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Capitalist Vision retweeted
When you use diff-in-diff with staggered treatment to see if demand curves slope down
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Dismantling USAID Hasn't Killed Anyone According to liberals, we have a MORAL DUTY to go into debt to give money to people in need all over the Earth, and if we don’t, we’re RESPONSIBLE FOR THEIR DEATHS. But, we are not the only country in the world, so if they need medicine in Kenya or food in Haiti and people are dying because they don’t have it, why isn’t someone else doing it? How about the people that live there? What about their governments? How about China or Russia? What about the EU? What does the United Nations do? How about NGOs? Billionaires? If liberals are so upset about it, why doesn’t someone like Bernie Sanders or AOC encourage donors to chip into fund that can be used for this? Why is the United States EXPECTED TO GO INTO FURTHER DEBT to pay for this? Oh, that’s right. The Left really cares about USAID because it was used to fund liberal NGOs, act as a jobs program for the Left, promote socialist values and get taxpayer dollars cycled back into Democratic political organizations. So, they blame us for deaths halfway around the world that have nothing to do with us to scam more money out of the American people to use to fill their coffers. What it all comes down to is that our country is $39 trillion in debt, and doling out money to charity is something only countries running in the black should be doing if there’s no benefit to it. Could you make a case for it after some rare, particularly heart-rending disaster? Sure, maybe. But it makes no sense to borrow money to give away to other nations in return for nothing, year after year. We should have stopped doing that decades ago.
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@AFpostJun 21
The dismantling of USAID has already ensued in roughly 600,000 deaths, about 400,000 of them children, in poor nations abroad, according to Boston University epidemiologist Brooke Nichols. The toll is expected to rise as health infrastructure that became reliant on Western support deteriorates, resulting in deaths that may take months or years to register. Follow: @AFpost
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New data shows light-touch broadband regulation is delivering: popular plan prices fell 8.7% from 2024–25 and 63% since 2015, while speeds have surged. The U.S. avoided heavy net-neutrality utility rules & consumers are getting faster, cheaper internet as a result. @AjitPai cei.org/blog/a-year-end-bles…
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Happy Thanksgiving! I hope you enjoy your Most Affordable Thanksgiving Ever: cato.org/blog/thanksgiving-a…
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Capitalist Vision retweeted
Replying to @ZohranKMamdani
I registered to vote for Zohran. #Zohran #Mamdani
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Replying to @RBReich
You have a history of willfully misrepresenting data. My figures come from the BLS. As a former Labor Secretary, you should know better! Median CEO pay $206,420 Median Pay all occupations $49,590. Ratio of CEO to worker pay = 4.17
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Politicians claim the wealthy don’t pay their “fair share.” The data tell a different story: 📊 The top 10% cover 72% of all income taxes. 💰 Billionaires pay higher tax rates than most Americans. See the data: cato.org/blog/whats-tax-rate…
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Socialist Zohran Mamdani making 142K+ his wife's income and living in a rent controlled apartment proves that rent control (like other socialist policies) only benefits the lucky and well-connected, harming the poor. If he becomes Mayor, get ready for a lot of stories like this.
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