Tony Annett
@tonyannett
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Economist. Social democrat. Author of “Cathonomics: How Catholic Tradition Can Create a More Just Economy.”
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Joined July 2010
Bookends. My book Cathonomics was published at the start of the year. And this new book, Ethics in Action, was published at the end of the year. I’m the author of one, and an editor of another.
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Dealing with AI will mean taxing wealth - quite heavily. But this seems impossible now. The US has gone full oligarchy in its tax system. And other countries that introduced wealth taxes faced capital flight. It’s a problem that must be fixed.
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Except you’re doing the exact opposite of what God would want. Almost as if some other supernatural force is in your camp….
One year ago today — July 13, 2024. Butler, Pennsylvania. “I WAS SAVED BY GOD TO MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN. I BELIEVE THAT.” –President Donald J. Trump
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Adolf Hitler survived 42 assassination attempts. Two in particular came very close to killing him. Was he also saved “by the grace of God”?.
One year ago today, an assassin opened fire on President Donald J. Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania. The bullet hit—but by the grace of God, he stood up. Bloodied. Unbowed. And he fought harder. July 13th is a reminder: we fight, we win, AND WE NEVER SURRENDER. 🇺🇸
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You’re a weak man, Marco.
One year ago, President Trump survived an assassination attempt in Butler, PA. He’ll never stop fighting to put Americans first.
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Replaying the tired old attacks. Get some new material.
America-hating billionaire George Soros funneled nearly $40 million to groups behind Marxist-Islamist Zohran Mamdani.
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RT @MattPolProf: Sure. Let's talk European history. Is anyone really going to argue that the UK under Clement Atlee and (old) Labour was an….
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This is the funniest thing you will read today. Trump’s “populism” entails the biggest upward redistribution of income in history. Meanwhile Bernie wants to give people healthcare.
There are two populisms in America: The Right’s is built on a love of America and the belief that work provides dignity. The Left’s is built on the view that America is not worth fighting for and work is humiliating and exploitative and should be done by illegal migrants.
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90 million loves saved and Rubio wants to flush this down the toilet. This is by far and away the most evil action of the Trump regime.
Two weeks ago, Marco Rubio said USAID “has little to show since the end of the Cold War.”. Days earlier, a Lancet study estimated that USAID global health programs have saved 90 million lives—not since 1991, but since just 2001.
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Right. Ditch the culture war crap so beloved by the Brahmin Left and focus squarely on material concerns.
Yep. Democratic leaders have a choice: they can build the party by embracing left populists like Mamdani who are confronting these problems, or keep fighting them and watch as young people flock to right populists who are confronting these problems.
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I don’t have a problem with Zionism, which began as a socialist movement. I have a problem with the apartheid imposed on Palestinians in the occupied territory.
Zionism is the civil rights movement for Jews. Get over it.
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RT @RMcGreevy1301: This is historically illiterate garbage. Apparently the Battle of the Boyne and the Glorious Revolution was a triumph of….
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RT @holland_tom: Tomorrow’s episode of @theresthistory is on THE INVENTION OF THE BLOOD LIBEL
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Capital wants labor defenestrated.
Microsoft laid off 9,000 people last week. The Government is not a jobs program.
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Agreed. You don’t give in to a bully. You punch him in the nose.
It’s hard to see how the EU can avoid hitting back hard against this bold move by President Trump. It cannot allow itself to be pushed around like this.
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RT @JohnOBrennan2: This is exactly the way Dachau (the first Nazi concentration camp) was in 1934. Do I need to point out how the camp traj….
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All true, but real wages managed to rise (due to a tight labor market) after two decades of stagnation.
Bill Clinton gutted welfare and criminalized the poor, all while funneling more money into the carceral state.
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In the US, the public sector unionization rate is 32 percent. Further private sector, it’s only 6 percent. The response of the right to this is interesting. Instead of pushing to extend protections into the private sectors, they demand government workers lose their protection.
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The right absolutely abhors labor rights.
Thousands of Americans are laid off every day. The sense of entitlement and self-importance is just incredible.
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Most public servants accept lower wages than they could get in the private sector because they believe in public service. But public service is something these people cannot understand.
One thing I never realized until I moved to the DC area is the absolutely insane amount of people who think they are entitled to a job in government - forever. It is part of the rot in DC and they need a reality check about how the actual world works.
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War crimes.
Trump is using US taxpayer $$ to fund a private mercenary group that's led to hundreds of starving people being shot dead—all part of a sick scheme to drive Palestinians out of Gaza. Instead of ending the war & freeing the hostages, Trump gave Netanyahu a blank check. Shameful.
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