#POLITICAL

Journal of Public Economics

JPubEcon

Recently published paper in @JPubEcon :"Do Americans Want to Tax Wealth? Evidence from Online Surveys" Vol 188 (August)by Raymond Fisman(@RFisman ), Keith Gladstone, Ilyana Kuziemko(@ikuziemko ), and Suresh Naidu (@snaidunl

Duncan Hothersall🌹

dhothersall

So this seems to have provoked quite a lot of, eh, debate. 900 mostly angry responses and still coming thick and fast. A reasonable proportion are just variations of "fuck

Ani O'Brien

aniobrien

My opinions on everything are constantly evolving as I learn more & the situation regarding US politics is no different.I believe we should all be willing to adjust our opinions

Raffi Melkonian

RMFifthCircuit

I'm not going to get into political recriminations for all this yet. We're still in the thick of it. But I will say - I had dramatically undervalued in my

Baron Pastor “Now’s not the time” Jimberoo 😷

PastorJimberoo1

Why Stormont/ Devolution needs scrapped and a proper discussion had on alternatives.Thread 1. It hasnt delivered any material +ve outcomes in 22yrs. Socio economically nothibg has improved. We still

Rohana Rezel

rohanarezel

What I'm about to say will make me unelectable in Vancouver, but I'm going to say it anyway.All new social housing in Vancouver needs to be built in the most

Hugo Rifkind

hugorifkind

Cancel culture is actually a never-ending spiral of totalitarian revulsion. "I am disgusted by this, everyone should be disgusted by this, if he is not disgusted by this then I

Daniella Montemarano

drmontemarano

MINI-THREAD on IDPs/#BurkinaFaso's municipal electionsAs BF looks ahead to the upcoming municipal elections (ostensibly scheduled for May 2021, assuming no revisions to the electoral code), 3 electoral violence concerns pervade

Scott B. Ritner

podsekalnikov

I agree with a lot of what @MarxinHell does here. Opening the relation. I would also add that @robynmarasco made the excellent point that the family, as a whole, is

The Goddess of Light

GoddessCru

When the Black celebrity class attempts to leverage their “celebrity” on “our behalf” it’s always on some money shit— Never about what communities need. Not housing, health, education or the

Grammie4Truth👵🏻

gollysue4truth

Someday we are told that when Jesus returns to earth he will make it all things new. But what do we do in the meantime? We are given one command

Kodama Mama

CaseyExplosion

Something I'd been mulling around in my mind for a while now, is how we really talk enough about just how alienating and isolating it can be to be expected

DSA Übermensch ☀️

ApollonianValor

I get that yesterday was exciting and on some level it sends a message but let’s look at it for what it is. The right wing was in the chambers

Ari

AriWRees

There's a lot of talk on the right about how religious liberty (read: Christianity) is under attack. To me, the biggest threat to it is how so many have malaligned

Alex Stevens

AlexStevensKent

The @publicapptscomm has responded to a complaint about ministers barring a candidate from appointment to the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs #acmdis2021. …https://publicappointmentscommissioner.independent.gov.uk/complaints/

Esfandyar Batmanghelidj

yarbatman

1. For decades, depictions of the War on Terror in news, movies, and video games repeated potent imagery that became motifs—"the convoy" + "holy book and gun" etc.It makes *total*

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