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Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee - Video: Free markets—when they’re allowed to function—create abundance and keep prices in check. 
Government interference has the opposite effect.
Progressives reject free markets and thereby jeopardize the price reductions they promise to deliver.
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Wall Street Mav @WallStreetMav
Senate Democrats have introduced what they call the Fair Prices for Local Businesses Act. The bill targets suppliers that offer discounts to large retail chains which, in turn, pass the savings on to their customers.
They claim that the bill “would bring down prices for American families.”
They are basically trying to outlaw bulk discounts to business. This would destroy the business model of companies like Costco and Sams Club. 
Bulk packaging saves up to 17% just in packaging costs for consumers. Democrats want to make that illegal for businesses to give other business bulk pricing discounts. They think their legislation will somehow make prices cheaper for consumers.
https://x.com/BasedMikeLee/status/2056387073377173750

Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee - I have never worked with a lawmaker more courageous, tenacious, or committed to the Constitution than Chip Roy @chiproytx. 
I can’t imagine a better Texas Attorney General. 
If you live in Texas, please vote for Chip next Tuesday.
https://x.com/BasedMikeLee/status/2056383728256270339

Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee - Great insight from @RyanMNeuhaus on the importance of translating ideas and campaign slogans into action in government: 
“For the current coalition to survive, the Trump Administration and the Republican Party must deliver on their promises, and this includes building a political operation capable of organizing, mobilizing, and expanding the base between election cycles.”
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Ryan Matthew Neuhaus @RyanMNeuhaus
"We are no longer operating in an era where the primary contest is over ideas in the abstract. That era, if it ever truly existed, has given way to something far less forgiving. We are in the midst of returning to hard power politics: a contest not merely over what is true, but over who more effectively organizes, mobilizes, and governs—and whether that governing power produces tangible results for the constituencies that support it...
The temptation, particularly among policy-oriented institutions and individuals, is to retreat into soft power politics: the belief that sufficiently refined policy proposals with rhetorical intensity will, in time, realign the system. It’s a comforting illusion, because it allows one to remain within the realm of ideas, insulated from the messiness of actual political contestation.
But a beautifully constructed policy proposal, no matter how compelling, requires a coalition capable of forcing it through a legislature and defending it against opposition. Without that, a policy idea remains what it always was: inert and ultimately irrelevant..."
My latest, on the return of hard power politics, for the @theammind.  👇
https://x.com/BasedMikeLee/status/2056382176124617037

Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee -  🙏🏽
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Carsen Cooper @carsenlcooper
Mike Lee really sparked my interest in politics. I met him twice in 2023 between a rally in St. George and Boys Nation.
Best Senator, and it doesn’t even compare.
@BasedMikeLee
https://x.com/BasedMikeLee/status/2056365524167340395
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