he says.
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@RichardJMurphy
Yeah, here's what we found:
@ThePolicyEngine
The distributional impact is regressive. The bottom decile sees on average £45 per year, compared to £2,700 for the top decile.
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Do “man of the people” guys often get into arguments with people in wheelchairs about whether their £80k salary is appropriate compensation
🗣️‘If you asked 100 people outside about net zero, 90 wouldn’t be bothered’ -
@LeeAndersonMP_
🎥
@itvnews
spent time with three MPs during recess to gauge what’s on the minds of voters…
Here’s a 🌶️ exchange from the piece with
@AnushkaAsthana
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*Government announces new spending policy*
impressive. now let's see the equal-cost cash transfer.
🇬🇧This morning's
@TheTimes
reports that Chancellor Hunt is considering how to spend £9bn of fiscal headroom.
Giving the money as an equal per-person cash transfer of £138 would:
* Cut the poverty rate 0.8pp
* Lower inequality 0.8%
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Such a shame that “benefits scroungers” is common parlance when “land value scroungers” represents a far greater theft.
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@jdportes
My "we're not like German national socialists" shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by the shirt
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@DailyMailUK
Why is it not working
This is the point in the dream where I figure out I can float
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@CashEzra11
@BaselessReality
@Lorna0663
@patrickmadrid
What does “going to another location” entail here
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@OneConradShaw
@ninaturner
'willing to abide by'? Why not just enact rent control at that point
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@LHSummers
As I understand it, windfall profits aren't the result of investment (by definition). So how could taxing windfall profits discourage investment, if they're unrelated?
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@MaxGhenis
@besttrousers
@MonetaristMaia
Why do we care so much more about the answer to "does the minimum wage reduce employment" than we do about the answer to "does the minimum wage reduce welfare"?
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Inequality measures all increase. The Gini index rises 1.2%, the top 1% share rises 2.2%.
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@PoliticsForAlI
@thetimes
@PoliticsForAlI
I think it’s disingenuous to use the figure for the top decile of households as if it’s an average.
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