Steve Mac

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Steve Mac

Steve Mac

@steveamac

Soon to be tax refugee fleeing MD Dems. aspiring gentleman farmer. Well armed parent. likes: tax-planning, investing, skiing. dislikes: crime, Ed PhDs

Maryland, USA Beigetreten Şubat 2016
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The Drunk Republican@DrunkRepub·
This is my favorite story from the woke era: two women from Portland, Oregon went to Mexico and fell in love with the tortillas. They walked around the town they were staying in asking all the old women how to make them and returned to Portland, excited, to open a burrito truck. The local paper ran a story on their new venture and 10 days later the truck was CLOSED and its social media scrubbed. Why? BECAUSE WHITE WOMEN AREN’T ALLOWED TO MAKE MEXICAN FOOD, according to the freaks in Portland they considered friends. May we never forget how insane all this shit was, lest it return! sfgate.com/food/article/2…
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@MattWalshBlog I agree with all those things but civil war or litmus tests means losing. There are tons of people who hate communists but aren't down for a national abortion ban. Influencers like Matt don't mind losing since they make more money ginning up outrage when their party is out.
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Matt Walsh@MattWalshBlog·
If we’re going to have a conservative civil war, the dividing line should be those who believe in protecting and preserving marriage, the family, and unborn life vs those indifferent or opposed. You can’t be a conservative in any meaningful sense if you don’t want to conserve the bedrock of civilization itself.
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@iDrSunny @HiltonHotels @metpoliceuk If you had money get away from leftist run territory. They want your money and if you have to be dead for that to happen, they don't care. Their pets are fed.
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Dr Sandeep Bansal
Dr Sandeep Bansal@iDrSunny·
London is a pretty sad place Had £10k worth of stuff stolen from a 5 star hotel @HiltonHotels Caught on CCTV Police informed and tracking details of one of the devices given Police say they can’t do anything unless assaulted or held at gun point @metpoliceuk Good job @MayorofLondon Expediting my exit to Dubai/Singapore
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F@cker Qatarlson and his ill propagandize for Islamist scum. Selling out the USA to foreign $$& is the opposite of America first. Embarrassed to say I used to love him when he was on Fox.
Imtiaz Mahmood@ImtiazMadmood

To all those ignoramus idiots claiming that the U.S. went to war with Iran on behalf of Israel, let me remind you why Trump ordered the killing of Qasem Soleimani in 2020. Between mid-2019 and early 2020, Iran-backed militias carried out over 100 incidents targeting U.S. forces in Iraq. Among these, around 43 were rocket or mortar attacks. One of the key triggers for killing Soleimani was the December 27 attack on the K-1 Air Base, which killed an American contractor. Beyond that, Iranian-backed militias, including Kata'ib Hezbollah, attacked the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad on December 31, 2019, leading to an almost Benghazi-style situation at the embassy. These escalating attacks all played into the decision to take out Soleimani. Soleimani’s Quds Force supplied IEDs that injured thousands of American servicemen and killed hundreds. ran-backed attacks also span decades—like the 1983 Beirut bombing that killed 241 Marines and the 1996 Khobar Towers attack in Saudi Arabia. This was a long-standing threat—not some favor for anyone else. Iran declared a low-key war against the United States in 1979 and never stopped, and the US finally woke up and decided that it's payback time. Instead of blaming the Jews, Israel, and AIPAC, blame your ignorance and educate yourself. - @YossiGoldstein8

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Brandon
Brandon@BrandonLukeMc·
Perhaps the worst part, the part most insultingly annoying about these people being professors, is that they are seriously dumb. They’re not even intelligent. Most working class people are smarter than this type of professor.
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Steve Mac@steveamac·
So many celebrities and media personalities beclown themselves in public forums like this, proving themselves untrustworthy followers of fashion. And then there's JK who validates her brilliance and heroic journey with every post.
J.K. Rowling@jk_rowling

This is a man who desires nothing more than to be admired, whose entire shtick revolves around presenting himself as a hero worthy of envy and emulation (lest we forget, he 'identifies with Gandhi and Martin Luther King'). To people like Maugham, any perceived diminution of what they believe to be their exalted status feels like a mortal attack, which is why every loss must be spun as a win, and black must be made to be white if the facts threaten his self-image. He's just the latest in a long line of people on social media who think they're dealing me a fatal blow by telling me I've lost popularity, that my legacy is tarnished or that former fans hate me. None of these people appear to grasped yet that I'm completely indifferent to being disliked by people I've never met, especially those I do not respect because of their online behaviour or what I believe to be their irrational and illiberal views. Maugham is a textbook narcissist who can't believe that everyone else doesn't live life with an unceasing thirst for validation from complete strangers. In spite of the fact that we've never met, and that as the years have rolled by I've been very open about the fact that I find his public behaviour increasingly bizarre, he seems to genuinely believe that the loss of his approval will cause me anguish. In reality, it's a welcome source of ongoing entertainment, so long may he continue.

