2. Eliza Relman, “Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says the theory that deficit spending is good for the economy should ‘absolutely’ be part of the conversation,” Business Insider, January 7, 2019, https://www.businessinsider.com/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-ommt-modern-monetary-theory-how-pay-for-policies-2019-1?r=US&IR=T.
3. Alexander Tanzi, “Top 3% of U.S. Taxpayers Paid Majority of Income Tax in 2016,” Bloomberg, October 14, 2018, https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-14/top-3-of-u-s-taxpayers-paid-majority-of-income-taxes-in-2016
4. “Building a Stronger America: President Donald J. Trump’s American Infrastructure Initiative,” The White House, February 12, 2018, https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/building-stronger-america-president-donald-j-trumps-american-infrastructure-initiative/.
5. Doyle McManus, “Most 2020 Democrats Say Capitalism Is a System That Needs Fixing,” Los Angeles Times, March 20, 2019, https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-democrats-socialism-capitalism-20190320-story.html.
6. Maxim Lott, “Americans Warming to Socialism Over Capitalism, Polls Show,” Fox News, January 4, 2019, https://www.foxnews.com/politics/americans-warming-to-socialism-over-capitalism-polls-show.
7. Rachel Frazin, “Kamala Harris: ‘I Am Not a Democratic Socialist,’” The Hill, February 19, 2019, https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/430554-kamala-harris-i-am-not-a-democratic-socialist.
8. Matt Welch, “Can a Self-Described ‘Capitalist’ Win the 2020 Democratic Primary?” Reason, March 1, 2019, https://reason.com/2019/03/01/can-a-self-described-capitalist-win-the/.
9. Mike Brest, “Cory Booker: ‘I Am Not a Socialist,’” Daily Caller, March 18, 2019, https://dailycaller.com/2019/03/18/cory-booker-socialist-capitalism/.
10. “Town Hall with Bernie Sanders: Part 1,” Fox News Show Clips, April 15, 2019, https://video.foxnews.com/v/6026527843001/#sp=show-clips.
11. Raymond J. Keating, “Original Intent and the Income Tax,” Foundation for Economic Freedom, February 1, 1996, https://fee.org/articles/original-intent-and-the-income-tax/.
12. Joseph Simonson, “Bernie Sanders: Soviet Socialism ‘Not My Thing’ but ‘Denmark and Sweden Do Very Well,’” Washington Examiner, April 6, 2019, https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/bernie-sanders-says-soviet-socialism-is-not-my-thing-but-denmark-and-sweden-do-very-well.
13. Adam Shaw, “Vintage Bernie Footage Shows Now-Presidential Candidate Praising Breadlines, Communist Nations,” Fox News, February 22, 2019, https://www.foxnews.com/politics/vintage-bernie-footage-shows-now-presidential-candidate-praising-breadlines-communist-nations.
14. Frank Dikötter, “The Disappeared,” Foreign Policy, January 2, 2013, https://foreignpolicy.com/2013/01/02/the-disappeared-mao/.
15. James A. Levine, “Poverty and Obesity in the U.S.,” American Diabetes Association, November 2011, http://diabetes.diabetesjournals.org/content/60/11/2667.
16. Valley News Editorial Board, “Close the Gaps: Disparities That Threaten America,” Valley News, August 5, 2011, https://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/must-read/close-the-gaps-disparities-that-threaten-america.
17. Flora Charner, Paula Newton, and Natalie Gallón, “Opponents Slam Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s Election Victory as a Sham,” CNN, May 21, 2018, https://edition.cnn.com/2018/05/20/americas/venezuela-elections/index.html.
18. Matthew Yglesias, “Denmark’s Prime Minister Says Bernie Sanders Is Wrong to Call His Country Socialist,” Vox, October 31, 2015, https://www.vox.com/2015/10/31/9650030/denmark-prime-minister-bernie-sanders.
19. Claire Boyte-White, “5 Developed Countries without Minimum Wages,” Investopedia, August 5, 2015, https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/080515/5-developed-countries-without-minimum-wages.asp.
20. “2019 Index of Economic Freedom,” Heritage Foundation, https://www.heritage.org/index/ranking.
21. Brian Darling, “Trump Regulatory Reform Saved Taxpayers $23 Billion,” Townhall, October 19, 2018, https://townhall.com/columnists/briandarling/2018/10/19/trump-regulatory-reform-saved-taxpayers-23-billion-n2530055.
22. “Corporate Tax Rates Table,” KPMG, https://home.kpmg/vg/en/home/services/tax1/tax-tools-and-resources/tax-rates-online/corporate-tax-rates-table.html.
23. Kyle Pomerleau, “Corporate Income Tax Rates Around the World, 2015,” Tax Foundation, October 1, 2015, https://taxfoundation.org/corporate-income-tax-rates-around-world-2015/.
24. Mahdi Barakat, “No, It’s Actually the Rich Who Deserve a Tax Break,” Foundation for Economic Education, December 15, 2017, https://fee.org/articles/no-it-s-actually-the-rich-who-deserve-a-tax-break/.
