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Lucien Gross @luciengross.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

I only wish Trump was in the pockets of Wall Street as much as some Democrats say he is; then, he’d have listened to them and avoided this disaster!

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Lucien Gross @luciengross.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Jared Golden supporting a massive tax hike that will disproportionately harm his constituents. Unbelievable.

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

presented without comment. via @jonathanbchait.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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Lucien Gross @luciengross.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

There is no perfect energy policy. But if we continue our current policy of stopping anything that may cause short-term risks, we risk immense long-term damage. We have to be utilitarian.

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Lucien Gross @luciengross.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

But even those are often having negative consequences. NEPA is slowing down a significant number of clean energy projects. ifp.org/no-nepa-real...

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No, NEPA Really Is a Problem for Clean Energy | IFP

Four reasons the arguments of NEPA defenders miss the mark

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Lucien Gross @luciengross.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Look at the recent AI regulation proposals spearheaded by companies like OpenAI. There’s no tragedy there, just companies trying to squash potential competitors by introducing red tape that only they are experienced enough to get around.

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Lucien Gross @luciengross.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

I’m a bit disappointed that, for such a strong YIMBY, you’re not willing to apply that logic to other industries and realize we are over-regulated, not under-regulated.

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Tyler Harris @tylerharris.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Doing something solely because it is prohibited abdicates control over and responsibility for one’s own actions and decisions every bit as much as doing something solely because it is mandated does.

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Lucien Gross @luciengross.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

A land value tax, not actual socialization. And you don’t have to decide these things, that’s why there’s a free market.

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Lucien Gross @luciengross.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Those were government-run projects, this proposal would be private property on public land

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

The take I am most certain of that gets me in the most trouble is just "The reason homes are so expensive is because there are not enough of them, so we really really really need to build more of them."

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Lucien Gross @luciengross.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

And that shouldn’t belong to the individual. Read Henry George.

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

congestion pricing is a policy miracle

But Ilena Robbins, 37, believes congestion pricing has already been transformative.
It is not hyperbole to say that crossing Canal Street, a notoriously clogged east-west thoroughfare with four - and in some places six - lanes, used to make her fear for her life.
Ms. Robbins, who grew up in Manhattan but now lives in Queens, compared navigating the intersection where she works, at Canal and Lafayette Streets, to a game of Frogger - at least in the old days.
"It would stress me out just getting lunch, she said. Thursday was her first day there post-congestion pricing. "I couldn't believe it," she said. "I was able to cross safely, and cars weren't honking. It was like a whole other world."

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Lucien Gross @luciengross.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

The Consumer Welfare Standard has been the paradigm for a long time, the Biden-era shift away from it means antitrust laws themselves are de facto harsher than previously.

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Derek Thompson @dkthomp.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Ratio me away to Valhalla, but practically the entire developed world is experiencing a right-wing surge as progressives lose ground in country after country, in large part because of a unique global inflation crisis that many traditional economists, including the pictured Jason Furman, saw coming.

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Lucien Gross @luciengross.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

That’s not true, the neocons wanted to bring democracy, the Trumpists want to take democracy away

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Lucien Gross @luciengross.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

What are your thoughts on a land-value tax plan, which would remove the current property tax structure that penalizes development while incentivizing speculators to do something with their land?

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Lucien Gross @luciengross.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Funny enough Canada doesn’t have free trade between its provinces, but inter-state trade restrictions are banned by the constitution. Annexation would actually majorly expand free trade!

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Nick Kristof @nickkristof.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

@crampell.bsky.social on Biden's legacy: "Despite the $7.5 billion allocated for EV charging stations, only 44 stations have been built nationwide so far. A $42 billion expansion of broadband internet service still has not connected a single household." www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

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Opinion | The legacy of Bidenomics: Maybe not much at all

Biden struggled to implement economic policies that will endure past his presidency.

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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

where does the new york times even find these people

A screenshot of a New York Times update that says: In Grand Central Terminal, Leon Chang, 26, of Brooklyn, said he had not heard of congestion pricing and asked what it was. When explained it was a toll for cars entering Manhattan, he then asked “What do you mean? What is a car?” Walking outside, we showed him a vehicle parked on the street. He gently touched the hood of the car. “You wish to forbid these majestic beasts from entering the city,” he said in a wistful tone. “It is a folly of man. The desire to tame the world around us.”

