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@Declansayshi @HQNewsNow If taxpayer funded child care is anything like taxpayer funded roads those poor children will be in trouble.

@HQNewsNow The horror! Taxpayer funded childcare!! Think of all the billionaires that will be taxed to fund this! They need another yacht more than the middle class needs a break!!!!

Mayor Mamdani: We are here at an active construction site that will be transformed into New York City's first ever on-site childcare program for municipal employees. This is a site that will be 100% free, full daycare for children as young as 6 weeks to 3 years old

@CursedTeams @RezaC1 @HQNewsNow Raza didn’t mention bombing in his post. Did I miss something that he said?

@RezaC1 @HQNewsNow But you’re fine with the federal government spending billions every day bombing other countries and killing children…got it

@Lying_For_Jesus @AldericGaming @TheRabbitHole Therefore, all children must be retarded public school school policies.

@Food4JS @AldericGaming @TheRabbitHole Charter schools are still socialized funding. They just outsource the management. They rely on the very taxes you're critiquing. Plus, they often lack the overhead of public schools by skipping things like busing, which actually leaves the most underserved kids behind.

Capitalism creates so there’s more for everyone. Socialism is the weaponization of greed and envy making everyone worse off.

@Lying_For_Jesus @AldericGaming @TheRabbitHole What about charter schools? Wouldn’t charter schools be put in underserved for that very reason?

@AldericGaming @TheRabbitHole Private schools are "cheaper" because they can choose their students. Public funding ensures the kid in the poorest zip code still gets a bus, a desk, and a meal. Building codes exist, but codes don't pave roads where there’s no profit. Taxes do.

@NaOgunsola @SenSanders Bernie is the oligarchy.

@SenSanders Power and wealth concentrated in the hands of a few isn’t just unfair it shapes every part of society. Calling out the oligarchy and demanding change is the kind of bold honesty that sparks real conversation. Inequality isn’t inevitable; it’s a choice we can challenge.

The defining issue of our time is inequality. Never before have so few owned so much and wielded so much power. We are living in an oligarchy. That must change. My speech to the National Community Action Foundation: twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…

@SundKane @GerberKawasaki Range Anxiety is real.

@GerberKawasaki and get Range Anxiety, sit in the charging lots for 15-30 min. The EV makers have to do 500 mile range minimum to avoid these situations most of the time.

Just buy an EV and your cost of living will go down by thousands of dollars a year. Driving a gas car is 4-5 times more expensive. Lots of great EVs at a good prices online.

@0xWuki @cremieuxrecueil If they didn’t, they wouldn’t stay in business. It’s savings for a rainy day. B

@cremieuxrecueil retailers always find a way to win lol

This was neat: Researchers traced a tariff on $5 European wines into the U.S. to see who paid it. The tariff itself was $1.19, producers paid $0.26 and importers took a $0.44 cut, but retailers used the tariff as an excuse to add a $1.10 margin. The price went up $1.59 (~32%):

Science applied to agriculture!

@4TaxFairness Have you heard of California?

This is really simple, folks. The states that have low income taxes tend to have the worst public health and worst education systems. The states that ask its richest residents to pay a higher income tax are able to fund schools, hospitals, infrastructure, childcare, and more.

@OhCryMeARiver @the_righti11633 @SandyofCthulhu Did you build your own home?

@the_righti11633 @SandyofCthulhu Yup! That is why new builds are so awful and constantly built poorly. Companies only care for profits not for the product that they make. Corporations have become the enemy of the American dream, which was to make a superior product.

The bishop of my former congregation worked in for the City of Berkeley. I was his clerk. He told us that when rent control got voted in, the landlords fell into two groups. One group jacked up their rents as high as possible before the law took effect. The others left their rents as was, trying to be nice guys. The "nice guys" then took it in the shorts. Some went bankrupt. Some just abandoned their buildings and let the city grab them for non-payment of taxes. Most followed the policy of never ever letting anyone new back into an apartment when someone moved out. The landlord end-game was if EVERYONE moved out of your complex, you could remodel the thing and then even Berkeley would let you calculate new rents. He said he knew of several apartment buildings in which only one tenant was left, hanging on for dear life. The owner just waiting for the guy to leave. Of course no landlord had any motivation to ever repair, repaint, or refurbish anything in a rent-controlled complex. When I moved to the East Bay I was pretty much pro-rent control. When I left, I thought it was the stupidest idea ever.

@AurelianofRome More cats in your timeline, please. Cats bring happiness in a sad world.

@saturnslut_ @TheKevinDalton @latimes What if you need the money and want to work? Why should someone be harassed (or worse) for wanting to feed their family?

@TheKevinDalton @latimes He was against his own people coming and breaking his strike, and crossing the picket line. Mexicans from Mexico already look at Mexican Americans different. That’s all everyone can say is “hE hAtEd iLlEgAlS” No it’s simple. Do not cross a picket line EVER. Even today, right???

