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RT by @MattBruenig: 🇩🇴 @THEKIDMERO x Zohran in Washington Heights 🇩🇴

https://rss.xcancel.com/ZohranKMamdani/status/1936430288038478192#m

Published: June 21, 2025 14:25

🇩🇴 @THEKIDMERO x Zohran in Washington Heights 🇩🇴

R to @MattBruenig: It's a bit tough to respond to these claims because nobody can even begin to explain why they think this is true. Maybe a counter-example would work. DC is not inside of any state and yet it extended free child care to ages 3 and 4. Does that work?

https://rss.xcancel.com/MattBruenig/status/1936103236248723722#m

Published: June 20, 2025 16:45

It's a bit tough to respond to these claims because nobody can even begin to explain why they think this is true. Maybe a counter-example would work. DC is not inside of any state and yet it extended free child care to ages 3 and 4. Does that work?

Been interested in child care policy for over ten years and this is the first time I have ever seen anyone say that it is not possible for a municipality (a rich, big one at that) to finance its own child care program. It also is not true. Like factually it is wrong.

https://rss.xcancel.com/MattBruenig/status/1936102238918721557#m

Published: June 20, 2025 16:41

Been interested in child care policy for over ten years and this is the first time I have ever seen anyone say that it is not possible for a municipality (a rich, big one at that) to finance its own child care program. It also is not true. Like factually…

RT by @MattBruenig: If we had waited on Washington, almost 500,000 NYC kids would not have gotten Pre-K and 3-K in the last 10 years.

https://rss.xcancel.com/BilldeBlasio/status/1936071443655106949#m

Published: June 20, 2025 14:39

If we had waited on Washington, almost 500,000 NYC kids would not have gotten Pre-K and 3-K in the last 10 years. rss.xcancel.com/AnnieLowrey/status/1934666970601017588#m

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https://rss.xcancel.com/MattBruenig/status/1935761960429122027#m

Published: June 19, 2025 18:09

R to @MattBruenig: Do people actually think through the underlying logic of policy arguments, or is it just all a kind of impressionistic cloud, a performance of precision in the absence of any actual conceptual rigor?

https://rss.xcancel.com/MattBruenig/status/1935750725709050230#m

Published: June 19, 2025 17:25

Do people actually think through the underlying logic of policy arguments, or is it just all a kind of impressionistic cloud, a performance of precision in the absence of any actual conceptual rigor?

R to @MattBruenig: Did they not just see NYC extend free child care to ages 4 and 3? Do they not see the whole country has free child care for ages 5 through 18? Is population the issue? NYC is bigger than quite a few countries.

https://rss.xcancel.com/MattBruenig/status/1935750522520150113#m

Published: June 19, 2025 17:24

Did they not just see NYC extend free child care to ages 4 and 3? Do they not see the whole country has free child care for ages 5 through 18? Is population the issue? NYC is bigger than quite a few countries.

I wonder how the brains of people who say this work. What magic do they think is contained in these different levels of government, which don't even have to exist. Is the idea that NYC is a poor geography that needs external transfers from richer geographies to make it work?

https://rss.xcancel.com/MattBruenig/status/1935749993354129481#m

Published: June 19, 2025 17:22

I wonder how the brains of people who say this work. What magic do they think is contained in these different levels of government, which don't even have to exist. Is the idea that NYC is a poor geography that needs external transfers from richer…

RT by @MattBruenig: This is actually a very reasonable way to approach public enterprises. Saying that SOEs should be allowed to fail if they don't work (and presumably subject to hard budget constraints) answers one of the most salient criticisms of these sorts of efforts.

https://rss.xcancel.com/sunraysunray/status/1935688621966700666#m

Published: June 19, 2025 13:18

This is actually a very reasonable way to approach public enterprises. Saying that SOEs should be allowed to fail if they don't work (and presumably subject to hard budget constraints) answers one of the most salient criticisms of these sorts of efforts.…

RT by @MattBruenig: I'd like to see it as a federal program, but it is obviously not impractical as a municipal one. Indeed, the municipalities already run very large free child care programs for ages 5 through 18. In some places it goes down to age 4 (NYC) and even age 3 (DC).

