Veronique de Rugy @veroderugy Twitter profile

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Veronique de Rugy

@veroderugy

4 years

Walter Williams, who died Tuesday at 84, was one of America’s most courageous defenders of free markets, writes Donald J. Boudreaux via @WSJ

Opinion | Walter Williams, R.I.P.

His research was rigorous, and he was one of the few economists who know how to engage with the public.

www.wsj.com

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6 years

I am confused by this article. Didn't her staff send the FAQ document to NPR and other journalists? That's what NPR claimed at least. That's easy to prove so why would AOC claim otherwise. And if it was an unfinished document that NPR published, why did they send it?

The Hill

@thehill

6 years

Ocasio-Cortez forced to clarify Green New Deal details after rollout

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@veroderugy

5 years

Hum ... there is so much wrong in this tweet (like omitting the various new industries, and jobs, created upstream and downstream of Netflix) . You sound perfect for California, sir.

Ryan Blevins 🧢 🏎

@Blevins2020

5 years

In 2004 Blockbuster Video had roughly 85,000 employees. In 2019 Netflix only has about 5,500 enployees. That’s what the automation does. It replaces large numbers of jobs, to create just a few new jobs. #freedomdividend #ubi #netflix

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@veroderugy

6 years

Can we cut spending first?

Grover Norquist

@GroverNorquist

6 years

Ok. this SCOTUS thing was fun. Can we get back to cutting taxes, now?

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@veroderugy

3 years

Breaking news: Biden fulfills campaign promise of uniting Americans … against him and his administration.

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@veroderugy

2 years

It’s not just Trump Republicans need to dump, it’s also the protectionist big government agenda. Return to a growth and abundance agenda! “Since his unlikely victory in 2016, Donald Trump has consistently helped the GOP lose elections.”

Opinion | Trump Is the Republican Party’s Biggest Loser

He has now flopped in 2018, 2020, 2021 and 2022.

www.wsj.com

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@veroderugy

6 years

Will they ever learn? Rent control is well and and fine for those already in these homes but it hurts future renters who will face a tighter supply of home to rent.

Kamala Harris

@KamalaHarris

6 years

Earlier this week, @OregonGovBrown made it easier for families to stay in their neighborhoods by enacting statewide rent control. No one should ever have to choose between paying their rent each month or feeding their children.

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I actually feel terrible and sad for president Biden. I am also pissed at the thirst for power, his or others’, that have put him on this stage tonight. He should be retired and enjoying ice cream everyday.

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5 years

If Bloomberg is the nominee, it will be amusing since in November we will have a former Democrat (Trump) running as a Republican against a former Republican (Bloomberg) running as a Democrat. Politics is so weird. So strange that most people take it so seriously. @nickgillespie

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@veroderugy

8 years

Tell that to people whose insurance premiums and meds are now unaffordable thanks to the "Affordable" Care Act.

DailyCaller Politics

@TheDCPolitics

8 years

Chuck Schumer: Donald Trump Wants To ‘Make America Sick Again’

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@veroderugy

5 years

Send a list of spending cuts first, please.

Heather Long

@byHeatherLong

5 years

BREAKING from WaPo: Senior WH officials are considering a payroll tax cut to stimulate the economy. Congress would have to approve, but it's another sign of WH worrying about a recession or deeper downturn in 2020. Scoop by @damianpaletta #economy

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3 months

Literally the most studied and stupid policy. President Biden’s economists have got to know this is a tragic idea. Paging @MrRBourne if they don’t.

Jeff Stein

@JStein_WaPo

3 months

Scoop: Biden WILL announce plan to cap rents at 5% nationwide, sources say Would strip tax benefit from corporate landlords who dont comply Plan, which likely requires D control of Congress, comes as Biden emphasizes populist econ ideas after debate W/ @rachsieg

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Because you don’t like this guy, you ruined graduation for thousands of families who have nothing to do with anything you are complaining about. Terrible way to make people sympathize with your cause.

