if american firms have to hire american workers and the americans who work are allowed to spend their income, they will have kidshttps://twitter.com/DouthatNYT/status/936057275319496705 …
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everything i know about public choice theory says that once you start taxing ppl to subsidize their “needs”, you end up funneling money away from families to bureaucrats and poz
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@DouthatNYT thinks that since x+y > x, and the GOP has the votes to pass out y, it should pass out y…. but the prob isn’t that this deduction or that deduction is too small, it’s the whole shitty foundation1 reply 0 retweets 4 likesShow this thread -
“subsidize all sorts of random stuff that congressional representatives like and then use the resulting tax burden to carve out tax subsidies for their favorite constituents” is not natalist!
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At any rate, the major obstacles that stand in the way of natalism don't show up in any CBO figures. Open borders destroys communities and neighborhoods; feminism destroys life trajectories.
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Replying to @QuasLacrimas @DouthatNYT
Uprooting your entire life in search of the ever elusive "good schools"
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"good schools" = trying to replace restrictive covenants with snob pricing
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Replying to @QuasLacrimas @DouthatNYT
Maybe Douthat will do a Twitter rant on the removal of restrictive covenants as a regressive tax that disproportionately hits the lower middle class and working poor
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