https://rss.xcancel.com/MattBruenig/status/1935676188162146807#m

Published: June 19, 2025 12:29

I'd like to see it as a federal program, but it is obviously not impractical as a municipal one. Indeed, the municipalities already run very large free child care programs for ages 5 through 18. In some places it goes down to age 4 (NYC) and even age 3…

RT by @MattBruenig: Charismatic like Obama. Articulate and good in interviews like mayor Pete. Good with personal interactions like Clinton. And hyper focused on popular bread and butter cost of living issues to the exclusion of almost everything else.

https://rss.xcancel.com/MattBruenig/status/1935514247246606515#m

Published: June 19, 2025 01:45

Charismatic like Obama. Articulate and good in interviews like mayor Pete. Good with personal interactions like Clinton. And hyper focused on popular bread and butter cost of living issues to the exclusion of almost everything else.

RT by @MattBruenig: In this case, we are being treated to a truly fascinating two-step where people are saying Mamdani's popularity is alarming because the policies he want are bad. Then when in response to pointing out they aren't bad, we are told they aren't popular. Ok well then he'll lose.

https://rss.xcancel.com/MattBruenig/status/1935348874169798923#m

Published: June 18, 2025 14:48

In this case, we are being treated to a truly fascinating two-step where people are saying Mamdani's popularity is alarming because the policies he want are bad. Then when in response to pointing out they aren't bad, we are told they aren't popular. Ok…

RT by @MattBruenig: Similar proposals exist for free pre-k (replacing current fee-funded pre-k with tax-funded pre-k) and single payer health care (replacing fees with tax)

https://rss.xcancel.com/MattBruenig/status/1935106080876503549#m

Published: June 17, 2025 22:43

Similar proposals exist for free pre-k (replacing current fee-funded pre-k with tax-funded pre-k) and single payer health care (replacing fees with tax)

RT by @MattBruenig: That's not a good argument though. After all, capitalist America mostly does not charge fares for bus riding (due to the school bus system)

https://rss.xcancel.com/MattBruenig/status/1935071028046340560#m

Published: June 17, 2025 20:24

That's not a good argument though. After all, capitalist America mostly does not charge fares for bus riding (due to the school bus system)

RT by @MattBruenig: why is it better? also the largest bus system in the country, the school bus system which reportedly runs more passenger-miles the all urban bus systems combined, enjoys the exact opposite consensus about fares

https://xcancel.com/MattBruenig/status/1934713115771379935#m

Published: June 16, 2025 20:42

why is it better? also the largest bus system in the country, the school bus system which reportedly runs more passenger-miles the all urban bus systems combined, enjoys the exact opposite consensus about fares

RT by @MattBruenig: For a lot of people on the center, they engage politics expressively. They don't ask themselves what are the practical stakes of one candidate over another and instead use elections to express things about their own opinions and identities.

https://xcancel.com/MattBruenig/status/1934682827142123591#m

Published: June 16, 2025 18:41

For a lot of people on the center, they engage politics expressively. They don't ask themselves what are the practical stakes of one candidate over another and instead use elections to express things about their own opinions and identities.

The sort of election-time derangement that you usually only see around presidential elections is kicking off right now. Just be careful. The reasons the args are starting to rapidly degrade in quality is because the brains are getting really worked up.

https://xcancel.com/MattBruenig/status/1934680209300836411#m

Published: June 16, 2025 18:31

The sort of election-time derangement that you usually only see around presidential elections is kicking off right now. Just be careful. The reasons the args are starting to rapidly degrade in quality is because the brains are getting really worked up.…

RT by @MattBruenig: I've been through this before. Back in the day Kevin Drum once wrote a post that suggested that funding our health care system with private insurance (fares) made it so that we could tax more. But it does not. https://www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2019/03/24/single-payer-myths-crowding-out-other-government-spending/

https://xcancel.com/MattBruenig/status/1934613771772703136#m

Published: June 16, 2025 14:07

I've been through this before. Back in the day Kevin Drum once wrote a post that suggested that funding our health care system with private insurance (fares) made it so that we could tax more. But it does not. peoplespolicyproject.org/201…