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Last Checked Sept. 28, 2022

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Mon Aug 08 15:58:51 +0000 2022

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

@davidmanheim @moskov I think this hesitancy stems from people wrongly making emissions the target variable rather than human welfare. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Aug. 8, 2022 Hibernated

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Maybe you couldn’t have gotten anything better by caving sooner, but I think there’s a strong prima facile case that backing out of the terms of that memo wasted time, sapped goodwill, and generally backfired. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Aug. 8, 2022 Hibernated

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@MattZeitlin I think the tax problem is more profound than that — absent a steep recession, if you want to substantially increase low-income peoples consumption or consumption of child care services or whatever you basically *have to* use a fairly broad tax. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Aug. 8, 2022 Deleted after 40 seconds Hibernated

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