Dominic Pino
@DominicJPino
Editorial writer @washingtonpost | From WI, which does not border Canada | Tweets are mine, not my employer's
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Good article about how China has gone massively into debt and kicked millions of people off their property to build pointless bridges and underused airports and high-speed trains so that gullible people on websites like this one think communism is cool.
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Good corrective from @judgeglock on the view that DOGE was all bad or completely pointless.
It didn't cut spending or regulations in any meaningful way.
But it did cut federal workforce bloat, mostly through voluntary resignations, early retirements, and hiring freezes, not layoffs.
And the worst predictions about declining service quality have not come to pass, and many incidents have been exaggerated.
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🚨Narrative violation🚨
"In 2023, average income before transfers and taxes rose for households at the bottom of the income distribution and fell for those at the top."
"Income inequality decreased in 2023, whether measured before or after transfers and taxes."
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