Climate Defiance

@ClimateDefiance

4 months

BREAKING: today we halted graduation at Brown, blocking the trustees from reaching the ceremony. They just appointed infamous murderer Brian Moynihan as chancellor. An enemy to humanity, Moynihan has shoveled $333,000,000,000 to fossil fuels in his role as Bank of America CEO.🧵

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8 years

I wonder how donors who supported Bush, then Rubio and finally Cruz feel tonight about their investment in politics.

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@veroderugy

4 years

Does anyone know why Justice Ginsburg didn’t retire during President Obama’s second term? She would have been at least 80, which is already quite old and would have avoided all this drama. What am I missing?

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@veroderugy

2 years

How about @justinamash for Speaker of the House?

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@veroderugy

5 years

You are talking as if 1) you had nothing to do with the decision to accumulate all that debt and as if 2) you got nothing in exchange for that debt. I too would like to live my life free of the burden of having to pay for stuff I buy willingly but that’s not how it works.

Rep. Ilhan Omar

@Ilhan

5 years

I am one of the 45 million people with student debt—45 million people who are held back from pursuing their dreams because of the student debt crisis. It’s why I’m proud to stand with @SenSanders and @RepJayapal to pass #CollegeforAll and #CancelStudentDebt !

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7 years

I am French, raised in Normandy. I feel immense gratitude and admiration for the young men who landed there on DDay. Unprecedented courage.

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@veroderugy

7 years

Hey @trish_regan Do you know that there are 140,000 workers in the steel industry but 5.4 million workers in steel-consuming industries? Now thanks to the tariffs that you praise, you have made the cost of the stuff they produce more expensive and jeopardize some of their jobs.

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@veroderugy

5 years

Mike Pence: "The economy is roaring. This is exactly the time not only to not raise interest rates, but we ought to consider cutting them." That makes no sense, literally none.

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@veroderugy

8 years

There was no struggle @DrJillStein except for those he murdered, the families he broke up and starved. Shame on you for praising a dictator.

Dr. Jill Stein🌻

@DrJillStein

8 years

Fidel Castro was a symbol of the struggle for justice in the shadow of empire. Presente!

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1 year

This is an unserious response. No one denies that you can produce a company that is viable with hundreds of billions of subsidies and special treatments for decades, especially in a market with few competitors and where politics plays such a large role. The question is “it works

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@veroderugy

1 year

Meet the arbiter of truth; the one who knows what real things are and what fake things are and the one who will set fair wages.

American Compass

@AmerCompass

1 year

. @JDVance1 on the problem of financialization: We need to make working on real things pay more than it pays now, and we need to make working on fake things pay less than it pays now.

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@veroderugy

5 months

lol: “free market was created”.

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@WesleyCoop

5 months

The conservative movement must stop defending free markets (though it is a good) and start defending the American family for which the free market was created to serve.

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5 years

Opinion | The Right Minimum Wage: $0.00 - The New York Times

Opinion | The Right Minimum Wage: $0.00 (Published 1987)

www.nytimes.com

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@veroderugy

8 years

Face It: A Vote for Hillary Clinton Is a Vote for War via @thedailybeast

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@veroderugy

5 years

She goes on to promise that this won’t happen if she becomes president since there won’t be any growth to start with.

POLITICO

@politico

5 years

Sen. Elizabeth Warren is warning that "the odds of another economic downturn are high — and growing”

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@veroderugy

7 years

Check out my daughter’s new t-shirt @scottlincicome @christinemcdan @dikenson @DanielGriswold @fredsgarden

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@veroderugy

2 months

Tell me president Trump hasn’t read Vance’s book, without telling me that he hasn’t read the book.

Acyn

@Acyn

2 months

Trump: He wrote a book which was a classic. It was all about the working men and women and how they aren’t treated fairly. I understood that better than anyone else.

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@veroderugy

9 years

I am genuinely confused by all the talks about Rubio winning, rising or dominating. Didn't he get third place in Iowa?

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@veroderugy

4 years

“As a person, Walter Williams was unique. I have heard of no one else being described as being "like Walter Williams." Walter E. Williams 1936-2020

Walter E. Williams 1936-2020

townhall.com

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@veroderugy

2 years

Stanford’s response to complaints about their war in fun: “The party-planning process will be streamlined and more administrators will be hired to help facilitate student social life.” How did kids manage to have fun without administrators before?!

