Thread by @DmitryOpines

The media is very good at demanding progressives explain in detail how they'd fund their election promises.

It needs to become equally good at demanding conservatives explain in detail the regulations they'll cut in promising to "kick-start the innovation economy."

There's a media narrative that government funds are finite and impossible to sensibly generate, but there's a mountain of unspecified regulation holding business back that can be slashed with no side effects or trade-offs.

Every election in every western democracy it's the same story.

Conservatives promise to generate funds by "slashing waste" and growth by "eliminating job killing regulations."

Then they get into power, double the deficit and cut environmental regulations people actually like.