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Nate Silver@NateSilver538
Borrowing this from the @mattyglesias newsletter but it's funny that when Democracy got together a group of scholars to rewrite the constitution, they added a wealth tax but didn't do anything to clarify, say, the presidential line of succession beyond VP.
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2:17 PM · Jun 22, 2021
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Apparently law professors are not so good at designing workable tax law. I honestly didn't expect that.
Richard Kadrey@Richard_Kadrey
Good morning.
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4:15 PM · Jun 22, 2021
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The riddle contest sounds cool, but I think the new Forza may have more depth.
Youyang Gu@youyanggu
Income is not correlated at all with total Covid deaths, but income *inequality* is.
While intuitively this makes sense, this clear dichotomy was extremely surprising for me.
(By the way, there is almost no correlation between income and income inequality)
7:21 PM · Jun 22, 2021
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So, this is interesting, but I wonder if for some reason, income inequality correlates with population age in a way income itself doesn't.
Joel D. Anderson@byjoelanderson
“After departments unionized, there was a 'substantial increase' in police killings of civilians. Neither crime rates nor the safety of officers themselves was affected." @AdamSerwer on the problem with police unions, an excerpt from his upcoming book. theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…
3:56 AM · Jun 22, 2021
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I tend to agree with Yglesias at this point: we should increase police pay, and simultaneously get rid of police unions.
Noah Smith 🐇@Noahpinion
America has less reliable electricity than other rich countries.
marginalrevolution.com
USA fact of the day - Marginal REVOLUTION
7:04 AM · Jun 22, 2021
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Burying power lines gets results
Kevin Fox is hopeful 🦊😷@kfury
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11:11 PM · Jun 22, 2021
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Land wars in asia…