25. Justin Fox, “How High-Tax Countries Tax,” Bloomberg, February 19, 2019, https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-02-19/high-tax-countries-make-more-people-pay-taxes.
26. Elke Asen, “VAT Rates in Europe,” Tax Foundation, February 28, 2019, https://taxfoundation.org/vat-rates-europe-2019/.
27. Mark J. Perry, “Quotations from Thomas Sowell—One of the Greatest Living Economists,” American Enterprise Institute, January 7, 2016, http://www.aei.org/publication/quotations-from-thomas-sowell-one-of-the-greatest-economists-alive-today/.
28. Fred Bergsten, “The Swedish Model for Economic Recovery,” Petersen Institute for International Economics, August 30, 2013, https://piie.com/commentary/op-eds/swedish-model-economic-recovery.
29. Ibid.
30. “Sweden Corporate Tax Rate,” Trading Economics, https://tradingeconomics.com/sweden/corporate-tax-rate.
31. “Sweden Government Spending to GDP,” Trading Economics, https://tradingeconomics.com/sweden/government-spending-to-gdp.
32. “Denmark Government Spending to GDP,” Trading Economics, https://tradingeconomics.com/denmark/government-spending-to-gdp.
33. Amanda Billner, Rafaela Lindeberg, and Niklas Magnusson, “Now Even Swedes Are Questioning the Welfare State,” Bloomberg, June 26, 2018, https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-26/now-even-swedes-are-questioning-the-welfare-state.
34. Daniel Chaitin, “AOC to critics of Green New Deal: ‘I’m the boss’ until you try,” The Washington Examiner, February 24, 2019, https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/aoc-to-critics-of-green-new-deal-im-the-boss-until-you-try.
35. Ian Schwartz, “Full Video: FOX News Town Hall with Bernie Sanders,” RealClear Politics, April 15, 2019, https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2019/04/15/full_video_fox_news_town_hall_with_bernie_sanders.html.
36. Meera Senthilingam, “After 70 Years of Universal Health Care, Is the NHS at a Crisis Point?” CNN, February 13, 2018, https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/10/health/uk-nhs-universal-health-coverage-crisis-point-intl/index.html.
37. Alanna Petroff, “U.K. hospital crisis: Why can’t a rich economy fund its health care?” CNN, January 12, 2018, https://money.cnn.com/2018/01/12/news/nhs-health-care-doctors-hospitals/index.html.
38. Brett J. Skinner and Mark Rovere, “Canada’s Health Care Crisis Is an Economics Problem, Not a Management Problem,” Fraser Institute, https://www.fraserinstitute.org/article/canadas-health-care-crisis-is-an-economics-problem-not-a-management-problem.
CHAPTER THIRTEEN: GHOSTING CONSERVATIVES
1. Andrew McCarthy, “In Europe, Free Speech Bows to Sharia,” National Review, October 27, 2019, https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/10/free-speech-sharia-european-court-of-human-rights-ruling/.
2. Martin Niemöller, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/photo/quotation-from-martin-niemoeller.
3. Tom McKay, “YouTube: No, We Won’t Remove These Videos of Racist, Anti-Gay Harassment Because It’s Just ‘Debating’,” Gizmodo, June 5, 2019, https://gizmodo.com/youtube-no-we-wont-remove-these-videos-of-racist-ant-1835259054.
4. “PragerU Takes Legal Action Against Google and YouTube for Discrimination,” PragerU, https://www.prageru.com/press-release/prageru-takes-legal-action-against-google-and-youtube-for-discrimination/.
5. Anna Hopkins, “PragerU Accuses Twitter, YouTube of Censoring Ads and Videos,
Founder Calls Out ‘Assault’ on Free Speech,” Fox News, June 26, 2019, https://www.foxnews.com/tech/prageru-founder-accuses-twitter-youtube-of-censoring-advertisements-and-videos.
6. Ibid.
7. David Schultz, “Marketplace of Ideas,” Encyclopedia of the First Amendment, June 2017, https://www.mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/999/marketplace-of-ideas.
8. Joseph Curl, “New York Times Editor Admits Paper Is Very, Very (Very) Biased,” Washington Times, October 17, 2017, https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/oct/17/new-york-times-editor-admits-paper-is-very-very-ve/.
9. Chris Cillizza, “Just 7 Percent of Journalists Are Republicans. That’s Far Fewer Than Even a Decade Ago,” Washington Post, May 6, 2014, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2014/05/06/just-7-percent-of-journalists-are-republicans-thats-far-less-than-even-a-decade-ago/?utm_term=.c4bb4b576282.
10. “Obama, Democrats Got 88 Percent of 2008 Contributions by TV Network Execs, Writers, Reporters UPDATED!” Washington Examiner, August 27, 2010, https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/obama-democrats-got-88-percent-of-2008-contributions-by-tv-network-execs-writers-reporters-updated.
11. “Indicators of News Media Trust,” Knight Foundation, September 11, 2018, https://www.knightfoundation.org/reports/indicators-of-news-media-trust.
12. Oren Tsur, “The Data Behind Donald Trump’s Twitter Takeover,” Politico Magazine, April 29, 2016, https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/04/donald-trump-2016-twitter-takeover-213861.
