Paul Krugman

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To get this result, they departed somewhat from standard practice, in ways that are both defensible and somewhat arguable. First, they decided to focus only on taxes, not the tax-and-transfer system we actually have 4/ — PolitiTweet.org

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The controversy involves their eye-popping claim that the current tax system isn't progressive at all — that's it's actually sort of flat except at the top, where it's regressive. 3/ https://t.co/nEE3oy49Vp — PolitiTweet.org

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The important thing to say is that SZ's core result — that we've seen a drastic and unnecessary reduction in the progressively of the tax system — is rock-solid. In particular, taxes on capita income are way down, while taxes on labor income are up 2/ — PolitiTweet.org

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We're going to have having an event at the CUNY Graduate with Saez and Zucman about their fantastic new book, and I'm trying to get my own thinking clear, especially about some of the technical controversies. So here's a brief thread 1/ https://t.co/SVgLywyw1H — PolitiTweet.org

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I'm on a lot of right-wing mailing lists, somehow, and have avoided labeling them as spam bc I want to see what's happening — mainly, the complete abandonment of all their professed principles. Here's something called Americans for Limited Government endorsing protectionism https://t.co/GMWFnuf6fy — PolitiTweet.org

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That trade deal Trumpkins announced last week? China says, not so fast. They obviously think they have Trump on the run https://t.co/m1wwXcsOHv — PolitiTweet.org

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Really not a central issue here, but since people are talking about the candidates' ages, saying "3 in their 70s" is pretty misleading. On average, a 70-year-old woman can expect to live another 16 years; a 77-year-old man only 10. https://t.co/UFv8nGwg5c — PolitiTweet.org

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If religious bigotry turns out to be a winning strategy, God help us https://t.co/UDDRpEdR3a — PolitiTweet.org

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Is it just me, or is this article weirdly unspecific about exactly which rural values Democrats are offending? The only example I could find was criticizing racist jokes https://t.co/a4PtyKhExK — PolitiTweet.org

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When the Attorney General starts talking like a religious zealot https://t.co/UDDRpEdR3a — PolitiTweet.org

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Did he really follow his gut? Or did he follow his emoluments? Or did he get instructions from his friend Vladimir? We really have no idea what just happened, except that American interests were betrayed https://t.co/5yYUi9zXaW — PolitiTweet.org

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I sometimes get letters from anti-immigrant types who claim that I just don't get it. One type says "How would you feel if New York was full of immigrants?" The other says, "How would you feel if immigrants were competing for professor jobs?" (2 of the 3 Nobelists foreign-born) — PolitiTweet.org

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Hmm. We're running low on eggs and a few other items. Do I need a visa to enter the local supermarket? https://t.co/asbyLQAUVS — PolitiTweet.org

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Late to this, but this is a very heartening prize — evidence-based economics with a real social purpose. https://t.co/AvdbJXcZzX — PolitiTweet.org

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Sure enough, the much-hyped China trade deal turns out to be vaporware https://t.co/MV5m664Bh6 — PolitiTweet.org

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The betrayal of the Kurds isn't the worst thing Trump has done; history will damn him most for his betrayal of the planet over climate change. But it may be the most lurid https://t.co/GfGgU74hZK — PolitiTweet.org

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True across U.S. states too — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @KennedyCSIS: Why Beijing should be seen as clear victor in negotiations: they delayed new tariffs w/o making any significant concession… — PolitiTweet.org

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The thing is, all the polling data I see shows that we're becoming a more tolerant country. Can religious bigotry still be a winning strategy? If so, God help us all 9/ — PolitiTweet.org

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Anyway, we may need to update Samuel Johnson. Historically, patriotism may have been the last refuge of scoundrels; but for Trump, with his fondness for foreign dictators, that route is problematic. So now religion is the last refuge. 8/ — PolitiTweet.org

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Also, Trump and company are going all in on playing to the base — which consists not so much of working-class whites as of *evangelical* working-class whites 7/ https://t.co/0mYDI3aIyU https://t.co/yJowKQ9v3o — PolitiTweet.org

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I think we can take it as a given that nothing Barr says is sincere; after all, he works for the least godly man ever to occupy the White House. But there is a strategy here. Partly it's about deflecting gun control: guns don't kill people, Darwin kills people 6/ — PolitiTweet.org

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And has vastly higher homicide rates 5/ https://t.co/AwKBhsUKzW https://t.co/toSyUu8O7e — PolitiTweet.org

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Barr also blames secularists for crime and drug deaths, which is nuts. Secularism has definitely risen since the 1990s; meanwhile, violent crime has fallen dramatically. Internationally, the US is much more religious than other advanced countries 4/ https://t.co/aecwePgaB0 — PolitiTweet.org

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And he's not just saying secularists are bad, he's accusing them of a sinister conspiracy against American values. That's real witch hint/pogrom type speech 3/ — PolitiTweet.org

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Bear in mind that around 1 in 5 Americans now profess no religious affiliation roughly the same as the number of Catholics. What would we say if the Attorney General gave a speech demonizing America's Catholics? 2/ https://t.co/JKnSbRIp6q — PolitiTweet.org

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It seems to me that people aren't paying enough attention to William Barr's attack on "secularism", which is clearly part of a Trump administration strategy that should outrage and scare us 1/ https://t.co/GrCY3mlxAD — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @ryangrim: Find me the anti-gay-marriage voter who was inches from supporting @ewarren but now they’re gone https://t.co/ICuNU23FBq — PolitiTweet.org

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And the reality is that today's refugee groups are assimilating with — and enriching — America just like Rudy Giuliani's ancestors, or mine 3/ https://t.co/6K5fpC7cQz — PolitiTweet.org

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Trumpian slurs against refugee communities are obviously exactly the same as what Italians (and Jews, and ...) faced a century ago. And don't say that the color of peoples' skins makes a difference: whiteness is a social construct 2/ https://t.co/sgBPfszq5m — PolitiTweet.org