Brad Polumbo 🇺🇸⚽️ 🏳️🌈
Opinion Editor, Foundation for Economic Education (@feeonline) | Contributor @DCExaminer | Senior Contributor @yvadv | Views My Own |
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Government Should Address the Monopolies It Created Before Tackling Big Tech | Nicholas Anthony
If the government has a monopoly itch to scratch, maybe they should start by taking a closer look at the ones they themselves have created. The list is certainly long.
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"There are countless examples where high prices and poor service have been built on a foundation of government protection."
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What Democrats and Republicans get wrong about Big Tech
Both parties’ leaders feel comfortable bashing the industry. The problem is that all of this antagonism is completely misplaced.
'Breonna's Law' signed in Virginia, the third state to prohibit no-knock search warrants
The move toward more no-knock bans was sparked by the March death of Breonna Taylor, who was fatally shot by police.
Trump’s Trade War Failed to Restore Manufacturing Jobs, New Analysis Shows | Brad Polumbo
Many Americans of good faith might be earnestly surprised by how tariffs have failed to restore the manufacturing sector. But the basic rules of economics predicted this outcome all along.
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The tariffs helped some manufacturers by hurting others, for a net loss.
That's NOT #AmericaFirst.
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Brad Polumbo 🇺🇸⚽️ 🏳️🌈
Trump called himself a "tariff man" and promised to restore the US manufacturing sector with his trade war.
New data shows it failed. (In fact, one graph alone proves manufacturing hasn't recovered at all.)
I explain for @feeonline ⤵️
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Brad Polumbo 🇺🇸⚽️ 🏳️🌈
Many Americans of good faith might be earnestly surprised by how Trump's tariffs have failed to restore the manufacturing sector.
But the basic rules of economics predicted this outcome all along.
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How to Make Health Care Affordable Again
Prices are out of control because almost all costs are paid by someone other than the actual consumer, who rarely even has knowledge of the price.
There are ways to change this.
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"Regardless of whether one believes that affordable health care is a right, it is clear that affordability and degree of government intervention are negatively correlated."
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📜 ACB makes it official, pandemic fatigue on the rise, and how to preserve the Republic
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Brad Polumbo 🇺🇸⚽️ 🏳️🌈
New @feeonline newsletter: 📜 ACB makes it official, pandemic fatigue on the rise, and how to preserve the Republic
🔗: go.fee.org/webmail/808113… pic.twitter.com/vWT1dDuuNT
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Breaking Boundaries with Brad Polumbo: Sen. Rand Paul: Voting for Amy Coney Barrett, 2020, Afghanistan & Why Mayo Sucks on Apple Podcasts
Show Breaking Boundaries with Brad Polumbo, Ep Sen. Rand Paul: Voting for Amy Coney Barrett, 2020, Afghanistan & Why Mayo Sucks - Oct 24, 2020
Why Responding to the COVID Poverty Spike With More Welfare is Cruel, Not Generous | Brad Polumbo
Eight million people have fallen into poverty since May, prompting calls for more welfare intervention. Trapping more people in a state of government dependency isn’t generous—and it isn’t sustainable. It’s cruel.
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Trapping more people in a state of government dependency isn’t generous—and it isn’t sustainable. It’s cruel.
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Progressive politicians are falsely blaming the GOP and insufficient welfare spending for the 8 million people who have fallen into poverty since May.
Reality reveals the opposite.
New from me for @feeonline ⤵️
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From @BLeeForCongress to @EdMarkey, top progressive politicians are falsely blaming the lack of welfare for poverty increases that were really driven by lockdowns.
Me via @feeonline ⤵️
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The Only Middle Finger Available | National Review
If Trump wins, it will be as a gigantic rude gesture to the cultural Left.
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Brad Polumbo 🇺🇸⚽️ 🏳️🌈
One very interesting thing after reading this @RichLowry piece is that he's seemingly explaining a phenomenon when critics have overwhelmingly reacted as if he is endorsing that phenomenon. In the article he very clear does not.
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Senate Votes to Confirm Amy Coney Barrett to Supreme Court | National Review
The final tally was 52-48 with almost every Republican senator voting in favor of confirmation.
End of the Office: The Quiet, Grinding Loneliness of Working From Home
Before Covid-19, many of us thought remote working sounded blissful. Now, employees across the world long for chats by the coffee machine and the whirr of printers.
The Lincoln Project Isn’t Helping Anyone but Themselves
By adopting Trump’s tactics and disposition and rejecting the policy positions that led skeptical voters to Trump in the first place, they’ve surrendered the moral high ground.
Based, Episode 1 - BASED with Hannah Cox
Join libertarian-conservative Hannah Cox for the first episode in her new series, Based. In episode 1, Hannah explores the concept of democratic socialism and digs into the history, politics, and economics of the Scandinavian countries that American...
BASED with Hannah Cox: Democratic Socialism is Just Socialism on Apple Podcasts
Show BASED with Hannah Cox, Ep Democratic Socialism is Just Socialism - Oct 26, 2020
Hot mic catches Kamala Harris asking what city she's in before addressing crowd
Vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris was captured in a hot mic moment asking someone nearby what city she was in before addressing a crowd.
Amy Coney Barrett’s Rise Is a Threat to Families Like Mine
Many of us thought gays and lesbians had won the marriage battle. Maybe not.
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I feel bad for people like this who have genuinely fallen for the media scaremongering and worry themselves sick over things that absolutely will not happen.
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Stop Calling Famous Composers by Their Last Names
“Fullnaming” all artists, regardless of background or tradition, is the only path to social justice in classical music.
$19 Billion Wasted in Failed Afghanistan Nation-Building Efforts, Report Shows | Brad Polumbo
Taxpayers are right to be outraged by the endemic waste and fraud plaguing our ongoing interventions in Afghanistan. But as Milton Friedman once wisely explained, we’d be foolish to think that other government programs are any more responsible with...
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$19 Billion Wasted in Failed Afghanistan Nation-Building Efforts, Report Shows
I explain the findings—and why they shouldn't be surprising.
New from me for @feeonline ⤵️ 🌍
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"Why are we even spending US taxpayer money to build stadiums and utilities in another country in the first place? And why is so much of it being so woefully wasted and abused?"
CC @realDonaldTrump @mattgaetz @RandPaul @SenMikeLee
#BringThemHome
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Brad Polumbo 🇺🇸⚽️ 🏳️🌈
While taxpayers are right to be outraged by the endemic waste and fraud plaguing our ongoing interventions in Afghanistan, we’d be foolish to think that other government programs are any more responsible with our money.
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Senator Hirono’s Double Standard | National Review
Last week, the Hawaii senator condemned Amy Coney Barrett for saying ‘sexual preference,’ but won’t call on Joe Biden to apologize for using the same term in May 2020.