Alan Cole
@AlanMCole
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International and Federal Taxes @taxfoundation High Priest of #DBCFT Twitter
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Joined July 2012
Okay, I admit it. I am the audience for this. I am the one who demands 24/7 updates on Alan Dershowitz’s social standing on Martha’s Vineyard. My friend discord monitors every single update on this subject. I mean this completely sincerely.
Alan Dershowitz tells me he’s not planning on going back to the Martha’s Vineyard farmers market tomorrow
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Day five of angry discourse on a one-hit wonder from sixteen years ago: who’s ready?.
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Crazy how two comedies from 2004, neither of them a top 25 box office hit for the year, combine for something like 10 percent of the replies for the whole century thus far. Millennials just love their Anchorman and Mean Girls quotes!.
This makes me wonder, what are the most widely recognizable quotes from 21st century film?.
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UK NGMI.
A block of six one-bedroom flats in Headington Quarry must be demolished for breaching planning permission. The High Court has refused an appeal, ruling the building in Quarry Mews was built higher than permitted and “clashed with the grain of development in Quarry High Street”.
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Rental car companies seem so insanely helpless at their one job. You show up at the airport, reservation in hand, and they’re like “wait really? You wanted a car? Sorry, you totally caught me off guard.”.
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The case for reading (of some kind) also winning the "fun" battle is simply that the information density is higher and some people might value that. I like to read because I can get more done in a 5 minute read than in a 20 minute video.
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A lot of literature defenders are arguing here, and that's fair, but ultimately reading might not win the "fun" battle. It's only winning the "necessary" one. You need it for laws, contracts, documentation. Like in a M&A deal you're not gonna get your due diligence in videos.
My gut feeling is that parents trying to make their kids elite at reading and writing as a backlash against our screen/video world are like teaching their kids the Dewey decimal system, microfiche, driving a stick shift. Kids intuitively know they’re growing up in a video world.
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RT @JohnArnoldFndtn: Chicago Police and Fire pension systems are the worst funded programs in the nation. Yesterday, Gov Pritzker signed a….
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RT @ejenk: We need a total and complete shutdown of elected officials until we can figure out what is going on.
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RT @BeachWW453: The totally groundless firing of Dr. Erika McEntarfer, my successor as Commissioner of Labor Statistics at BLS, sets a dang….
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Today, President Trump called into question the integrity of the Employment Situation report that the BLS released this morning. He accused BLS Commissioner Erika McEntarfer of deliberately reporting...
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RT @DominicJPino: Firing the BLS commissioner is the kind of move that illustrates the danger of Trump not having people around him who wil….
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RT @JosephPolitano: Unquestionably the most dangerous and corrupt attack on the independence of US economic data in American history. Trump….
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RT @TaxNotes: NEW: @AlanMCole of @TaxFoundation discusses the international tax provisions in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act and what may b….
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RT @AlecStapp: When an unstoppable force (environmental review) meets an immovable object (also environmental review): .
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RT @KelseyTuoc: as Erik goes on to outline, this is absolute nonsense pseudoscience. lots of 3 year old really, really enjoy learning to re….
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RT @AlexGodofsky: Someday, hopefully soon, every Ivy league graduating class will look like this. And that's good.
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Yes this is genuinely WTF. You expect the discourse on this subject to be a total wasteland and then *bam,* someone shows up with an insightful application of a seminal econ paper. 10/10.
@TheDimitriT This is actually a really cogent and well-informed take wtf.
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RT @DanFriedman81: Activist Mohsen Mahdawi was a student at Birzeit University in the West Bank who was able to obtain transfer admission t….
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