Correction: Minimum wage increases are also "pre-distribution." I'd argue immigration control might be easier for Dems (the other side already supports), is more far-reaching (employers beat bushes to hire marginalized) and more market-friendly. But they're both pre-distribution.
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) April 26, 2019
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"Golden-hued steel frame"–seems a little Trumpy for you. https://t.co/4mtQUvPpOn
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) April 26, 2019
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Trump has put up 39 miles of wall on 2,000-mile border despite claims of more https://t.co/LlRHakVF9W At this rate the Wollman Rink would almost be completed by now.
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) April 26, 2019
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The one relatively easy "pre-distribution" policy that would help at the bottom–controlling unskilled immigration to keep the labor market tight–is something Democrats don't want to do. https://t.co/6HuKjQT8r3
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) April 26, 2019
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Dems make another try at "specific plans" to stop broadly rising income equality at acceptable economic and social cost https://t.co/RiX1mnQJfm I doubt those plans exist https://t.co/By1MpO0Rk2
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) April 26, 2019
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.@DarrenJBeattie responds to attempts to toxify him because he gave an anodyne speech at a 2016 conference that Richard Spencer had once attended–years earlier. That seems a stretch, even for SPLC. https://t.co/KF9cJOHAAO
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) April 26, 2019
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BIDEN for PRESIDENT: IT WAS ALL A DREAMhttps://t.co/wUnWeYvfVv https://t.co/Qf04GcMI5W
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) April 26, 2019
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Seems like it has been Melania's birthday for several months… https://t.co/LULkJu6UDj
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) April 26, 2019
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What do you want to bet it's not just farm workers who'll be brought in under the plan? https://t.co/xjhZa0Sge4
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) April 26, 2019
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BFD if true. They're not even claiming asylum anymore. They're just overwhelming the system. https://t.co/Z4t0QvWeq8
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) April 25, 2019
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"I'm your biggest defender" https://t.co/z7N2ta4lxy
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) April 25, 2019
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CNN story not very informative. McClatchy providing much more useful reporting on this beat https://t.co/2CYTaoQDQF https://t.co/aEkkicuLLG
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) April 25, 2019
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Biden is the Restoration candidate, it looks like. https://t.co/lSLPXw2u2S
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) April 25, 2019
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Will Jared Kushner's immigration plan still be "neutral" on total numbers if you count all his new guestworkers? https://t.co/o2jz3WBUdk
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) April 25, 2019
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TIGHT LABOR MKT (cont.): Bosses no longer in the saddle. “A strike at single-unit Tinker Street restaurant…forced out one of its owners after workers alleged that a waitress was wrongly fired.” More equal social relations at granular level.
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) April 25, 2019
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TIGHT LABOR MARKET DOING ITS JOB: "The going rate for dishwashers is $13 an hour in Indianapolis, [Patrick] Tamm said. That’s above the national $11-per-hour average" https://t.co/Kb2pQvYlel Will Jared's guestworkers screw it all up?
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) April 25, 2019
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On the other hand, Friedman endorses the wall, and asylum reform. He doesn't call for amnesty. And he implies "ability to assimilate" sets a limit on immigration numbers. Shouldn't quibble. https://t.co/V7Ve5XQuzv
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) April 24, 2019
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Yikes. This is AOC's chief of staff. ("Unjust laws" against murder?) https://t.co/tcpQmd4RFw
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) April 24, 2019
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Shorter Friedman: We need the wall. Just to calm the yahoos. ("Without a high wall, too many Americans will lack confidence that we can control our borders, and they therefore will oppose the steady immigration we need.") https://t.co/IJARkZusek
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) April 24, 2019
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.@TomFriedman suggests that a) the crush of asylum seekers allows b) more old-style non-asylum illegal immigrants to sneak in while agents are occupied. If so, b) wouldn't be counted in the stats (which count only those caught). https://t.co/HL4im2egnN
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) April 24, 2019
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Something the @thehill's story leaves out: Kushner (https://t.co/guaRuThrOO) says there's a "guestworker piece" in his immigration plan. https://t.co/SeiifBg3hK
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) April 24, 2019
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Jared on criminal justice reform: "This was not a D’s versus R’s, this was really us versus them.” Who's the them?
(Crime victims? Sheriffs? Senators Cotton Enzi, Kennedy, Murkowski, Risch, Rounds, Rubio, Sullivan, Barrasso?)
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) April 23, 2019
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Lobbyist cites "his willingness to hear from all stakeholders, including even those who operate on K Street." https://t.co/z1daOycWM6
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) April 23, 2019
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Lobbyist lauds "his willingness to hear from all stakeholders, including even those who operate on K Street." https://t.co/z1daOycWM6
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) April 23, 2019
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But Phish … https://t.co/es9da9g13d
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey) April 22, 2019
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