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Hillary Clinton lying for 13 minutes straight

20 May 2016 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in economics of information, economics of media and culture, politics - USA Tags: 2016 presidential election

Most @BernieSanders’ supporters don’t want to #FeelTheBern in their hip-pocket

13 May 2016 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in politics - USA, public economics Tags: 2016 presidential election, Bernie Sanders, expressive voting, Left-wing hypocrisy, rational ignorance, rational irrationality

66 percent of Sanders supporters are unwilling to pay more than $1,000 in higher taxes for universal health care. This includes the 8 percent of Sanders supporters who aren’t willing to pay anything more!

Source: Most Bernie Sanders supporters aren’t willing to pay for his revolution – Vox.

Sanders supporters want free public college tuition but 14 percent said they don’t want to pay additional taxes for it; another half said they would only pay up to $1,000 a year!

Source: Most Bernie Sanders supporters aren’t willing to pay for his revolution – Vox.

@BernieSanders should be the @realdonaldtrump’s running mate

08 May 2016 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, international economics, politics - USA Tags: 2016 presidential election, comparative advantage, free trade, left-wing popularism, rational ignorance, rational rationality, right-wing popularism

@BernieSanders’ good old days before the great wage stagnation

07 May 2016 Leave a comment

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Straight talking from @BernieSanders on #sugartaxes @JordNZ

06 May 2016 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory, health economics, income redistribution, politics - USA, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: 2016 presidential election, do gooders, heavy-handed Samaritans, meddlesome preferences, nanny state, regressive taxes, sin taxes, soda taxes, sugar taxes

Source: Bernie Sanders Op-Ed: A Soda Tax Would Hurt Philly’s Poor.

@BernieSanders nothing is free in Denmark

24 Apr 2016 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied welfare economics, fiscal policy, politics - USA, public economics Tags: 2016 presidential election, Denmark, growth of government, size of government, social insurance, taxation and labour supply, welfare state

Source: Brutal Meme Reveals Truth About European Socialist Countries? : snopes.com.

How generous are unemployment benefits? See #stats & #dataviz in our #tax/benefits database https://t.co/ND9MdCF187 pic.twitter.com/jcH0XIit4m

— OECD ➡️ Better Policies for Better Lives (@OECD) April 13, 2016

Avg hrs worked / wk

Turkey: 49
Mexico: 45
Greece: 39
USA: 39
France: 36
Germany: 35https://t.co/MD1lZBegQw pic.twitter.com/62lEcJnFC8

— Max Galka (@galka_max) January 18, 2016

P.T. Bauer on @BernieSanders extending #fightfor15 to entire Third World!

19 Apr 2016 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied welfare economics, behavioural economics, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles, P.T. Bauer, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: 2016 presidential election, antiforeign buyers, George Orwell, living wage, rational irrationality, The fatal conceit, The pretense to knowledge

India tried that in the 1950s as part of its five-year plans. It did not work that well. Bauer said that in development economics there is a “need to restate the obvious.”

Source: Ending the Race to the Bottom – Bernie Sanders.

Source: Indian Economic Policy and Development – P. T. Bauer (1959) – Google Books

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One in 3 @realdonaldtrump supporters actually believe he will build the wall

14 Apr 2016 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in politics - USA Tags: 2016 presidential election, economics of immigration, illegal immigration, Mexico, the economics of borders

@BillClinton was not triangulating on welfare reform

11 Apr 2016 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in gender, labour economics, labour supply, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, welfare reform Tags: 1996 US welfare reforms, 2016 presidential election, Bill Clinton, child poverty, family poverty, single mothers, single parents, social insurance, welfare state

The enormous costs of socialism in Eastern European @BernieSanders @jeremycorbyn @johnmcdonnellMP

09 Apr 2016 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles, law and economics, Marxist economics Tags: 2016 presidential election, British politics, collapse of communism, economics of socialism, Leftover Left

The enormous (and, as of 2016, strangely downplayed) costs of Socialism: pic.twitter.com/VSP9UE4Ziz

— Jan Zilinsky (@janzilinsky) April 4, 2016

@BernieSanders just wants to build a different type of wall to @realdonaldtrump’s

09 Apr 2016 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, development economics, growth disasters, growth miracles, industrial organisation, international economics, labour economics, labour supply, politics - USA Tags: 2016 presidential election, antiforeign bias, economics of immigration, left-wing popularism, Mexico, NAFTA, right-wing popularism, The Great Escape, trade agreements

I have voted against and led the opposition to every one of these disastrous trade agreements. pic.twitter.com/6PQMpWkeyK

— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) April 8, 2016

The TPP vote today will mean a continuation of disastrous trade policies which have cost our country millions of decent-paying jobs.

— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) June 23, 2015

The Trans-Pacific Partnership will increase our trade deficits & send even more jobs overseas. This is a bad deal. Time for smart trade!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 3, 2015

@billclinton absolutely nails #blacklivesmatter

09 Apr 2016 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in discrimination, economics of crime, law and economics, politics - USA, poverty and inequality Tags: 2016 presidential election, Bill Clinton, crime and punishment, law and order, police shootings, street gangs

@BernieSanders @GrantRobertson1 why does anyone bother to work in #Denmark?

06 Apr 2016 Leave a comment

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Which @realDonaldTrump moment has been most controversial?

06 Apr 2016 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in politics - USA Tags: 2016 presidential election

Source: "Punish women for abortions" voted most controversial Trump statement (so far) – CapX.

Political bias, free trade and @berniesanders @realdonaldtrump

31 Mar 2016 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, economics of media and culture, industrial organisation, international economics, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: 2016 presidential election, antiforeign bias, antimarket bias, makework bias, pessimism bias, rational irrationality

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