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Micah
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Law Student. Co-Founder @TheSirenHQ. Policy Advisor @AdamMocklerr. 🇺🇸🏗️
Jul 30 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Texas Democrats get 45% of the vote.

Under the GOP’s new gerrymandered map, they’d get just 21% of the seats.

This is not democracy. Image Oklahoma Democrats get 33% of the vote, they receive 0% of the seats: Image
Jun 19 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
We have it on video.

espn.com/mlb/story/_/id…Image
Jun 16 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
This tweet by Viva Frei is a great summary of all the misinformation Republicans have been spreading on the Minnesota Shooting.

Here is a breakdown of each claim, and why it’s wrong. 🧵 Image For starters, this post by Viva is meant to cast doubt on Vance being a Trump supporter.

Conveniently, it omits that:

- Public records show that Vance has been registered to vote as a Republican over the course of decades, most recently in 2022.

- He is an evangelical christian who we have on recording preaching about how God can cure homosexuality.

- His confirmed roommate, who he shared texts with right before the shooting, says he voted for Trump and was pro life.Image
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Jun 14 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
SO THE SHOOTER IMPERSONATED A POLICE OFFICER, KILLED TWO DEMOCRATS, HAD A HIT LIST FULL OF OTHER HIGHER-PROFILE DEMOCRATS — INCLUDING TIM WALZ — AND WAS ALSO PLANNING TO TARGET ABORTION PROVIDERS AND PRO-CHOICE ADVOCATES...

AND YOU WANT US TO BELIEVE HE WAS PRO-DEMOCRAT??? abcnews.go.com/US/2-minnesota…Image
Dec 24, 2024 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Lex Fridman conducted a lengthy interview with Pro-Ukraine Journalist @IAPonomarenko.

He never posted it.

When asked about it by @nastasiaKlimash, he promptly blocked her.

Now he is requesting that Zelensky speak Russian in their interview (terrible optics).

This is… weird. Image I don't want to believe that @lexfridman is being partial here. But this is a strange combination of decisions. Image
Dec 3, 2024 • 17 tweets • 3 min read
There is a testable claim being made here that what the American people secretly want is aggressively higher taxes, more regulations, and dramatically increased subsidies.

And it seems like everytime we test that claim it’s false. 🧵 Voters on average put themselves well to the right of Kamala. This past election they punished Democrats most in deep blue areas, and did pretty much nothing to reward the most progressive elements of the Biden agenda or state Democrats.
Jan 21, 2024 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
It’s true Social Security is on track for having significant and continual benefit cuts in order to remain solvent.

This will hurt low-income retirees the most.

This isn’t Inevitable.

Here are some ways we can keep Social Security strong for generations to comes.🧵 Image 1. Reforming 401ks, Roth IRAs, and IRAs.

These retirement savings tax incentives supercharge inequality by subsidizing those with high incomes tremendously while only providing meager benefits to working and middle-income people.

All the worse, they cost us hundreds of billions of dollars a year. (more than 1/5th of Social Securities annual cost).

They also do not have a significant impact on retirement savings.

Reforms that limit these tax incentives would free up revenue that could be dedicated to strengthening Social Security.Image
May 15, 2023 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
America doesn’t need to hike tax rates so much as it needs to expand many tax bases. The income tax is chocked full of holes that needs to be filled. Same thing is true for the payroll tax and the sales tax. If all these were applied to the full base, we would be awash in cash. The income tax and payroll tax should apply to all labor compensation one receives in a year, less a deduction for investment in formal education.
May 15, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
We should switch medicaid and medicare to reference pricing. Instead of each program having a set reimbursement schedule and networks determined by whether providers are willing or not to accept that reimbursement level, we should have a set amount of money the program will cover with the remainder in the hands of individuals.
May 15, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Uncap the payroll tax, expand the base to hit all compensation, and switch to a flat benefit

Not only would the problem be solved, but you would have surplus revenue to be used for other social spending. The idea of divesting social security money from government bonds and devoting it to the private market has been around the Clinton days. It would trade a higher ROI for higher interest rates.
May 15, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
The “freedom” of a person that gets cancer to die or go bankrupt because they are not adequately insured I don’t know why even the more reasonable folks on the libertarian side stake out this position. Some intervention in healthcare to ensure universal coverage and fair treatment of people with preexisting conditions is essential.
May 14, 2023 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
The easiest way to turn a property tax into a land tax is to allow all investments in land to be deductible from the assessed value, and reduce this deduction over time at rate of their depreciation.

To illustrate this, let’s use an example… Suppose that you have a piece of land that is worth 500k at tax time. This property has been developed in the year of assessment, with it’s owner investing 300k in constructing a building on top of it.

In this year the taxable value (land value) would be 500k - 300k
May 14, 2023 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
Do you support paid family and/or medical leave? (2 part poll) If so, what kind?
May 13, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
What is your favorite form of intra city transit? The correct ranking:

1. Heavy Rail
2.
 3.
 4. Bus
4.5 Light Rail
5.
 6. Street Car
Jan 19, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
The definitive Halo ranking:
1. Halo 3
2. Halo 2
3. Halo CE
4. Halo Infinite
5. Halo Reach
6. Halo 3 ODST
7. Halo 4
8. Halo 5 Only one of these is not a good game from a campaign standpoint, Halo 5
Jan 18, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
The US has around the 5th highest (Purchasing Power Parity adjusted) median income in the world. To criticize it on the basis that things are “unaffordable” is frankly bizarre, considering it is vastly superior, in this regard, to nearly the entire world. worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankin…
Jan 18, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Republicans love to hold on to the notion that they are the “party of liberty,” while also making a key part of their platform that 10s of millions of people should have their life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness utterly disregarded for the crime of wanting to live in America. It’s easy to advocate destroying the lives of millions when you think of it as only in the abstract. It’s entirely another thing to do so when you view each person as a real, living, breathing individual with hopes, dreams, and relationships like anyone else.