Daily Clips: March 6, 2017
Americans are confused on climate, but support cutting carbon pollution: Fun fact about the climate—it doesn’t care what we think!
4 Washington state firms interested in building Trump’s border wall: Nope.
Fed is likely to raise this month: Very interesting and very controversial decision.
The myth of the fiscal conservative:
Take boots, for example. [Vimes] earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was … on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles. But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that’d still be keeping his feet dry in ten years’ time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.
A party not ready to govern: Krugman has been so good the last couple of years—I often take his perceptions for granted. Today he delivers another great piece.
But the broader Republican quagmire — the party’s failure so far to make significant progress toward any of its policy promises — isn’t just about Mr. Trump’s inadequacies. The whole party, it turns out, has been faking it for years. Its leaders’ rhetoric was empty; they have no idea how to turn their slogans into actual legislation, because they’ve never bothered to understand how anything important works.
Tweet of the day:
Income gains going to top 1% in
1954-7: 5%
1975-9: 25%
2009-12: 95%https://t.co/qJ7ZBYmd9O pic.twitter.com/vFiCb8tAg5— Conrad Hackett (@conradhackett) March 5, 2017
