Matthew Yglesias

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@MarcGoldwein I’m coming around to this — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @AurosHarman: @mattyglesias I should mention, as well, for anyone in the Bay Area: I'm having a campaign kick-off party at Atlas Pizza P… — PolitiTweet.org

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@Jellis581 @iamwhoisme @Noahpinion I’m just glad we’re getting to clarity on this — I have a specific take on the legal system that lawyers disagree with (that the whole thing is total bullshit) and as I result I very deliberately don’t pay attention to the details, it would be like trying to master astrology. — PolitiTweet.org

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If you look at which organizations and individuals made a difference in getting this done there is surprisingly little overlap with who climate philanthropists have been giving money to. https://t.co/GOxmzdaS0X — PolitiTweet.org

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Even erstwhile grumpy economist John Cochrane is awfully vague and evasive about what he’s saying here, but his proposal is to reduce inflation by cutting Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. I think the Biden/Manchin approach is better. https://t.co/Ke8xhcMMT8 https://t.co/SXKwYXJc1r — PolitiTweet.org

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Heritage guy complains that the problem with the IRA is that it includes too much borrowing. But it *reduces* borrowing. We taxed the rich to cut deficits under Clinton and Obama over GOP objections and should do so again. — PolitiTweet.org

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@jbview @drvolts Not obvious to me that it’s in any given administration’s interest to communicate the full scope of policy change to the mass public. You need to make sure the people who care find out what’s happening, but I think they mostly do. — PolitiTweet.org

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Do Republicans know that all of border security stuff and immigration enforcement is in the Department of Homeland Security? Do they really think eliminating the Coast Guard is going to fight inflation ? — PolitiTweet.org

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And to be clear, while I don’t think cutting anti-poverty programs is a good idea it is factually true that taking resources out of the hands of the neediest families would be disinflationary. The conservative view on this is, to me, immoral but it’s not irrational or anything. — PolitiTweet.org

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Now I suspect the “real” conservative view is that we should fight inflation by cutting Social Security or Medicaid and other programs for the poor. But the thing they’ve been saying is that we should make these permitting/leasing changes Manchin pushed for and won. — PolitiTweet.org

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Agree with this. Also important for discourse purposes to note that the permitting/leasing provisions essentially do the thing Republicans have been saying Biden should do to fight inflation. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @MarcGoldwein: The PWBM analysis is great, buy I suspect it understates the dis-inflationary impact: 1) CBO & JCT will find larger offse… — PolitiTweet.org

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Which programs do Republicans want to cut in order to reduce inflation? — PolitiTweet.org

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I think reducing kids' exposure to air pollution is more important than keeping taxes low on rich people. — PolitiTweet.org

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@Mike_Palicz Mike, the tweet you are dunking on is part of a multi-tweet thread that includes links to many studies making the case for the large benefits of reducing air pollution. I sincerely respect your desire to keep taxes on rich people low, but wish you would engage more honestly. — PolitiTweet.org

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The bill is disinflationary because it reduces the deficit — exactly why ATR opposes the bill. — PolitiTweet.org

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But in general air pollution seems to be very harmful in a way that is not specific to the particular type of heavy vehicle that is spewing the particulates — good roundup of research on this from @patrickc. https://t.co/91EMwcR2tJ — PolitiTweet.org

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I don't have a lot of knowledge of or interest in the specifics of electric garbage trucks, but I'm familiar with some of the research on electrifying school buses and the benefits appear to be quite large — would recommend @KelseyTuoc's column on this. https://t.co/MTzBXmGUaS — PolitiTweet.org

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Look, @Mike_Palicz works for Grover Norquist's anti-tax organization so it's no surprise that he thinks it's a bad bill. But let's have an above-board debate about the merits of Republicans' commitment to low taxes on the wealthy instead of this derp about garbage trucks. — PolitiTweet.org

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Right. The bill lists garbage trucks as an example of the kind of vehicle that is eligible for the money. So then this guy for some reason keeps trying to deceive his audience into believing the money is exclusively for garbage trucks. It's weird. — PolitiTweet.org

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Did you know that the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 contained some provisions that were not directly related to prescription drugs??!?!? — PolitiTweet.org

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If you're a Republican who doesn't like the contents of the Democrats' reconciliation bill, that's fine, offer some criticisms. But please stop embarrassing yourselves by pretending to be upset at the *name* of the bill. — PolitiTweet.org

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@Mike_Palicz I'm a little confused as to why you are so committed to misinforming your audience about what this provision actually does. Also given your job at a tax advocacy organization, my strong suspicion is your actual objections to this bill are about the revenue provisions right? — PolitiTweet.org

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@EmilyStewartM This suggests to me that you should be trying to find a city that's even dirtier than Philly. — PolitiTweet.org

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For whatever reason this guy keeps saying money designated for all kinds of heavy vehicles is just for garbage trucks, but the idea is to reduce oil consumption which seems pretty obvious. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @conorsen: The game is the game, but "Georgia is booming while also we're in a recession" is quite the messaging: https://t.co/KS1NPl0XHR — PolitiTweet.org

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Just contributed $250 to this race, trying to help a good YIMBY win in the Bay Area —> — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @EthanBWinter: this is the best message for democrats to take into a midterm where voters rate inflation and the economy in general as a… — PolitiTweet.org

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Oh I guess the gotcha is supposed to be that reducing the price of prescription drugs doesn’t reduce inflation except … it does. — PolitiTweet.org

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The gotcha here is that the bill has multiple provisions? — PolitiTweet.org