The Wall Street Journal

@WSJ

2 years

Stanford University is waging a “war on fun,” students say. A tree mascot is suspended after bashing the school as boring.

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6 years

Hum ... that’s not how they explained it to me when I was studying to become a American.

Mark Finkelstein

@markfinkelstein

6 years

Dem idea of justice: on MTP Daily, Sen. Chris Coons just said that Judge Kavanaugh "bears the burden of disproving these allegations." #tcot #BrettKavanaugh #ChristineFord #MTPDaily #DeborahRamirez

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@veroderugy

4 years

When will people revolt against abuses of power like this one?

Guy Benson

@guypbenson

4 years

NYC schools are closed. NYC Dem political fundraisers are open.

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2 months

Her vision is one of shortages and higher prices. President Obama, you need a refresher in basic economics.

Barack Obama

@BarackObama

2 months

From capping the cost of prescription drugs for all to providing first-time homebuyers with financial support to restoring the child tax credit for families, @KamalaHarris just laid out some ways she'll help lower costs for the American people. She has the vision, the

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Losers of tonight: The American people.

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Let me guess. These economists who tell him that tariffs don’t increase prices are economists like “chief economist” Oren Cass.

Acyn

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Welker: Do you acknowledge that consumers will ultimately pay more if there are more tariffs. Do you acknowledge that? Vance: No, I don’t. Economists disagree about the effects of tariffs..

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7 years

Interesting read. No surprise, the election wasn’t rigged but DNC preferred Clinton & gave her unusual powers.

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@veroderugy

6 years

@DanCrenshawTX If we are catching them already, do we really need a wall? Also, $5.7 billion to stop 400,000, is a lot of money per illegal crossing. (Or failed illegal crossing)

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@veroderugy

8 years

FBI: Clinton wasn't sophisticated enough 2 understand the marking for secret classification. America, rest in peace; you'll be in good hand.

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@veroderugy

5 years

Apart from putting the bike in the family room (where you can’t use it to hang clothes, which it would doing at my house if I had space and money for it) I don’t see how this ad is controversial.

The Hill

@thehill

5 years

Peloton stock plunges 15 percent following controversial ad

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@veroderugy

5 years

Why do we need an epidemics like this one to lift idiotic regulations?

Chris Sununu

@GovChrisSununu

5 years

Appreciate the sacrifice many are making throughout these #COVID19 developments. We are working on a plan to allow for closed container beer and wine alongside takeout food from your favorite New Hampshire restaurants. More to come tomorrow.

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@veroderugy

5 years

Under the Warren administration I will be become an alcoholic.

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@veroderugy

5 years

When I told my daughter that she could get a Facebook account, she was like “why would I do that? None of my friends are on Facebook. It’s for old people”. So give it a few years and watch Facebook melt away.

Katherine Mangu-Ward

@kmanguward

5 years

This snazzy little infographic is basically my answer to everyone who wants to regulate social media

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5 years

RIP, David Koch. Contrary to what some may say, he leaves behind a legacy of liberty and a life long commitment to issues such as criminal justice reform, the end of cronyism and government restrictions in order to make our lives, especially those of low income Americans, better.

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1 year

“Under Mr. Trump’s protectionist policy, total manufacturing output was 2% lower by the start of the pandemic than it was when he raised tariffs.” Trump’s Trade War Was a Loser

Opinion | Trump’s Trade War Was a Loser

Tariffs destroyed jobs in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin and made all Americans worse off.

www.wsj.com

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@veroderugy

8 years

The Left is blaming everyone from racism, sexism, FBI, third party, @ggreenwald and media. No mention of Clinton, Obama, or bad policies.

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@veroderugy

7 years

Commerce Secretary is incredible. He keeps repeating that the tariffs will only increase the price of beer cans by 1 cent as to dismiss the cost of tariffs.But that's stupid. The real measure is the $350 million cumulative cost for those making those can beers. That's a big deal.

