A few hundred dollars in no-work-required Refundable Tax Credits a month is a pretty ineffective way to encourge births. But it’s a highly effective way to create a non-working, non-marrying culture (what we used to call an underclass).
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 28, 2024
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July 28, 2024 at 03:59PM
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But he built 8 car chargers. https://t.co/3PRr0KF9ig
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 28, 2024
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July 28, 2024 at 03:53PM
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Because, for Democrats, the Biden CTC was never really about encouraging people to have children, or helping them with the extra burdens of parenting. It was always a stalking horse for a no-work-required UBI. https://t.co/qe8qPrAqPg
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 28, 2024
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July 28, 2024 at 03:45PM
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This leaves a bad taste https://t.co/X0vaAoewRU
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Jul 28, 2024
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July 28, 2024 at 10:41AM
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This is the sort of explanation that rings true. I don’t know if it is, though. https://t.co/2XUg2umloF
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 27, 2024
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July 27, 2024 at 04:18PM
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I concede the CHIPS Act–funding a national industrial policy–might be a big deal if it is successful and replicated. Both parties are headed in that direction, no?
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 27, 2024
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July 27, 2024 at 12:47PM
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Wait. Biden was a “transformative” president because of [running down the list] an expensive “refundable tax credit” that wasn’t very popular and was allowed to expire after a year … Infrastructure spending (admittedly “not particularly novel”)… https://t.co/D5NmoAvhnG
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 27, 2024
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July 27, 2024 at 12:39PM
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So the emerging case for Kamala:
1. She wasn’t actually in charge of anything.
2. She doesn’t actually believe what she says.
It’s worked before!— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 27, 2024
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July 27, 2024 at 12:26PM
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The obvious defense–that she doesn’t really have beliefs but is an empty vessel who says what she thinks she has to say to thrive in Dem politics–might be surprisingly effective. https://t.co/qa008CQNOi
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 27, 2024
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July 27, 2024 at 12:21PM
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On his “2WAY” show @MarkHalperin says PA Gov. Shapiro (unlike HIllary, Biden & Harris) “believes…that demonizing people who support President Trump [is] not an effective political strategy and it’s not the way to bring the country … together.”
This concludes today’s… https://t.co/UuUmdGxeRd
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 27, 2024
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July 27, 2024 at 01:57AM
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Vance & Coulter should have a friendly debate on this topic. 1) Would be fun; 2) Would lower the emotional temperature-something Vance should want-without requiring him to back down; 3) Would ventilate the issues (revealing that tax treatment of parents ain’t that important for… https://t.co/zOVNAuG032 https://t.co/y8dG55htlI
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 27, 2024
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July 27, 2024 at 01:03AM
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Coulter on natalism: “One is left with the strong impression that these marriage and child boosters are people who are sorry they got married and had kids, so they have to turn their life’s greatest regret into the equivalent of landing at Normandy.” OK! https://t.co/zPePxrSpK5
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 27, 2024
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July 27, 2024 at 12:55AM
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Hmm. Fuyao is the subject of the (excellent) 2019 documentary American Factory. The UAW lost an organizing voter there in 2017. …. https://t.co/wJOMRCQfEd
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 27, 2024
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July 27, 2024 at 12:52AM
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Some Vance allies appear to have foolishly started defending, not just child tax credits but specifically Biden’s temporary 2021 expansion of the tax credit into a huge no-work dole. Manchin was right to block making Biden’s expansion permanent. https://t.co/uYbVh0pOED
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 26, 2024
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July 26, 2024 at 04:41PM
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Listen to just the beginning of this ABC News Report. How can you say the media is breathlessly cheerleading for Harris? https://t.co/BUYSekR5p5
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 26, 2024
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July 26, 2024 at 04:08PM
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Let’s see: She’s Attorney General in CA and community-destroying crime explodes! She’s something-or-other regarding the border and under the policies she supports illegal immigration explodes!
But her kids call her “Momala.” Let’s make her president! https://t.co/QEhhUxHU6W— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 26, 2024
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July 25, 2024 at 11:09PM
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“In order to fool the voters into passing Proposition 47 — decriminalizing crime — and Proposition 57 — allowing the release of thousands of violent criminals — Harris intentionally lied to the voters about what these laws would do.” https://t.co/QEhhUxHU6W
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 26, 2024
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July 25, 2024 at 11:03PM
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Thread https://t.co/Fz8yV55qIV
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Jul 26, 2024
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July 25, 2024 at 10:42PM
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“He knew that if you were standing around with a huge pack of reporters, that meant you weren’t doing it right.” https://t.co/qbE2kEy1Fc
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 26, 2024
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July 25, 2024 at 09:07PM
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It’s the defections that make this vote significant. Don’t these Democrats read @axios? https://t.co/nWhkxYUx76
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 25, 2024
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July 25, 2024 at 07:53PM
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More Rattner: “The number of employed native-born Americans has not grown meaningfully since 2019, but that’s largely because of retirements, not competition from immigrants..”1) Doesn’t contest Trump point that immigrants are getting the jobs; 2) “Largely” because of… https://t.co/ns8YZR0cM0
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 25, 2024
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July 25, 2024 at 02:20AM
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Ratttner to Biden’s defense! “[N]ot a single item tracked by the government is more than 56 percent more expensive than it was when Mr. Biden took office.” https://t.co/JTKDItOCYX
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 25, 2024
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July 25, 2024 at 02:15AM
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.@MarkHalperin says Kamala really is liberal (so the GOP’s negative ‘frame’ will ring true).
Also, women on the march! (Determined to not let Trump win over a female candidate, pissed about Vance’s “cat ladies’ remarks.)
OK!
That concludes today’s Halperin report.
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 25, 2024
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July 24, 2024 at 11:53PM
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Krikorian makes this point https://t.co/geAAYRLFZ8 citing this CNN article from early in Biden administration: https://t.co/fHvCK8YwMA https://t.co/CVnfKD4K1N
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Jul 25, 2024
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July 24, 2024 at 11:10PM
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Isn’t the truth that Biden thought to dump the whole border problem on Harris and she tried to weasel out of that responsibility & restrict it to fighting “root causes” in Central Am? She’s still responsible for it–her administration did it & there’s every indication she… https://t.co/QyolzXwXVq https://t.co/y9AgpjgYge
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 25, 2024
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July 24, 2024 at 10:57PM
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