David Ditch @DavidADitch
Policy analyst covering the federal fisc. Free agent. Fan of struggling causes (limited government & Buffalo Bills). United States Joined August 2011-
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Whatever the value of interest-group mandates, there is no justifiable reason they should be imposed only on gov itself. Getting rid of this double-standard (only union, buy america, environmental, race/sex contracting rules if gov money is involved) will restore state capacity.
The biggest state capacity problem is not proceduralism, it's that many interest-group mandates (Buy America, union deals) are placed ONLY on gov. We should establish a standard of equal treatment of the gov and private sectors. My latest @NationalAffairs nationalaffairs.com/publications/d…
"progressive ideology takes for granted what are in fact precious gifts...—societal wealth, reliable law and order, political rights—and focuses instead on the ways in which these things are imperfectly or unequally realized." thefp.com/p/coleman-hugh…
I’m a bills fan so I had to think about a quarter of a second on this one.
Americans, would you rather? Your NFL team wins the Super Bowl Or USA wins the World Cup
This is an important point : Social Security reform needs to ask what policy problems we're trying to solve. If that problem has been solved, or if we can solve it better today using different means, Social Security reform should do it. /1
As nations grow wealthier, they should cut spending on older people, who can increasingly provide for themselves. The West spent half a century doing the exact opposite. We'll pay the price for this mistake for decades to come.
It’s racing ahead because it is different than Europe—a fact that seems somehow to be lost on the Americans who want America to be more like Europe.
European football fans visiting America are discovering the mass affluence of the country’s suburbs. The wealth enticing holidaymakers troubles European elites. America, once a peer, seems to be racing ahead econ.st/4uKt4ga Illustration: Álvaro Bernis
Schrödinger’s Tax Policy: my new Pigouvian tax will simultaneously raise sufficient revenue for my new programs and create disincentives for all of the behavior I want to stop
what I find most amusing about his new AI socialism bill is that Sanders and many of his supporters also back the idea of a national data center moratorium while at the exact same time claiming that they are going to extract $7 trillion from the AI sector though a 50% tax. If
The universally acknowledged most competent part of the @sfgov bureaucracy is the part operated by a private for-profit contractor.
SFO's private TSA really is the best in the country.
Is there a bigger grift right now than taxpayer-funded “organizing”? Lawmakers have direct control over the laws that drive up housing costs. Instead of changing those laws, they use your money to hire people to tell renters they should blame landlords. The message is that the only way to fix the high costs government causes is for you to want your government to make housing harder to own and operate, and that somehow will make it more affordable for you as a renter. Or better yet, you should just own the building, and somehow you owning it will be cheaper than it is for you now. Also it will improve the quality while also paying the property tax, insurance, and additional utilities. And we all just act like this is normal.
Manhattan Borough President @bradhoylman is hiring a full time organizer to create a borough-wide tenant union, continuing a trend of city government supporting tenant groups. via @patrickspauster: citylimits.org/meet-manhattan…
This makes food more expensive, if anyone thinks that food costs have political salience 🤔
Every time I read about checkoff programs, I get more radicalized. The feds force consumers to pay $1 billion a year into government-backed industry cartels that fund ads, marketing, and industry-favorable research. New from @NTUF @demianbrady: ntu.org/foundation/det…
Orderly Liquidation Authority has an insidious budgetary effect. For any given year it could either cost nothing or untold billions. A hidden corporate welfare benefit.
Why do giant Wall Street banks actively lobby to preserve Dodd-Frank's Title II orderly liquidation authority? Because they know it’s a federal lifeline. Telling the market "don't worry, we'll pump all the money we need into this" just invites a deal-making orgy fest. Stability
Fraud infected the ACA when plans became fully subsidized for people claiming income between 100-150% of the FPL. This led to massive improper enrollment (more than 6M people) and phantom enrollees (3-4M people) annually. paragoninstitute.org/private-health…
NEW PIC: HealthCare.gov enrollment remains far above 2020 levels. The biggest surge is in the 100–150% FPL group, where improper enrollment is concentrated. From 2020 to 2026, roughly 67% of the total enrollment increase came from this income category.
@MichaelWatsonDC Boston: We don’t have enough beer for these Scots 😭 Wisconsin: Hold my beer. Literally.
If a private ambulance company takes a Medi-Cal patient to the hospital it gets $339 taxpayer dollars. But if a California fire district handles the same transfer, it expects $1600 (even if it subcontracts to the private provider). theblaze.com/columns/opinio…
@judgeglock Moving janitorial services in-house is about building government union capacity. It functionally REDUCES state capacity!
Everyone knows the national debt is insane, but too many people think it's a future problem. It's actually a right now problem, especially for the poor: - Inflation hurts their purchasing power most - Rising interest rates put cars and homes further out of reach - slower growth means fewer jobs and less wage growth - government's interest payments on the debt crowd out other programs people rely on Opponents of federal budget reform fear-monger, but the reality is that failure to act is a policy choice: a choice to hurt lower-income Americans.
Everyone loves Social Security, until you ask them to pay for it. Everyone loves fighting climate change, until you ask them to pay for it. Everyone loves ...
The correct interpretation of this chart: everyone loves Social Security. So much so that a clear majority of ppl *in their 30s will pay higher taxes today to get it when they retire* Literally this chart says forget reforming SS, it’s the only thing EVERYONE loves
@AlanMCole A couple months ago I was discussing a line from Austin Powers 2 with a group of young staffers and realized it came out before any of them were born.
Welfare reforms are pro-affordability when discussed with any degree of intellectual honesty. Describing the mild work requirements and eligibility checks in OBBB as "cuts" is always a tell.
The cost of just reversing various Trump anti-affordability policies is in the trillions of dollars. Indeed, reversing Trump's SNAP and health care cuts alone costs just about as much as Build Back Better raised in revenue over the same budget window.
It’s sad that fiscal/budget policy polling *with trade-offs* is an outlier. Glad Cato’s @emilyekins is such a pro.
At first glance, most Americans say they would support increasing Social Security taxes to avoid benefit cuts for seniors. Yet attitudes shift dramatically when discussing tax increases in concrete dollars and cents. 77% would oppose raising their own taxes even $1,300 per
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