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@veroderugy

8 years

Listen to what Michael is asking and think about it for a moment.

Michael F. Cannon 🇮🇪🇺🇸

@mfcannon

9 years

Think of your least favorite presidential candidate. Now imagine s/he wins. Doesn’t limiting government power seem like a good idea?

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Corporate profits are often taxed at higher rates than labor (corporate tax and cap gains/dividends). Also, the person who writes the check to the IRS isn't always the one who shoulders the tax. As it turns out, a lot of the corporate tax's burden falls on workers in the form of

Oren Cass

@oren_cass

3 months

👀 At @NatConTalk conference, @HawleyMO puts corp tax cuts at top of list of economic policy mistakes from the past generation of Republicans, asks, “Why should labor ever be taxed more than capital? It should not be.” Calls for conservatives to embrace private-sector unions.

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Love it! The life I want to live is one where social security and Medicare are reformed before they bankrupt us, the government stops handing out subsidies, tax credits and loan guarantees to special interests, and life is cheaper thanks to deregulation of the economy. Thank you.

Tim Walz

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No matter who you are, @KamalaHarris is gonna stand up and fight for your freedom to live the life you want to lead.

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4 years

One thing is sure: this election shows how unpopular Hillary Clinton was.

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1 year

Economic ignorance in action.

The_Real_Fly

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These pathetic god damned morons

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4 years

This is a good symbol for these guys: the guillotine was vilified for the horrible role it played during the reign of terror that followed French Revolution. Those who use the guillotine never end up looking good and sympathetic but brutal and hateful.

Washington Examiner

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Protesters assembled outside of @JeffBezos 's DC home have constructed a guillotine.

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7 years

I am waiting for the Bitcoin part of the speech.

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@veroderugy

3 years

The leadership not wanting to wait for a score may tell us everything we need about what's in this bill.

Jake Sherman

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3 years

WHERE WE ARE— moderates demanding a CBO score are very dug in right now. They’re huddled in pelosis office, @BrianDeeseNEC & Louisa Terrell have been in and out. House vote has been open for more than an hour Mods made a simple demand: they wanted a score. They don’t have one

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“It’s up to the rest of us to expose the New Right for what it truly is: ugly, pessimistic, base, weak toward America’s enemies, and, like its progressive twin, corrosive of the American tradition of liberty.”

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1 year

Excellent piece. The Left of the Right - Matthew Continetti, Commentary Magazine

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5 years

Who needs Democrats to grow the scope and size of government when you have Republicans like these ones? #BigGovtLovers

Martha McSally

@MarthaMcSally

5 years

Paid family leave brought a great group of senators & @IvankaTrump together at the @WhiteHouse ’s Child Care and Paid Family Leave Summit today. We talked about how any paid family leave plan must give working families the flexibility they need.

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7 years

Important to listen to if you want to separate the myth from the truth on the issue.

Daily Caller

@DailyCaller

7 years

MSNBC Anchor Loses Net Neutrality Debate With Former FCC Chairman [VIDEO]

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6 years

Pretty cool. I just did a @CNBC interview from a truck in front of my house. That was a first, for sure.

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6 years

I am proud to be what this guy calls a “globalist”. And yes, I favor immigration of low and high skilled immigrants and I believe in free trade, unilateral free trade actually. And I do love @StephenMoore , one of the nicest guys, even when we don’t agree 100 percent on a topic.

Robin Cotten

@RobinCotten2

6 years

@StephenMoore 1/ It's a shame you had an #awful interviewer in @veroderugy on @BookTV to cover your great book, 'Trumponomics'. We tuned in to hear you, not some #globalist economist blabber on and on and not be quiet. #economics

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And just like that you remember that life is awesome.

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5 years

What a surprise.

Jennifer Hillman

@J_A_Hillman

5 years

More econ studies showing 1) US consumers paying almost all of Trump's tariffs 2) tariffs did not, as promised, protect steel jobs, with US Steel laying off 1,545 workers.

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How come revelations like these do not seem to affect the trust that most people have in government officials and the media that covers for them? Have people become so partisan that they tolerate being misled?

