“Lookback” is a good idea, We want to help people who are attached to the work force, which doesn’t necessarily require income *this* year. But if you start giving multiple years for 1 year of work it starts to look more like welfare. Would you really object to a 1 for 1 rule? https://t.co/TjNJ4ZCweH
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 30, 2024
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Oren! You admit Hawley & Romney/Daines/Burr proposals let people use last year’s income to get 1 year of benefits. This proposal lets you get 2 years. A welfare-like effect–subsidizing a no-work culture–might result. Why not go back to Hawley/Romney rule: 1 yr income=1 yr CTC https://t.co/zSJm8mU11G
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 30, 2024
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January 30, 2024 at 06:48PM
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Not the “lookback” provisions (2 years of benefit for 1 year of work). https://t.co/QuOyn5oTrm We shouldn’t do anything that helps create of a no-work culture at the economy’s bottom. There are easy ways to fix this! (#1 Don’t to it. #2: OK to use last year’s income only if you… https://t.co/UySlAeHGwY https://t.co/ITPNIEwYMR
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 30, 2024
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January 30, 2024 at 06:32PM
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This is the bill that has the Refundable Child Tax Credit expansion (with the dilution of the work requirement–two years of benefits for one year of work) … https://t.co/FKgteF7mMJ
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 30, 2024
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A long list https://t.co/kvxao1QnL9
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 30, 2024
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Of course it’s a down payment on Dem’s preferred “no work” child “tax credit.” Washington Dems are open about it and have been pushing for no-work child payments for many years. You aren’t actually that naive, are you? https://t.co/mkjexxc46V
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 30, 2024
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January 30, 2024 at 01:20AM
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Amazing how MSM has fallen in line with “Trump killed the deal” spin. Here, eg, is Mike Johnson’s “Absolutely not” tweet on January 13. https://t.co/uAqP6A8AEL You can find him opposing it weeks earlier. Trump didn’t speak up until January 17th. https://t.co/ZPOmJ3Cx6o https://t.co/PYGDSa2vMP
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 29, 2024
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Never understood the big difference between letting in asylum seekers at ports of entry [which the deal would apparently allow] vs. between ports of entry [which it would ‘pause’ sometimes]. Entrants at ports of entry still lower US wages. It’s just cleaner optics for Biden. https://t.co/I3DyZJPTgr
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 29, 2024
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January 29, 2024 at 01:51AM
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“Shut down the border”
5,000 Monday
5,000 Tuesday
5,000 Wednesday
5,000 Thursday
5,000 Friday
5,000 Saturday
4,999 Sundayhttps://t.co/EcMtYClQTl
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 29, 2024
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January 29, 2024 at 01:18AM
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“Mandatory detention [for a day?]” https://t.co/9DF9eDFfsi
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Jan 29, 2024
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January 29, 2024 at 01:12AM
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These are just the loopholes that hit you in the face reading accounts of the deal. Still to come are the loopholes discovered in the fine print, or evident to veterans–eg there isn’t detention capacity for the “mandatory” detainees. Will they be let go? https://t.co/mtkqDV1JZU https://t.co/I3DyZJPTgr
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 29, 2024
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January 29, 2024 at 01:11AM
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Come to think of it, does the deal limit asylum admissions at “ports of entry” at all, even during shutdowns? They could be 10,000 a day? 100,000? https://t.co/igOjphe3XF
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 29, 2024
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Loophole #4 (huge): “[A]n authority to ‘shut down the border’…would be mandated after average daily migrant crossings hit 5,000 over seven days.” (CBS) “It does not allow 5,000 migrants to enter the country a day,” source tells @politico. It doesn’t! It allows
5,000
5,000… https://t.co/qnFJFJICNe— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 29, 2024
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Likely loophole #3: “[Migrants who cross into the U.S. illegally would not be allowed to ask for asylum, and would face swift deportation to Mexico or their home country.” Immigration veterans know that “face swift deportation” does not mean “are actually deported.” Lots of… https://t.co/8kOWFtsPOS https://t.co/igOjphe3XF
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 29, 2024
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Loophole #2: “It would preserve asylum at official ports of entry. In fact, it would require U.S. border officials to continue processing more than 1,400 asylum-seekers daily at these official border crossings when the ‘shutdown’ authority is invoked.” Another *restriction* on… https://t.co/YFiZMeHGMT https://t.co/DLYWDYjlmn
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 29, 2024
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Loophole #1: “”There would also be a limit on the number of days each year the president could invoke the authority.” After that, it’s Katy Bar the Door? Sounds like a *restriction* of president’s authority. Aimed at Trump? https://t.co/SSmiCkAWUG
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 29, 2024
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January 29, 2024 at 12:43AM
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Latest description of magic secret border bill, from @CBS . Several loopholes already evident https://t.co/EcMtYClQTl
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Jan 29, 2024
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January 29, 2024 at 12:41AM
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Why weaken work incentives at all? https://t.co/mkjexxc46V
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Jan 29, 2024
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January 28, 2024 at 11:15PM
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Fan mail for some flounders https://t.co/P0e0leKYJi
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 28, 2024
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January 28, 2024 at 01:59PM
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Media unaware the WSJ is for open borders https://t.co/w6JArisf59
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Jan 28, 2024
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January 28, 2024 at 12:27PM
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If not “contrition,” then at least an admission of error … https://t.co/3YOFjFPaO1
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Jan 28, 2024
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January 28, 2024 at 12:02PM
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Of course we should wait to see the magic secret Schumer-Lankford bill before reaching a final verdict. Maybe @BillMelugin_ is right and it has some bite. But if it gives away the first 5,000 migrants every day, it starts off in a big hole. Even after that it looks like, as… https://t.co/WPDE5IVzlt https://t.co/3YOFjFPaO1
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Jan 28, 2024
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January 28, 2024 at 11:43AM
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Biden spent first 3 years of his presidency self-righteously removing barriers against mass immigration, letting in millions of illegals. Now that this threatens his reelection he says he’ll shut down the border but only if Congress passes his bill. Normally you’d expect some… https://t.co/IuR5lwJq1l https://t.co/n6Hk6iCTS3
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 28, 2024
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January 28, 2024 at 11:33AM
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We were promised “feats of political athleticism” … https://t.co/uPZb68X0T5
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Jan 28, 2024
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January 28, 2024 at 11:13AM
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“sticking to the script killed her.” https://t.co/yrBXBuSbSp
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Jan 28, 2024
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January 28, 2024 at 02:19AM
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