NEW REPORT: We project the Ways and Means Committee's SALT cap ($30K, phasing down to $10K at high incomes) would: - Raise $937B over 2026-35 - Reduce net income for 5.2% of US residents - Lower the Gini index of income inequality by 0.4% Full report in next post:

Isn’t it great that giving ourselves nice things in the short term is what we need to do to have nice things in the long term! Awesome

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Glad UK society is tackling the urgent problem of “NHS productivity is too high”

PolicyEngine replicates the government's cost estimate for the WFA means-test reform (1.3bn vs 1.25bn) policyengine.org/uk/policy?focu…

According to PolicyEngine UK, extending the WFA to all pensioners with under £35k in income would benefit more of the most wealthy households than less rich ones.

But it's just so much easier to dismiss the entire world as "neoliberal" and pretend we can magically raise huge amounts of tax from Other People. You get way more likes on social media that way. But you won't ever deliver any change.

I think some people are confusing public investment with public social safety spending

you will not believe how much of our cheese we import. can't quite sum up into a word how bad it is

As a young reporter in Northern Ireland I twice saw kids squirming on the ground in agony after being shot in the knees by the IRA. The memory still haunts me. Kneecap should be free to sing whatever they want - but why do they choose to celebrate such a vicious form of torture?

Really shocking behaviour. Summarily dismissing board of trustees and chief executive. The Trust has been one of the very few funders of quality, impartial, policy focused social science research. thetimes.com/article/7d695e…

The dot is a "guiding hand for life". For God's sake, do not use the dot in a decorative way. Do NOT overuse the dot.

If “negotiation” is so wide a definition it includes dropping two nukes on a country within a week then I’m not sure it has much linguistic value

Guy who hasn’t discovered positive sum games

When we cut 30 affordable homes to protect a distant view, we’re not preserving heritage, we’re preserving a housing crisis 👇

thanks Oxford City Council but this is a bit silly, can you come collect the overflowing bins pls

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Agree hugely on reducing costs for talented people to come to the UK. But unless I am missing something this analysis seems really odd to include the cost of health insurance in the UK but exclude it in other countries, which often require it.