Richard H. Ebright

@R_H_Ebright

3 years

NIH corrects untruthful assertions by NIH Director Collins and NIAID Director Fauci that NIH had not funded gain-of-function research in Wuhan. NIH states that EcoHealth Alliance violated Terms and Conditions of NIH grant AI110964.

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6 years

“Market Facilitation Payments” = taxpayers paying once again for the Trump failed trade war.

Donald J. Trump

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6 years

Today I am making good on my promise to defend our Farmers & Ranchers from unjustified trade retaliation by foreign nations. I have authorized Secretary Perdue to implement the 2nd round of Market Facilitation Payments. Our economy is stronger than ever–we stand with our Farmers!

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Hey America, thanks to @realDonaldTrump 's import taxes on steel and aluminum, we are going to be losing many jobs in steel and aluminum-consuming industries. Make America Grow Slow Again!

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Good economics where I wasn’t expecting much of it makes me very happy.

Elizabeth Warren

@ewarren

9 months

40 years ago, a typical single-family home in Greater Boston sold for $79.4k—about 4.5X a Boston Public School teacher’s salary. Today, that home would go for nearly 11X what that teacher makes now. We must bring down costs, which means we need more supply—plain-old Econ 101.

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8 years

I have just noticed that I never see cars with Trump or Clinton bumper stickers. Still plenty of Obama 08 and 12 and even Romney 12.

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@veroderugy

2 years

Americans are a remarkably generous people.

Scott Lincicome

@scottlincicome

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"$300,000 raised for Burger King employee who never missed work in 27 years and got mediocre gift"

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5 years

Captions, please

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Community note > Stephen Miller’s economics

Stephen Miller

@StephenM

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Tariffs are taxes on FOREIGN producers, not American. Tariffs are what built America. Ripping down tariffs are how globalist elites gutted manufacturing towns in South Carolina. And restoring tariffs are how we bring those jobs back.

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Suggestion: How about everyone calms down, and goes back to work on actual policy issues. Remember those? There is a lot to do: trade, immigration, spending, improper payments, healthcare, and more.

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5 months

Tell me that Oren doesn’t understand economics without telling that Oren doesn’t understand economics.

Oren Cass

@oren_cass

5 months

Fun game to play with economists... You: "Hey, if we raised some tax to close our massive budget deficit, would that be inflationary?" Economic Expert(tm): [haughtily] "Of course not." You: "OK, how about if that tax is a tariff?" EE: [haughtily] [walks away]

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6 months

Eric is so annoying with his facts.

Eric Boehm

@EricBoehm87

6 months

Blaming China's entry into the WTO for the decline of American manufacturing jobs is ahistorical nonsense -- unless the Chinese somehow developed time-travel technology?

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“G.K. Chesterton's critical lesson that "Right is right, even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong, even if everybody is wrong about it."” America's COVID Response Was Based on Lies | Opinion

America's COVID Response Was Based on Lies

We have seen an Orwellian attempt to rewrite history and to blame the failure of widespread lockdowns on the lockdowns' critics.

www.newsweek.com

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3 years

It is an honor to have been selected to serve as the George Gibbs Chair in Political Economy. George was an impressive entrepreneur and a very principled man.

Mercatus Center

@mercatus

3 years

The Mercatus Center at GMU is pleased to announce the creation of the George Gibbs Chair in Political Economy, in memory of George Williams Gibbs, III. Senior Research Fellow Veronique de Rugy will be the inaugural chair holder, effective immediately.

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8 years

If anyone told me that voting for this bill was not debatable when I was undecided, i would have decided to vote no on the spot.

The Hill

@thehill

8 years

Bannon told conservatives "this is not a debate," you have to back ObamaCare replacement: report

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7 years

Reading twitter today, one thing is clear: Both sides think that the Comey hearing proves that they were correct all along.

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@veroderugy

5 years

I am going in.

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@veroderugy

8 years

Criminal justice reform is great. How about ending the war on drugs?

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4 years

Amazon really has anything anyone could want.

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4 years

Trump’s protectionism is out, Biden’s protectionism is in.