13. Jaclyn Peiser, “New York Times Tops 4 Million Mark in Total Subscribers,” New York Times, November 1, 2018, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/01/business/media/new-york-times-earnings-subscribers.html.
14. Tony Romm and Elizabeth Dwoskin, “Facebook, Google and other tech giants to face antitrust investigation by House lawmakers,” Washington Post, June 3, 2019, https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/06/03/facebook-google-other-tech-giants-face-antitrust-investigation-by-house-lawmakers/?utm_term=.7782b39ddfd6.
15. Kate Conger, “Google Removes ‘Don’t Be Evil’ Clause From Its Code of Conduct,” Gizmodo, May 18, 2018, https://gizmodo.com/google-removes-nearly-all-mentions-of-dont-be-evil-from-1826153393.
16. David E. Broockman, Gregorgy Ferenstein, and Neil Malhotra, “The Political Behavior of Wealthy Americans: Evidence from Technology Entrepreneurs,” Stanford Graduate School of Business, September 5, 2017, https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/gsb-cmis/gsb-cmis-download-auth/441556.
17. “Insider Blows Whistle & Exec Reveals Google Plan to Prevent ‘Trump situation’ in 2020 on Hidden Cam,” Project Veritas, June 24, 2019, https://www.projectveritas.com/2019/06/24/insider-blows-whistle-exec-reveals-google-plan-to-prevent-trump-situation-in-2020-on-hidden-cam/.
18. Ibid.
19. “Project Veritas Sends Google Letters to Congress,” Project Veritas, June 28, 2019, https://www.projectveritas.com/2019/06/28/project-veritas-sends-google-letters-to-congress/.
20. Theodore Schleifer, “Twitter Won’t Censor Trump’s Rule-Breaking Tweets, But It Will Make Them Harder to Find,” Vox, June 27, 2019, https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/6/27/18761360/donald-trump-twitter-policy-censorship-rules.
21. Aaron Smith, “Public Attitudes Toward Technology Companies,” Pew Research Center, June 28, 2018, https://www.pewinternet.org/2018/06/28/public-attitudes-toward-technology-companies/?utm_source=adaptivemailer&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=18-06-28%20views%20of%20tech%20companies&org=982&lvl=100&ite=2793&lea=618395&ctr=0&par=1&trk=.
22. Richard Hanania, “It Isn’t Your Imagination: Twitter Treats Conservatives More Harshly Than Liberals,” Quillette, February 12, 2019, https://quillette.com/2019/02/12/it-isnt-your-imagination-twitter-treats-conservatives-more-harshly-than-liberals/.
23. Andrew Griffin, “Twitter Explains Why It Banned Rose McGowan After She Spoke Out About Hollywood Abuse,” The Independent, October 13, 2017, https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/twitter-rose-mcgowan-harvey-weinstein-ben-affleck-tweets-account-boycott-women-a7998996.html.
24. Ian Schwartz, “Tucker Carlson on Sarah Jeong: Left Thinks Racism Against White People ‘Impossible,’” RealClear Politics, August 3, 2018, https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2018/08/03/tucker_carlson_on_sarah_jeong_left_thinks_racism_against_white_people_impossible.html.
25. Jon Levine, “Twitter Verifies NY Times Writer Sarah Jeong After Outrage Over Old Tweets,” The Wrap, August 16, 2018, https://www.thewrap.com/twitter-verifies-sarah-jeong-after-outrage-over-old-tweets/.
26. Ibid.
27. Donald Trump (@realDonaldTrump), “Twitter ‘SHADOW BANNING’ prominent Republicans. Not good. We will look into this discriminatory and illegal practice at once! Many complaints,” Twitter, July 26, 2018, https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1022447980408983552?lang=en.
28. Sam Levin and Olivia Solon, “Zuckerberg Defends Facebook Users’ Right to Be Wrong—Even Holocaust Deniers,” The Guardian, July 18, 2018, https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jul/18/zuckerberg-facebook-holocaust-deniers-censorship.
29. Brian Robertson, “Facebook Censorship Fast Becoming an Enemy of Free Speech for Conservatives,” Washington Examiner, March 6, 2019, https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/op-eds/facebook-censorship-fast-becoming-an-enemy-of-free-expression-for-conservatives.
30. “Read CEO Jack Dorsey’s Full Testimony on Twitter and Political Bias,” PBS, September 4, 2018, https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/read-ceo-jack-dorseys-full-testimony-on-twitter-and-political-bias.
31. Andrew Griffin, “Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey Says He Was Probably Too Aggressive in Banning Right-Wing Activists,” The Independent, March 6, 2019, https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/twitter-ban-conservatives-right-wing-jack-dorsey-joe-rogan-interview-a8809866.html.
32. Katy Clifton, “Twitter boss Admits Algorithms Unfairly Hid 600,000 Accounts,” Evening Standard, September 6, 2018, https://www.standard.co.uk/front/twitter-boss-admits-algorithms-unfairly-hid-600000-accounts-a3929286.html.
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