The United Farmer Workers union said it will halt celebrations of its founder Cesar Chavez amid what the union described as “troubling allegations” against the iconic Chicano figure. latimes.com/california/sto…

@maggiej464748 @SenSanders Bernie is an oligarch. He also adds to income inequality by making well above his states median income. The man is a fraud and a hypocrite.

@SenSanders Thank you Bernie for your continued fight against the greed in America.

Wealth inequality has never been so bad. While 60% live paycheck to paycheck, 938 billionaires got $1.5T richer in 2025. Justice Brandeis was right: "We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both."

@Politicsworld @SenSanders @PeeTapeExpert You seem to be conflating personal income taxes and corporate income taxes. When you say “tax the rich” what are you specifically talking about? Are corporations “rich?” Do you define rich by net wealth, or high income? Can you provide some specifics?

@SenSanders @PeeTapeExpert If you paid $1 In federal income taxes, you paid more than: Tesla in 2024 & 2022 AT&T in 2021 Nike in 2020 FedEx in 2020 Dish Network in 2020 Amazon in 2017-2018 Elon Musk in 2018 Jeff Bezos in 2007 & 2011 Carl Icahn in 2016-2017 Yes. It’s time to tax the rich.

@BigGeckoOnly @4nt1p4tt3rn That’s not what people on assistance are buying. It’s more like soda and McDonald’s.

@4nt1p4tt3rn Anybody on snap for the right reasons would never be buying those things. When they only give you a couple hundred for a whole month, you're buying spaghetti, the cheapest ground beef, bread, butter, cheese and sauce. Hamburger helper is 2/5 or the store brand. Starving people.

The thickest irony here? Steak, lobster, and crab legs all qualify as SNAP/EBT purchases.

@TimePreference_ @SenSanders Hey Bernie, do you realize that your ideas lead a nation to ruin? It’s time to hang up the spurs and stop talking about utopia.

venezuela had the largest oil reserves in the world socialism turned abundance into starvation in less than two decades no amount of natural resources can overcome the economic calculation problem

@MurrayFurry1 @houmanhemmati @FedUpCitizenLA Long Beach is also an option.

@houmanhemmati @FedUpCitizenLA Bob Hope Burbank Airport Rejoices!

😡 LAX LUNACY JUST HIT A NEW LOW — and it’s going to make YOU late and broke! These clowns just jacked Uber/Lyft pick-up & drop-off fees by 140%+ (from $4 to $12 at the terminals!) — all to FORCE you onto their disastrous $5 BILLION 2-mile Skylink train. Here’s what the article conveniently left out: ✅ You’ll now have to haul all your luggage across the entire central terminal to a train station, wait (if it even shows up), ride the slow thing, then drag everything to your actual terminal/gate. ✅ That adds 30-60 minutes of pure hell to every arrival and departure — if the train runs at all. ✅ 30% or more of ALL drop-offs are now FORCED to the remote train station — NOT the airport itself. Meaning thousands of people will miss flights while these idiots pat themselves on the back. We already pay insane taxes just to live here… and now they’re charging us a “premium” for the privilege of reaching our own damn airport?! This insanity was approved by the Airport Commission hand-picked by @MayorOfLA @KarenBassLA - She owns every bit of this mess. Meanwhile the rich will have their car services continue to drop off & pick up right at the gate. How’s that for “equity”? The ONLY way to stop this madness and fix LAX for good? Elect @SpencerPratt as Mayor of Los Angeles.

@jd6638a @OfficialSPGB @SenSanders Bernie would prefer Venezuela or Cuba. Europe is too capitalistic for him.

@OfficialSPGB @SenSanders BULLSH*T, move to Europe then ....

I am delighted that dogs are able to receive high-quality health care. But what about humans? In America today, 85 million are uninsured or under-insured. Health care must be considered a human right. We need Medicare for All, NOW.

@Playful121 @SecKennedy Some times it’s a good to back down when you are wrong. Fighting just for the sake of fighting is meaningless at best.

@SecKennedy Thank you Bobby. You have a big fan in me. Love your warrior won’t-back-down spirit. It’s what we need. Not political pay-offs.

As I said during my confirmation, I will continue to promote and fund research that drives new cures and better treatments for this devastating disease. We will advance gold-standard science and deliver real progress for patients and families in the fight against Alzheimer’s.

@Scott_Wiener PG&E writes legislation? How could they force a poison pill in the legislation?

The Board of Supervisors voted 11-0 to support our bill to help SF break up w/ PG&E. Over time PG&E slipped poison pills into CA eminent domain law to make it harder to form a publicly owned utility. SB 875 removes them. SF deserves fair process as it moves toward public power.