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Fri Feb 05 16:59:05 +0000 2021

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

On February 4, 2021 Senator Mitt Romney (R-Utah) released a plan that would dramatically reduce child poverty in the United States. Later that day, AEI's Director of Poverty Studies blasted the plan as reducing labor supply too much to be worth it. So how big is the reduction? — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Feb. 5, 2021 Hibernated

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To be clear, what I am saying here online is that Winship's critique of me is entirely correct. I have been rude to him and he owes me nothing. Separately, I think *someone* should get the Director of Policy Studies at a leading conservative think tank to tell us the answer. — PolitiTweet.org

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Imagine thinking you're so entitled that you can be remorsefully uncivil and expect there not to be consequences, o… https://t.co/AbMWnKBnuw

Posted Feb. 5, 2021 Hibernated

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Obviously Winship is under no obligation to share his estimate with me (I'm a jerk). But surely he'll share his estimate with *other* journalists covering this policy debate? Since the reduced labor supply is the core of the case against, there must be one right? — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Feb. 5, 2021 Hibernated

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