"OK I'm going to defect but just this once and we'll all cooperate afterward it's just a one-time game wait stop where are you going I said it was a one-time game no I'm retaining the ability to do it again but I told you it's just a one-time game come back it's game theoreti—"

"When I say America means freedom, I don’t mean the freedom to pursue wealth or power. I mean the right to an ordinary life: the right to sit, to sing, to swim, to dance, to move, to exist without asking permission." thefp.com/p/how-the-coun…

Allysia Finley reports on New York's push for higher taxes, citing research by Hoover Senior Fellow @JoshRauh that showed how California's 2012 tax hikes drove high earners away and generated 56% less revenue than expected. Read more in Wall Street Journal Opinion: wsj.com/opinion/zohran…

While economists disagree on many policy issues, trade is not one of them. Survey data suggest that 95% of economists agree that tariffs tend to reduce economic welfare. Another 90% do not think the United States should restrict outsourcing. humanprogress.org/the-triumph-of…

HOLY MOLY: Hillsborough’s leading stadium cheerleader says he’s been basing his longstanding support for subsidies on “excitement and energy,” rather than actual tax receipts. But Andy Paden brought the damn receipts!!!

Five years ago today. A beautiful graph.

NYTimes article quotes someone saying they are "terrified" of Waymo in paragraph 6. Waits until paragraph 33 (out of 44 paragraphs) to mention that they are 91 percent safer than human drivers. How outraged would liberals be if a news outlet covered vaccines like this?

Seems about right, although as Ernie Tedeschi and others have noted even wartime price controls are sometimes continued well after wars end, like WW I & WW II era rent control in NYC which persists to this day.

General revenue funding Social Security would double the national debt. On a dynamic basis, it would produce a debt explosion.

"if voters choose to “sacrifice the rights of other citizens” as James Madison cautioned, they should not expect high net-worth individuals to stay for the inevitable sequel" write Joshua Rauh and Ben Jaros at Liberty Lens. libertylensecon.substack.com/p/californias-…

The United States is entering a fiscal environment where debt service is absorbing an unprecedented share of federal revenue. Twenty cents of every tax dollar is now spent on interest payments. According to recent estimates by Joshua Rauh, this trend will only intensify in the

The CBO’s Numbers Must Be Made Public and Checkable by Joshua Rauh and Benjamin Jaros wsj.com/opinion/the-cb… via Wall Street Journal Opinion

"The CBO’s Numbers Must Be Made Public and Checkable" by @JoshRauh and Benjamin Jaros via The Wall Street Journal wsj.com/opinion/the-cb…

The transparency of the models used by public bodies such as CBO and JCT is essential to enable an open and sound public debate, as Joshua Rauh & Jaros explain. Luciano Capone and I made the same proposal in Italy after the glaring errors made by the General Accounting Office...

Another recent article on CBO transparency from @JoshRauh and myself: "Open the Budget Scoring Black Box" via Civitas Outlook civitasinstitute.org/research/open-…

.Joshua Rauh and Benjamin Jaros in Wall Street Journal Opinion: “[l]awmakers should require both agencies to publish the code, data and documentation behind major estimates, just as academics must.

"At a recent House Budget hearing, Chair Jodey Arrington, paraphrasing Churchill, reminded Director Swagel that 'the price of greatness is accountability.'” Latest installment of "Checking the Scorekeepers" by Joshua Rauh, Ben Jaros, & Daniel Heil. open.substack.com/pub/libertylen…

Cars should have two horns, one for “excuse me, kind friend,” and another for “curse you and your family for generations.”