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Oh helllll yeah
In 1964, LBJ got 61.05% of the popular vote - the highest since the early 1800s.

I want Biden to do even better than that.
I mean, if you vote for Trump you're just pissing in the pool at this point. There's literally no other reason other than to give America the middle finger.
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1/OK, I didn't want to have to do this thread, because it's inevitably going to make a lot of people angry. But lots of people are asking, so I guess I have to:

Protest Cost-Benefit Analysis
2/A number of public health experts signed an open letter, supporting the current wave of protests against police brutality and racism, while differentiating them from the earlier reopening protests.

slate.com/technology/202…
3/Predictably, these public health experts have taken some flak for making this call.

So I guess it falls to economists (or former economists like me) to do the grim Trolley-Problem math of evaluating the public health experts' decision in terms of lives lost/saved.
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Looking at the list of proposed police reforms, it seems to me that ending qualified immunity and banning police use of military-style gear are the two most obvious moves, and banning police unions is also probably the right move. Everything else seems like small potatoes...
And this seems like an essential piece of ending qualified immunity.

TBH, once you get rid of legal immunity, union power, and military tech, I think the rest of the problems will generally sort themselves out at the city level. Cities and police departments will make the reforms necessary to prevent getting sued and fired.
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In today's @bopinion post I discuss whether the police should be de-funded.

bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…
On one hand, spending on police has remained very constant as a percent of state and local spending over the decades, always between 4.3% and 5%.

So it's not like the cops are devouring ever more of city budgets.
BUT, those state and local budgets have gone up and up. And police spending has risen right along with them. Why??
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