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In contrast to the old market fundamentalism of Bush/Ryan Republicans focused on rolling back the welfare state to keep taxes low on the rich the new crop of Thiel-inspired populists wants to roll back the welfare state and keep taxes on the rich low. — PolitiTweet.org

Notable: Dems first hit on Blake Masters for the general focuses on his call to privatize Social Security and abort… https://t.co/pj8jXVVDA9

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To our credit, we don’t just “lecture” about democracy we defeat other countries in wars and then set them up with parliamentary systems. We just don’t take our own advice. — PolitiTweet.org

Taiwan, like Sweden, Germany, Uruguay, and New Zealand, uses a form of Proportional Representation so voters in ger… https://t.co/FzrUsvsJFE

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Impediments to domestic labor mobility — mostly housing costs, I imagine — are a big deal — PolitiTweet.org

Results: 1. Removing spatial frictions would increase GDP in Germany by 5%, with much larger effects for East Germ… https://t.co/iaXspwfeIX

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