The Hill

@thehill

4 years

Biden's trade chief says US won't be lifting tariffs on China

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@veroderugy

1 year

More evidence that most government interventions in the economy aren’t about making life better for Americans. Certainly this one intervention isn’t.

Gary Winslett 🌐🇺🇸

@GaryWinslett

1 year

With the FTC likely launching a lawsuit tomorrow aimed at breaking up Amazon Prime it's worth noting that A) 64% of voters are Prime members, B) 91% are satisfied C) voters wants govt to focus on other tech policy priorities, and D) ind. voters oppose a breakup by > 5-1 margin.

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@veroderugy

3 years

⁦subscribe to ⁦ @reason ,⁩ your cat will love it too.

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@veroderugy

4 years

Walter Williams, R.I.P.

Walter Williams, R.I.P. | National Review

The great economist and freedom fighter Walter Williams has died.

www.nationalreview.com

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@veroderugy

2 years

Doubling down on previous acts of treason. Fresh of the press: It's Time to Repeal the Jones Act, with a special message of gratitude for the work of @CatoInstitute 's scholars like @cpgrabow and @scottlincicome

It’s Time To Repeal the Jones Act

The statute’s misguided attempts to bolster the U.S. shipping industry ultimately harm American consumers

www.discoursemagazine.com

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@veroderugy

8 years

During this first legislative fight, the president is 100% 1) on the side of the establishment and 2) a bad bill that won't reduce premiums.

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@veroderugy

4 years

Warning: Decreasing marginal returns apply to Cheetos eating too. That first Cheetos is amazing, the last one after consuming a very large bag of them, not so great.

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5 years

The republicans would be more credible about liberty if they didn’t spend like drunken sailors when in office.

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@veroderugy

3 years

The awfulness of the French government never disappoints: The Entangling, Ever-Extending Labyrinth of French Lockdowns

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@veroderugy

5 years

Look the NYT wrote a story praising Fox News for being so balanced.

The New York Times

@nytimes

5 years

As Fox News’s anchors covered President Trump and the impeachment inquiry this week, they found themselves clashing — with their own colleagues, on-air in full public view

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@veroderugy

3 years

This lady isn’t thinking straight: ending a mask mandate means that the majority of parents who want their kids’ face covered can send them to school with a mask!They can’t force parents who understand the damage it can imposed on their children relative to the benefit to comply

Barbara Favola

@BarbaraFavola

3 years

@NickWTOP @WTOP Governor Youngkin talks about parental involvement in schools. The overwhelmingly majority of Arlington parents want masks worn in schools. Does parental involvement only matter if the Governor agrees?

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@veroderugy

8 months

Let me guess? The right people to do the planning and steering are Mr. Cass and his friends.

(Stephanie) Slade

@sladesr

8 months

This from @oren_cass , which he says is a paraphrase of @hamandcheese , seems like a real saying-the-quiet-part-out-loud moment.

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9 years

U.S. Bombs Somehow Keep Falling in the Places Where Obama “Ended Two Wars” http://t.co/BEFDp8pb1w by @ggreenwald

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Welcome @jmhorp Mercatus Welcomes Jeremy Horpedahl as a Visiting Scholar | Mercatus Center

Mercatus Welcomes Jeremy Horpedahl as a Visiting Scholar

Arlington, Va. — The Mercatus Center at George Mason University is pleased to announce

www.mercatus.org

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Veronique de Rugy

@veroderugy

6 years

This has nothing to do with gender. It has everything to do with the large number of mistakes you make about the system and the budget when you tweet. Read/fact check your tweets, learn some more and be more careful and it should go away.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

@AOC

6 years

Double standards are Paul Ryan being elected at 28 and immediately being given the benefit of his ill-considered policies considered genius; and me winning a primary at 28 to immediately be treated with suspicion & scrutinized, down to my clothing, of being a fraud.

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8 years

I would not want to be Mike Pence and have to defend Trump's comments or policies. At least Kaine believes the crap that Clinton believes.

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@veroderugy

6 years

Creative captions are welcomed.

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3 years

So incredibly sad to hear the news of the passing of @sghorwitz . The good ones do die young:-(

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