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27 Apr, 4 tweets, 1 min read
1) Erickson is clearly condemning that view
2) are we now saying that CPS are kidnappers?
If people want to argue CPS is too powerful, out of control, and needs to be reigned in, I’m here for that: but that’s... uh... folks that’s not just not a liberal talking point that’s like super-duper social conservative red meat material right there.
Once you’re at “Calling CPS on someone is aiding and abetting kidnapping” you’re at like ultra-trad politics of the family. Not what the OP intends.
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29 Apr
Folks I am SO EXCITED for a report that I wrote for @AEI to be published TODAY! This has been a labor of love for over a year, and it is finally AVAILABLE FOR YOUR READING. aei.org/research-produ…
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29 Apr
TIL that it is legal for fraternal societies to discriminate in providing services based on membership status in the group (so for example a Christian mutual-insurance benefit society can limit membership to Christians)...

but it's ILLEGAL to limit EMPLOYMENT to members!
It is apparently actually the law that you can make a "KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS ONLY" rule for selling your products, but it's illegal to limit *employment and leadership* to that *exact same class*.
Religious organizations have the right to discriminate in religious roles, but it's insane to me that it's a crime for overtly religious organizations with "secular" functions to *ask if the person actively opposes the religion*
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29 Apr
The Federal government pays a considerable share of public education costs and declines to offer those funds to support students going to non-public schools (which often reopened!) so I think it’s wrong to say the Federal government isn’t involved.
I think the argument here is not that JUST FEDERALISM will do the trick but that federalism is PART OF a push for a more pluralist government at all levels. So you’d need the Feds to say “our education dollars will go to whatever schools states deem fit to permit”
The reality is that schools which were opening were broadly less likely to be receiving Federal funds, while schools staying closed were getting Federal funds. That the federal government did not issue an explicit policy doesn’t make that imbalance irrelevant!
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29 Apr
The reason we tax the things we tax and in practice the whole political debate about tax policy is simply the intersection of ability to pay by the payer and ability to enforce by the state and that’s why all the imputed rent or taxing home production stuff is idiotic.
Economists like to say tax policy is based on idk efficiency or something but there isn’t really any evidence that’s actually what it’s based on... and also no compelling argument that it ethically *should* be based on this
But if you think it’s somehow “unfair” to tax a worker who gets paid to do something but not to tax someone who does that thing in their own home idk maybe you don’t understand the ethical intuition behind taxes
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28 Apr
How often to Republicans complain about facially neutral policies *specifically by pointing out* that they help black people?

I don’t *think* that’s common. Indeed it is the rarity of this phenomena that gives rise to the idea of “dog-whistling”!
Republicans may often oppose facially neutral policies on the grounds that they help “undeserving” people, generally meaning “nonworking,” and we know more racial diversity causes assessments of deserving ness to change.
Ie when you know the nonworking are racially other, you’re less likely to support helping them

But that’s not the point made above. The claim made above is Democrats must use explicitly racialized arguments because Republicans do so.
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28 Apr
Glad to be in @SCMPNews today talking about the recent report Laurie DeRose and I published for @FamStudies :

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But it has a price.
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