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𝐍𝐢𝐨𝐡 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐠 🇮🇷 ✡︎
I can't stress enough how vital it is to eliminate the demon Ejei and all the regime appointed judges, along with their courthouses. This will save thousands of Iranians, including teenagers, currently on death row to be hanged. Take them all out.
𝐍𝐢𝐨𝐡 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐠 🇮🇷 ✡︎ tweet media
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Councilwoman Vickie Paladino
Here's a sad fact I've learned from working with these people for almost five years now. They do this because they don't know how to do anything else. Some (some) of them are good people and well meaning, they just don't know anything about anything, and this is all they can do. Others are genuinely malicious. But they just have a fundamentally broken view of what government is, because they have a fundamentally broken political ideology. So everything in government becomes a giant redistributionist scheme, and nothing actually gets better. They measure success by how much money they've sent out the door, and no other metric matters. If you point out that there are more homeless than ever living on the street, the response will be 'we spent XX billion dollars on housing services!'. If you point out that our schools are producing kids that can't read, the response will be 'we spent XX billion to support our school districts and teachers!'. And so forth. There is no intellectual connection between the intent of the spending and the actual tangible result. It doesn't matter. They're completely uninterested in it. The spending is the point, and the ONLY point. This is also why they don't care about fraud and waste. Aside from the fact that progressive political operations tend to directly benefit from it, the fact is they wouldn't care either way. Getting the money out the door is the virtue in and of itself. Questioning it is unacceptable, proposing cuts is a moral outrage, and demanding results is heartless and cruel. This is all they know how to do.
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Luke Rosiak@lukerosiak·
There were five murderers in Fairfax County this year. Three were illegal immigrants and one was a Democrat lieutenant governor VA Democrats are now trying to arrest ICE and ban guns, while exempting legislators from the gun laws.
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Steve Mac@steveamac·
@memeticsisyphus I was radicalized when we got a female principle who banned boys playing dodgeball because it was too violent in 1987.
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Steve Mac@steveamac·
@MDBayNews Why do we subsidize horse racing? Totally ridiculous.
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MDBayNews@MDBayNews·
Maryland is spending $400 million to rebuild Pimlico. The Masters costs taxpayers $0. The Kentucky Derby pays for itself. So what exactly is Maryland buying? Preakness vs. prestige. Public money vs. private power. mdbaynews.com/2026/04/12/mos…
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Steve Mac@steveamac·
@ArtemisConsort I cleaned up a suicide scene in a group trans house in the most trans precinct in a large state. A 27 year old w/ parents from Mt Clair NJ (very left) who paid their kids rent every month. very sad (only child) but it wasn't a lack of a friendly confirming environment.
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Hunter Ash@ArtemisConsort·
A significant amount of the trans suicide rate is attributable to comorbidities - people who identify as trans also tend to have a bunch of other mental illnesses. But based on my own experience and those of people I knew, I also think it has a causal effect on mental illness. It really is exhausting and deranging to stake your whole identity on your ability to create a false impression in the minds of other people. It’s not healthy to think that much about what other people think about you. Yes this is anecdotal speculation, not proof, but I believe it.
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@Shadow_of_702 @YIMBYLAND School system and parking authority were vastly improved when the state took them over. PGW? You guys pay >50% more so your pols can dole out favors. Anything Philly government touches is sh%t.
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Reggie Hammond 🏀🧑‍💻@Shadow_of_702·
@steveamac @YIMBYLAND Powers clipped by the state?!? Buddy I wish we could leave the state. We (Philly and region) are the true economic engines of the region. And frankly I'd rather our money didn't go to underperforming PA Counties reliant on Philly tax money.
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Steve Mac@steveamac·
I understand things but just don't follow that closely anymore. You're right the city started micro-cutting again after stopping in 2023. It drives me nuts every year when I have to file a separate incomprehensible poorly explained income tax form with 3 different types of income tax to Philadelphia. Why don't they just piggyback on the state form and instead administer their own IRS operation? Of course it's a jobs program for 1000 useless, actually counterproductive, union members at the revenue department. I'm still questioning why they didn't appeal the $100k threshold to the Supreme Court but it seems they're getting rid of the ridiculous revenue tax altogether someday.
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@JacobPritchett @YIMBYLAND The city can't run an airport or a natural gas company either. Everything they do becomes a jobs program for city unions delivering tap service. They actually lost money running the parking authority in the 90's. How can you lose money issuing parking tickets?
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Cooper® Sharp Enjoyer
Cooper® Sharp Enjoyer@JacobPritchett·
@steveamac @YIMBYLAND Also the state can’t run Philadelphia. Most of the politicians from the rest of the state hate the city and want it to fail despite the fact that SEPA represents like more than 40% of the state’s economy. And the senate majority leader is a vindictive drunk with no plan
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Steve Mac@steveamac·
I checked the rates. I knew recently they stopped the tiny reductions put in place since Rendell & the 90's default. And then I got this reintroduction of the obnoxiously named "Business Provilege Tax" eliminating the $100k threshold for taxing revenue. My taxes have gone up immensely over 20 years >500%, but that's mainly property taxes. City income taxes where there's a big differential with the suburbs are a deadly dumb policy. For awhile it seemed Philly had learned this but then the DSA people got council seats determined to repeat past errors. Anyway happy to hear they started reducing the wage tax again in 24. Philly is like a degenerate drug addict kid to me- still love it but really there's nothing I can do to fix it and in the meantime just want to keep them away from my money.
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Cooper® Sharp Enjoyer
Cooper® Sharp Enjoyer@JacobPritchett·
@steveamac @YIMBYLAND Yes politics are still dysfunctional here but I think reforming the tax system is still possible and a lot of people want it to happen
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Steve Mac@steveamac·
I did a comparison between Baltimore and Philly 2000 to 2020, looking at metrics. Philly was worse off on almost every metric, crime, income taxes (but not property taxes), especially state support. Both cities lost a quarter of their population from WWIi to 2000. Philly somehow turned the corner and gained while Baltimore kept losing despite its advantages. One metric where Philly ruled was charter schools. PA was an innovator there. MD has the worst charter law in the country and the Baltimore city school system is terrible, despite the state paying over 85% of the budget, so people with kids leave for the burbs. In Philly you have options especially when your kid gets to middle school. Which makes parents a lot more likely to give their local school a shot. While PA is often hostile to Philly, they helped on that key metric.
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cam@camvinson7·
@steveamac @YIMBYLAND The State is probably worse and hinders Philadelphia’s growth more than the city ever could. They constantly are kneecapping SEPTA and overall not pro growth.
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