Welp hopping on this bandwagon. 8-0! #ChampaBay
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Patrick Hedger
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Executive Director of the Taxpayers Protection Alliance (). Moderately-educated thoughts on policy. “Irrelevant.” - Sitting member of Congress.
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There’s been some debate about the RESTRICT Act today. I think this point is very important, especially agencies not leaving power on the table. Like, one of the biggest issues in environmental policy right now is the EPA unilaterally redefining the term “navigable waterway.”
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Replying to @jamil_n_jaffer
The broad power to investigate+repeated use of “any” throughout are troubling. As is discretion in agencies/WH to determine what entities are under the control of foreign adversaries, coupled w/ power to retroactively regulate. Agencies don’t usually leave power/discretion unused
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The broad power to investigate+repeated use of “any” throughout are troubling. As is discretion in agencies/WH to determine what entities are under the control of foreign adversaries, coupled w/ power to retroactively regulate. Agencies don’t usually leave power/discretion unused
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Before A.I. generated images we just had Dubya
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And his Africa legacy gave us this all-timer
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We have to regulate for the world where over a billion people are still addicted to smoking, not the imaginary one we wish we had where no one ever started.
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"It’s time for American public health leaders to drop the alarmism and start embracing (and promoting) alternatives to smoking."
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"It’s time for American public health leaders to drop the alarmism and start embracing (and promoting) alternatives to smoking."
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Here’s my new blog “ FedNow Isn’t a CBDC But Still Contains Many Dangers.” FedNow - I say - “contains many of the dangers of a CBDC and some unique dangers of its own as far as unprecedented Federal Reserve intrusion into the everyday economy.”
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And of course most of our other ports aren’t useable for the same kind of ships because of the Foreign Dredge Act.
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"Union Dockworkers Stop Showing Up to Work" nationalreview.com/corner/union-d via @DominicJPino
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Basically just saying your customer service complaint is not necessarily a public policy issue. As you were.
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The people that own Twitter can decide what content is allowed on Twitter. Has always been true and remains so. 🤷♂️
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From antitrust to SEC rules to cost-benefit analyses, this administration is injecting just a ridiculous amount of subjectivity into regulation. Chaos and uncertainty for business follows.
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.@USChamber Opposes Changes to Regulatory Cost-Benefit Analysis That Would Unleash More Regulatory Overreach
Quoting @NeilBradleyDC uschamber.com/regulations/u-
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The IRS, notoriously keen on imposing deadlines on everyone else, released its own report 48 days late.
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It is long overdue to repeal aluminum tariffs.
More from , Dir. of TPA's Consumer Center: protectingtaxpayers.org/trade/national
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🚨 TPA Slams the IRS’ New Spending Plan 🚨
"Taxpayer advocates warned about the harms to American families that would be caused by using this to increase audits and enforcement measures. Today, those worst fears have been realized." -
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Daisy Ridley will star as Rey in Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy’s #StarWars film 
Set 15 years after Ep. 9, she will be tasked with rebuilding the Jedi Order
Set 15 years after Ep. 9, she will be tasked with rebuilding the Jedi Order3
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Just read some details and can confirm Courtney’s suspicions. Looks like they’re injecting all sorts of subjective metrics into cost/benefits analyses for regulations. 🫠
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I’m suspicious of changes to the regulatory review process from the Biden administration.
Biden has shown a clear interest in pursuing a political agenda through agencies and regulation for wins during a divided congress. Interested to see what experts say about this news dump.
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This is code for all-but adopting California’s ban on internal combustion engines.
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U.S. EPA TO PROPOSE NEW VEHICLE GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS RULES AS EARLY AS NEXT WEEK -- SOURCES
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New IRS spending plan allocates $45.6 billion on ramping up audits, more than 14x the spending for improving taxpayer services.
Nice Easter news dump.
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Whether the specific commentary is factual or not, the technical critique of the CBDC is correct. It could allow enforcement of laws through direct control of your money. If you believe laws are always good and just, this sounds amazing. If you know they are not, it’s terrifying.
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Holy moly, these DeSantis comments on the Fed are insane
Don't get me wrong: Fed has made mistakes, is not immune to criticism. But according to DeSantis, the real problem is that Fed wants to create central bank digital currency so that it can help liberals take away your guns
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Not sure will be able to handle me becoming a bandwagon baseball fan overnight. #ChampaBay #LongLiveTheTrop
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I'm from St. Petersburg and was at the very first game in franchise history so I'm excited to be able to hop on this bandwagon whenever.
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The Rays are off to a red-hot start to the 2023 MLB season, having cruised out to a perfect 6–0 record trib.al/pxCYVO5
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Those guys were just looking for a fuse box or something.
Forrest Gump 🤝 Sohrab Ahmari
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I mean, in the same paragraph he says reactions to industrial policy failures must be resisted… and then says Tiananmen Square was a reaction to industrial policy failure. Bruh.
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“China eventually got it right after it mowed down some protestors” is a take.
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I mean we didn’t even “learn and adjust” after the baby formula crisis. The same stupid policies that created it went right back into effect.
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Industrial policy *by definition* concentrates benefits and disperses costs, making change incredibly difficult until the subsidized entity just fails outright.
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*laughs in 100+ years of Jones Act backfiring*
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Industrial policy is hitting some speed bumps and making some mistakes. That was always inevitable. The key is to quickly recognize the problems, and learn, and adjust.
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Sorry but I’ve seen too many people taking digs at him for wearing sneaker-soled shoes to not bring up the fact that we have no idea if he’s dealing with a medical issue. Maybe he has arthritis or something.
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the world is laughing at us twitter.com/iingwen/status…
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The whole debate about NPR being labeled “state-funded media” is interesting timing, considering a bill was just introduced in Congress to allow most of the rest of the media to skirt antitrust law and extract rents from tech companies. Indirect… but pretty direct state funding.
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Wait… does this mean those red lights that make heat in old bathrooms will be banned?? ☹️
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"Starting in August, Americans will only be able to purchase LED lights from retailers across the nation as an official ban on incandescent lightbulbs will be in full effect." newsnationnow.com/business/tech/
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I think the presidency should be something people don’t really want to run for
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JUST IN - Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is running for president — AP
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Industrial policy! 🙃
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This is as bad as people sharing images from advertisements from the 50s and 60s and asking where it all went 🙄
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*isolated, short video of a few people smiling*
“My entire worldview is so true.”
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It really feels like Millennials were the last people who got a largely apolitical high school experience. I don’t remember anything political, just a bubble of blissful ignorance. “Jackass” and Blink-182 were popular. The main concern was asking out your crush. twitter.com/PicturesFoIder…
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Really cuts against the whole "We don't have it as good as previous generations" stuff
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This is what happens when you grow up with TikTok and Instagram 
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Gen Z is more likely to buy a Luxury car than any other generation:
Gen Z: 39%
Millennials: 29%
Gen X: 27%
Boomers: 12%
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Gen Z is more likely to buy a Luxury car than any other generation:
Gen Z: 39%
Millennials: 29%
Gen X: 27%
Boomers: 12%
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People say crypto doesn’t have any value… but if you put a little money in it, the memes alone about the rollercoaster market are worth it.
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The first job AI should take is Mayor of Chicago.
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is it possible that Chicago will replace the horrific Lori Lightfoot with someone even worse?
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Lol 🤣
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As of 2:08 PM CT: California Zephyr Train 5, which is scheduled to depart Chicago (CHI) on 4/4, will be delayed departing Chicago (CHI) due to paperwork issues. We will provide updates as information becomes available.
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