DEMS: A $600 monthly Child Tax Credit check for poor single moms without a job is transformative!
CRITICS: But won’t that discourage them from working?
DEMS: It’s only a measly $600!
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 23, 2021
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July 23, 2021 at 10:00AM
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“In the quarter-century since welfare reform was enacted, the poverty rate of non-married single-parent families has dropped by two-thirds, from around 30 percent before reform to around 10 percent in 2019.” https://t.co/t7tvQux6lb
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 23, 2021
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July 23, 2021 at 02:08AM
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“The child allowance is a Trojan horse in which the illusion of tax relief is used to mask the real objective of reversing the work-based focus of welfare reform in the 1990s and restoring unconditional cash aid to non-working families.” https://t.co/t7tvQux6lb
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 23, 2021
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July 23, 2021 at 12:10AM
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“Welfare reform was also based on an understanding that paying able-bodied people not to work was not good for either society or recipients. It tends to push individuals out of the labor force and toward the margins of society …” https://t.co/t7tvQux6lb
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 23, 2021
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July 22, 2021 at 11:57PM
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What does Col. Vindman say? https://t.co/ZuTVqbSHB7
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 23, 2021
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July 22, 2021 at 11:47PM
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.@Axios sneers at the “nobodies” running in California’s recall free-for-all. Common MSM attitude guaranteed to ensure all nobodies remain nobodies. (Caitlyn Jenner, on the other hand, is a “more serious contender” …) https://t.co/x9gjhI6bbS
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 23, 2021
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July 22, 2021 at 11:11PM
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Of course the @NYTimes blames those stupid “vaccinated Americans” who thought they were “completely shielded.” Can’t blame health experts who led them to think that. They are never wrong. [NB DON’T CENSE ME BRO: I’m pro-vax. People should get vaxxed, so they don’t die. Simple.] https://t.co/uG7eXUGA6I
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 23, 2021
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July 22, 2021 at 08:22PM
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Here’s prestigious science-based @TheAtlantic assuring us 2 days ago that “Breakthrough cases of COVID-19 remain very, very rare.” https://t.co/HHwYDpW75z Looks like maybe not so very very rare. https://t.co/sqp80h35oH
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 23, 2021
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July 22, 2021 at 08:14PM
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You can find the link to the PDF of the Dem “Message Framing” in Punchbowl News AM here [3rd item] https://t.co/nmo2Xt0Gwz https://t.co/rQ2XQkrsvW
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 23, 2021
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July 22, 2021 at 08:00PM
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If it’s sold as a middle class tax cut and not as an antipoverty measure, doesn’t that make it easier for moderate Dems to argue for keeping the middle class tax cut parts and ditching the (“refundable”) welfare-checks-for-non-taxpayers parts? Just asking! https://t.co/rQ2XQkrsvW
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 22, 2021
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July 22, 2021 at 07:46PM
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Looks like Dems (after polling 7 one-line slogans) have decided on selling the Biden child checks as a tax cut that “lowers costs for working families.” The pitch about cutting child poverty didn’t test well? [PDF] https://t.co/LjkNVUD7hp…
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 22, 2021
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July 22, 2021 at 07:42PM
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Looks like Dems (after polling 7 one-line slogans) have decided on selling the Biden child checks as a tax cut that “lowers costs for working families.” The pitch about cutting child poverty didn’t test well? https://t.co/ilJWCrSPY2
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 22, 2021
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July 22, 2021 at 07:40PM
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Translation: It’s a sore spot with Joe. We don’t want to bring it up again. https://t.co/BDwJoYCXh7
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 22, 2021
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July 22, 2021 at 07:08PM
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Humorless and self-important @TheAtlantic loses 51.9% of traffic, year to year. Laurene should notice that. As my podcast colleague RW pointed out, theres a potential editor replacement now hiding in plain sight (as CEO). https://t.co/3hbVuUjZ6t
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 22, 2021
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July 22, 2021 at 05:08AM
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It’s possible that things like the Feiler Faster Principle would support more frequent elections. 4 year terms now seem endless. https://t.co/0SJ7RL0h0V
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 22, 2021
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July 22, 2021 at 04:25AM
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Suddenly Newsom, facing a recall, cares about everyday crime. Maybe there’s a case for having a recall every year. A.B.R.! https://t.co/ymcXl93xPH
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 22, 2021
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July 21, 2021 at 10:58PM
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The top item in today’s NewsItems (https://t.co/avldH3AksC) is v-depressing news from the Dutch about the Delta variant. Not sure it has yet been grokked & incorporated in US policies (if it’s true). Here is a link (not in English) to the article cited https://t.co/ysIVTSKeWn
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 22, 2021
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July 21, 2021 at 10:56PM
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There is really now a hockey team called the Kraken? Cthulhu would be better.
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 22, 2021
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July 21, 2021 at 09:57PM
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Milley should resign, I think. Don’t think it matters whether he conveyed these statements directly to reporters or through aides. It didn’t matter to Gen. McChrystal. https://t.co/wOBgCLoyOh
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 21, 2021
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July 21, 2021 at 05:01PM
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“to characterize many of [Trump’s] supporters as ‘brownshirts’…can only intensify the sense among millions of Americans that the institutions of their government regard their grievances as treasonous-[and] Milley’s Army has enlisted on a political side” https://t.co/PRkAH8sJYn
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 21, 2021
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July 21, 2021 at 03:13PM
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Why is Hannity emailing me with a “Trick To Clean Your Bowels”? Doesn’t he have enough money? There’s the case for a higher marginal tax rate right there.
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 21, 2021
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July 21, 2021 at 01:19AM
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“It’s bad for the labor supply” is a pretty anodyne/spinny way to say “it threatens to rebuild the isolated underclass of non-working broken homes that was our greatest national domestic problem when President Clinton addressed it in 1996.” https://t.co/4J0IeSIEsS
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 21, 2021
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July 20, 2021 at 09:19PM
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ALSO RUBIO: “President Biden is looking to transform our successful child tax credit into a ‘government child allowance’ that gives cash to parents who aren’t working… In other words, he’s bringing back the same failed welfare policies of the 1990s that he once railed against.” https://t.co/wOERcp3Oum
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 21, 2021
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July 20, 2021 at 08:14PM
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Wait — one of the charges is that Barrack changed a word in his own op-ed? https://t.co/iI3V2NknlE
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 21, 2021
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July 20, 2021 at 08:07PM
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Could the third wave be running out of steam [in UK]? https://t.co/jklLtEr2yl On the other hand, here’s the same writer saying the same thing about the second wave https://t.co/AH2e3UQzsb
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jul 20, 2021
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July 20, 2021 at 04:11PM
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