Senior Research Fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University
Arlington, VA
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Veronique de Rugy retweeted
Writeup on the Sqawk Box debate: Empty threats, false claims that billionaires don’t pay taxes, and imaginary wealth tax revenue, all a couple hours before the AI audit controversy.
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BECOMING a billionaire (by satisfying our wants) makes the rest of us fabulously richer! Read @VeroDeRugy at @TownHallCom.
Every time @ChrisPappasNH slams billionaires, he slams America—by parroting the #Marxist envy jive that someone else's cash means you've been robbed.
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Veronique de Rugy retweeted
New York ($37,006 per capita), New Jersey ($35,100), Connecticut ($33,189), Illinois ($31,582) and Hawaii ($30,759) have the highest total state and local debt, which includes debt at the state, county, city and school district levels within each state.
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Veronique de Rugy retweeted
Thank you @adamnmichel and @CatoInstitute for convening such a great discussion.
Subsidizing Hollywood with taxpayer dollars is a bad idea, especially given our fiscal trajectory. Seems like an odd priority for Congress.
Thanks to @gordontrac and @_JackSalmon_ for helping us explain why Congress should be skeptical of plans to send billions in new subsidies to Hollywood.
And thanks to the congressional staff who packed the room!
@mercatus @TaxPolicyCenter
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Veronique de Rugy retweeted
My @HooverInst colleague @joshrauh brilliantly debates @gabriel_zucman on the California Prop 40 wealth tax with @andrewrsorkin @JoeSquawk @BeckyQuick “Golden State or Golden Exit? Experts debate the California wealth tax” via @CNBC
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Veronique de Rugy retweeted
Peter C. Earle (@peter_c_earle ) of AIER on what big fortunes are really made of (factories, equipment, property and ideas, not cash in a vault) and what a wealth tax does to the savings and capital that make workers more productive.
The full conversation on Qualified Opinions with Véronique de Rugy (@veroderugy) is below.
In the new episode of Qualified Opinions, @veroderugy speaks with @Dave_Hebert, @Econ_Goggles, and @peter_c_earle about Trump, a national wealth tax, and the push to rename everything.
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Veronique de Rugy retweeted
I wrote the following in 2023:
"The reason why this matters is that the vast majority of Zucman’s work builds off the 2003 paper (notably with how they poorly create denominators for total income) by Piketty and Saez. They have never updated that work and Zucman just keeps repeating it. As a result, I admit that I consider most of Zucman’s inequality work (both as a solo author or with Piketty and Saez) as highly dubious because he and they keep treating the data with little care as showed in both our articles"
vincentgeloso.com/2023/05/03…
Errors in the research of Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman marginalrevolution.com/margi…
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Worth reading.
SCOOP: Democrats have insisted they have nothing to do with the other Dan Sullivan on Alaska's Senate ballot.
But aides with the Mary Peltola campaign and DSCC were part of a monthslong secret plan to recruit him to run -- as well as other candidates.
nytimes.com/2026/10/28/us/po…
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Veronique de Rugy retweeted
Let's be honest, the West hates Mao because he liberated Chinese people, united the country, and made it impossible to be a Western puppet.
Moreover, he inspired more Asian, African, and Latin American people's anti-colonial and anti-imperialist movements. The West slanders any leader who refuses to obey them.
Mao was a great strategist, revolutionist, thinker, writer and leader. Long live the great unity of the people of the world!💪
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Veronique de Rugy retweeted
Many thanks @CafeHayek for these generous words about my new @EncounterBooks THE CIVILIZATION OF COMMERCE and the citation from the book (available at @amazon) 1/2
cafehayek.com/2026/10/some-l…
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Veronique de Rugy retweeted
Golden State or Golden Exit? Golden State or Golden Exit? I debate the California wealth tax with @gabriel_zucman on @SquawkCNBC
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Veronique de Rugy retweeted
Three hundred years ago today, Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels was published anonymously in London.
In a May essay for @Plough , Henry Oliver explores how Swift’s humor darkens. What begins as hilarious mockery of political and religious quarrels ends with a disturbing portrait of cruelty disguised as reason.
Jonathan Swift’s Frustrated Humor
On the three-hundredth anniversary of Gulliver’s Travels, Swift’s satire of his own society is remarkably relevant.
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Veronique de Rugy retweeted
Jimmy Lai is still unjustly imprisoned.
Today. Still.
China is murdering him slowly given his health and the inhumane conditions. This is cruel and unusual punishment. And, oh by the way, you have solidified his status and martyr and hero every moment you keep him confined.
Release him to his family.
I still can’t stop picturing the state dinner we had for Xi Jinping at the White House. Glad everyone enjoyed and all. But this is still happening in our world today, to a man with tremendous humility, courage, and resilience.
Selfishly I want him freed because I want to learn from him about holiness.
There should not be a day when we do not pray for the release of Jimmy Lai until it happens.
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Awesome and congrats! I wish I lived in Indianapolis or that Amy would start this too in Arlington VA!
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Meet Amy Willis! 📚🍷
Educator. Book lover. Conversation enthusiast.
She's part of the team bringing GoodRiches Books & Enid's Table to downtown Indianapolis—where great books, delicious food, good wine & interesting people come together.
#GoodRichesBooks @EnidsTable #DowntownIndy #IndyBookshop
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Veronique de Rugy retweeted
"It cannot be stated often enough or vociferously enough: the Trump Administration is helping Russia to conquer Ukraine. The United States of America has taken the side of an aggressor against its innocent victim."
By my @AEI colleague @KoriSchake. aei.org/foreign-and-defense-…
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Veronique de Rugy retweeted
Another example of a “democratic” socialist who can’t bring himself to wholeheartedly oppose authoritarian socialism:
For once, the community note is actually useful. Millions of people did indeed die under Mao's reign. It was a tragedy.
But, for some reason, the Western mind seems incapable of grasping the complex impact of Mao. In the West, we refuse to acknowledge that Mao is actually respected and admired in China.
I've listed a few reasons in my original post. Unity and sovereignty are big ones. After a century of being carved up and subjected to imperialism, Mao unified China into a single central state. He removed foreign influence. He stood up to the US.
China’s status as a major power today rests on foundations built by Mao.
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Veronique de Rugy retweeted
DL propose suppression de l'abattement Papon, fin des régimes spéciaux, et désindexation durable des pensions au-dessus d'un certain niveau.
C'est sans doute encore trop peu en proportion de l'effort total à fournir, mais injuste de dire qu'il ne propose que la capitalisation.
Si c’est Lisnard le winner de la battle à droite, faut vraiment maintenir le pressing sur les retraites. Parce que c’est vraiment LE sujet sur lequel il n'est pas sérieux. Il se cache derrière un hypothétique passage à la capitalisation, qui pour rappel existe déjà, eh, oui, un
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Veronique de Rugy retweeted
Vital to understand that buy-borrow-die is nowhere near as big or prevalent as is being portrayed, and is not a justification for wealth taxation. ⬇️
The evidence is that the "buy, borrow, die" loophole is probably big enough to justify a targeted loophole closer, but nowhere near big enough to justify broad-based wealth or mark-to-market taxes.
Three weeks ago, I explored this is more depth: georgecallas.substack.com/p/…
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