Economist, Political Scientist, SHRM-CP, Criminal Justice reformer. University of Delaware, University of Arizona & CSUSB Alum. Opinions are my own. 🐻👇🌵
Arizona, USA
Joined June 2009
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ECON ELLIOTT retweeted
NEW AD: Turning Point PAC launched a new ad exposing the extreme disaster that is Katie Hobbs.
Vote. Her. Out.
From the University of No Duh!
"American progressives continue to advocate for a Medicare for All system, pointing to the Old Continent as a utopian model of universal access to health care. However, in Europe, systems in which the state functions as both direct provider and single-payer monopolist continue to fail.
Contrary to the narrative pushed by certain political circles, Europeans are increasingly adopting private health insurance."
- @claudiashandi
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ECON ELLIOTT retweeted
Politicians are constantly telling us the middle class is disappearing. Is it true?
Actually, the real news is better than you might think. And, in some ways, worse. Our new video explains.
Americans are feeling the pinch of EXCESSIVE US spending from COVID.😫
23% reduction in purchasing power since 2019.😳
The only good news it, it could be worse!
Stop asking the government for 'help'!
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#WhySmartPeopleBelieveLies
The lonelier and more isolated people feel, the more susceptible they are to ideologies that promise meaning and community: #Socialism #Communism #Environmentalism #Woke #Transgender
Individual identity is lost. @BuckSexton
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📈*US Billionaire Economic Contributions*
📊 1. Corp. Revenues: $1.11 trillion from top 500 billionaire-owned firms.
💼 2. Employment: 3.64 million Americans FT @Walmart @amazon @HomeDepot & @Meta .
📈 3. Federal Income Tax Paid: $109 billion
📝 4. Charitable Giving: $20 billion
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Have you seen our $40 TRILLION Debt?
Here's how to look at it in a hilarious, R-Rated take from @reason BTW, this is a year old, when it was ONLY $36 T - and still, Congress has done NOTHING!
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ECON ELLIOTT retweeted
This is what they HAVE BEEN DOING for 50 years!
This IS their 'help'!🫣🤬🤦♀️
We are now $40 TRILLION in debt due to:
Social Security 22%
Medicare 15%
Interest 15%
Health, incl. Medicaid 13%
Defense 13%
Welfare (income security) 10%
Veterans 6%
Transportation 2%
Education 1%.
A long and sordid list of plagiarism by black academics. Are there more white academics who've also been accused of plagiarism in recent years?🤨
Is this a #DEI problem, or a wide-scale cheating problem by students who become professors? @dailywire
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ECON ELLIOTT retweeted
The essence of American conservatism comes down to two basic concepts:
1. A limited central government that can only exercise certain clearly enumerated powers.
2. A zealous commitment to preserving the individual liberties listed in the Bill of Rights.
Within these boundaries there are many different forms of conservatism, but the second you step outside the boundaries of these two principles, you cease to be a “conservative,” no matter what you may call yourself.
ECON ELLIOTT retweeted
No one can be a “slave’” to “Capital interest” because no one in the US is compelled to engage capital interest.
This is because “capitalism” is not a sociopolitical system, it is a theory regarding the flow of money in a free market system.
As communist China proves, capitalism can be overlain on any sociopolitical system like communism or islam.
The underlying philosphical elements of the sociopolitical system in the US are independent of the economic engine that powers it.
The conservative liberty interest in limited government and maximalized individual freedom has no inherent economic presumptions.
The economic system is the product of a free market itself created by liberty and limited government.
Antagonistic politics can produce rhetorical victories forever without ever producing a civilizational victory, because civilization is precisely what you share with the people you defeated.
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The state with the HIGHEST minimum wage tips the LEAST (In CA, tipped workers are required to be paid minimum wage, not less), and a state that has no Sales Taxes tips the HIGHEST (DE)?
Interesting...it's like policy decisions have unintended consequences.
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The US national debt keeps growing by trillions, Congress has no plan beyond borrowing more, and Washington keeps proving it will continue to weaponize the dollar.
Central banks holding dollars are holding the liability of a gov that is overextended and unpredictable.
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#Incentives Matter!
"All cooperative schemes, which provide equal remuneration to the skilled and industrious and the ignorant and idle, must work their own downfall."
-Robert Dale Owen
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You'd have to be a complete #idiot 🤯 to be sitting in your AC, electrified room, with a fat belly, on your computer/smartphone with wifi internet to want to return to feudalism ‼️🤦🏻♀️
You want to 'correct' this 'wealth problem'?🤔🤨
Oh, wait. .... smh. 🤦🏻♀️
The accumulation of wealth already is a system failure and shoud be corrected. Yes. Passive income should not be so easy.
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🌍 The tote trap 🧵👜🛒 vs. #Plastic:
Cotton takes 5k gallons of water per lb to grow. Shipping them burns 80x more fuel than plastic‼️
You must reuse a cloth bag 150x to = the impact of 1 #SUPB. 🤯
#ClimateChange #GoGreen
Data via @feeonline tinyurl.com/2s36v64d – at Albania
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