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Lucien Gross @luciengross.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

This may be the only way to get MAGA to support free trade and free immigration

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 06/01/2025

they don't believe dems are doing anything about it--and they're right!

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Lucien Gross @luciengross.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

If Roosevelt was less abrasive in the 1938 primaries, the party switch might not have happened

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Lucien Gross @luciengross.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

There’s a good Blair quote about this.

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Lucien Gross @luciengross.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

Milton Friedman comes for us all

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Most businesspeople are always going to prefer Republicans because of low taxes, but the post-2012 effort to *deliberately stigmatize center-left business people* was a disaster. www.slowboring.com/p/liberalism...

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Liberalism not socialism

Democrats need to stop acting like business careers are immoral or corrupt

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Jessica Riedl @jessicabriedl.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Trump opposes using existing technology & automation to more quickly & efficiently process the goods entering & leaving our ports ... because the waste, inefficiency, cost overruns, and delays will require more jobs. The short-sighted economic illteracy knows no bounds.

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Lucien Gross @luciengross.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

The U.S. has its founding fathers, but they’re long dead. Going forward, perhaps Ayn Rand had a point, and to find popular heroes we need to look to the private sector, to the people innovating and advancing society.

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Lucien Gross @luciengross.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

A big reason for the Weimar Republic’s fall was that the Empire was seen as a land of kings and knights, while the Republic was a land of bureaucrats and career politicians. To survive, liberal democracy needs heroes.

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 18/12/2024

there was a good study out of germany that seemed to show that increasing national immigration generated backlash... but *local* immigration levels drove increasing acceptance of immigrants the people who are most bothered by immigrants are least affected

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Reason Magazine @reason.com · 17/12/2024

New York City's outdoor dining saga is a cautionary tale for what happens when cities prioritize bureaucratic control over innovation. What began as a creative, organic solution to an economic and social problem has been stifled by overregulation.

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The death and life of New York outdoor dining

What began as a vibrant, organic solution to a crisis has been stifled by overregulation.

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Lucien Gross @luciengross.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Will all of us who’ve deleted Twitter still be able to vote in some way?

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Lucien Gross @luciengross.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

In a business, the shareholders have the power, not the buyers.

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Mr. Beat @iammrbeat.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

There is absolutely no way my tariffs video would already have nearly 75,000 views if not for Donald Trump wanting to raise tariffs. Tariffs are boring to most folks. The curiosity to learn about them was just not there before. I wish they were curious sooner. Now it's too late.

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Lucien Gross @luciengross.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Al Smith’s face was also turned into a mug for some reason

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David Frum @davidfrum.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

I became a Republican in the 1980s because I believed in markets, competition, and innovation - and ceased to be a Republican in the 2020s because I believe in markets, competition, and innovation.

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Seva @seva.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

elite overproduction is so bad that ivy leaguers are now taking traditional working-class jobs like assassin

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Lucien Gross @luciengross.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

He’s the Joe Rogan of The Left, not of the left.

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Lucien Gross @luciengross.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

That this predicts the election down to the state is crazy.

Google Trends map of CNN and Fox News, which perfectly correlates with the election results

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Lucien Gross @luciengross.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

A lot of it is foreign interference, but there are also some who have, on their own, stoped supporting democracy. We can’t deflect everything to other countries.

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Zellnor Myrie @zellnor.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

NYC’s housing is so expensive because we don’t build nearly enough of it. Tokyo and Jersey City are building far more housing per capita than we are. Whether it’s our local or global competition, we're falling far short. It’s time to Rebuild NYC. zellnor.nyc/rebuildnyc

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

I used to be a fan of presidentialism when I taught political science, but lately I'm, uh, having second thoughts

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Lucien Gross @luciengross.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

More fault for that should be given to Trump, but Biden definitely deserves the low marks.

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Lucien Gross @luciengross.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

The South Korean president was elected because society failed to address an epidemic of misogyny, and he’s now attempting a coup. If young, right-leaning men have nowhere to go but incel echo chambers, this is what happens.

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Lucien Gross @luciengross.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Same here, it was from @micaherfan.com’s new starter pack

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