Embrace Galbraith thought @jdcmedlock.bsky.social

Read @dogsinautumn.bsky.social today on why taxes are good and Democrats cannot cave to the temptation to campaign on lowering them

listen to Mr Medlock. what you do is tax the piss out of basically every transaction and make up for any unfairness with a super generous welfare state

Bezos retweeted the absolute worst slop infographic I've ever seen in my life.

Bezos says that the US has one of the most progressive tax codes. This is true by some measures. But our tax and transfer system reduces inequality far less than countries with broader tax systems. Tax cuts can't help people who don't have an income, but a generous tax financed welfare state can.

I think Democrats like Cory Booker should take a hard look in the mirror and consider why Jeff Bezos loves their tax cut proposals so much. Billionaires would love to see a weak state with a gutted fiscal capacity.

Pinnacles National Park is some of our finest publicly owned land. Saw 7 condors and 3 rattlesnakes.

Requiring the parent of a SNAP recipient to provide a written statement clarifying that a birthday money transfer was not recurring support is so dystopian.

Based and pragmatism pilled www.californiadsa.org/voterguide

I've been saying we need a progressive DOGE that actually focuses on making government work well rather than undermining it. But we need a better name. So how about DOPE: the Department of Public Excellence.

New working paper on the California Fast-Food minimum wage (will come out as NBER WP soon but posting now). Big increase in wages. Big drop in separations. Little change in jobs. (Bonus: sheds light on QWI vs QCEW measurement of jobs.)

I want this as a mural in every city

A second extremely based AOC anti-tax-slop quote has hit the TL

my newest in Liberal Currents: in celebration of Tax Day i make the case for liberals to collect more taxes, not less www.liberalcurrents.com/actually-col...

Maybe can live in a society that collectively funds public goods that we all benefit from rather than giving up on governance and joining a tax cut bidding war that we'll inevitably lose to shameless republicans...

It's such a breath of fresh air to see @aoc.bsky.social stand against gutting our tax base.

Yes, this argument drives me crazy - if you think Medicaid is corporate welfare, that would make Medicare for All the biggest corporate welfare program of them all. But neither would actually enable corporations to lower wages. Workers who are less desperate are able to hold out for higher wages.

*guy who mocked the pope for saying AI developers should cultivate moral discernment voice*

I was initially lukewarm on Steyer, but I’ve come around to the idea that it’s actively good to have a billionaire help lead the charge to tax billionaires.

It’s all well and good for tech leaders to endorse UBI. But it feels convenient to only focus on a distant political prospect. The GOP, right now, is doing reverse-UBI (work requirements on SNAP). It’d be nice to hear more objections to that.

Happy tax day! This should be a civic holiday, we should have a parade and give out taxpayer awards. ruthbraunstein.substack.com/p/what-does-...

I think progressives were right to be skeptical of the gig work labor model, so I’m happy to see it automated away as quickly as possible.

DOGE turbocharged the deficit. budgetlab.yale.edu/research/wea...

I’ve seen enough. God is 1) real 2) nonbinary 3) primarily motivated by a deep hatred of JD Vance

I am going to become the joker

Uninsured rate for children, by state. Texas accounts for a quarter of all children without health insurance in America.

Shot / chaser

Between medicaid cuts and restricting the immigrant doctors who actually serve rural areas, I've never seen a political movement so laser focused on killing their most loyal voters.

The view of Mount Diablo from Briones regional park

I whole-heartedly endorse this piece by our president, @elizabethwwilkins.bsky.social Chock full of @jdcmedlock.bsky.social thought if I do say so myself rooseveltinstitute.org/blog/beyond-...

Good job dems 👍

They’re cutting your healthcare to pay for a war that’s raising your gas prices.

Need Nithya to win so bad...

Inject it into my veins.

So funny to see conservatives accidentally make the case for single payer health insurance... www.aei.org/articles/the...

In a world where many democrats have embraced pie-in-the-sky middle class tax cuts, leave it to a democratic socialist like Mamdani to seriously engage with budgeting tradeoffs and embrace an efficient broad based property tax increase

I love this analogy. Regulatory reform is vitally important to expand capacity. But we need to pair it with federal investment policy to actually fill that capacity. We’ve done it before, and we can do it again.

One interesting aspect is Steyer's all-of-the-above approach to housing that bridges some of the divides. But he also has a (correct IMO) theory for why housing in California in particular is stuck: Prop 13. prospect.org/2026/03/24/t...

This is misleading. Here's how much the MA Millionaire Tax raised vs the most generous possible assumption of how much combined revenue was lost from millionaire movers.

I love this framing. Not excited about the CA Gov race but Steyer seems like clearly the best of our options.

The industrial policy that helped spawn the world's biggest semiconductor manufacturer traces directly back to the New Deal's Tennessee Valley Authority asteriskmag.com/issues/13/th...

Worth re-upping this great piece from @resnikoff.bsky.social. publiccomment.blog/p/sure-it-wo...

Great piece and an excuse to use the @jdcmedlock.bsky.social toast meme to show why the welfare state is good and worth paying higher taxes for

Fact check: true

WaPo Deputy Opinion Editor is just straight up lying about Mamdani's estate tax proposal (in both tweets and an op-ed). The bill contains a $1.75 million primary residence exemption, exempts retirement accounts, and the 50% marginal rate doesn’t kick in until $30 million.

DOGE was a huge win for the Effective Sociopathy movement