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BeltwayMapMaker #СлаваУкраїні 🇺🇦

@BeltwayMap

He/Him Moderate Dem, Data Analyst, Mapmaker. Washingtonian by way of Florida #DCStatehood Sen. Nelson plz come back, we miss you. Anarcho-Absolute Monarchist

Washington, D.C. Katılım Mart 2019

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BeltwayMapMaker #СлаваУкраїні 🇺🇦@BeltwayMap·29 Haz

HR 51's passage was historic, but it is not the closest DC has ever been to full representation. In 1978, both chambers of congress passed an amendment which would give DC full representation, but it was never ratified. Tomorrow we will take a look at the senate vote #DCStatehood

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BeltwayMapMaker #СлаваУкраїні 🇺🇦@BeltwayMap·4 Oca

@Josh_Brooks_16 @ladyofthefire @offbeatorbit Options are a shortcut and you're just too lazy to grind, save and accumulate your own investment capital, so you rely on leverage. I'm sure you don't see it that way though, hypocrites never have consistent worldviews.

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Gump Man🐘@Josh_Brooks_16·4 Oca

@ladyofthefire @offbeatorbit Not really. Excess option income from the last 6 months. And some fun money from today😘

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Ashley Reese@offbeatorbit·3 Oca

I think people low key want there to be grizzly ozempic stories down the line just so they can say “I told you so.”

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BeltwayMapMaker #СлаваУкраїні 🇺🇦@BeltwayMap·2 Oca

@Sean_Fernyhough @JGrantGlover Also, since safety ratings generally only care about how protected the driver is in a crash,(rather than peds, other drivers, maneuverability) tend to favor large, tank like behemoths. There are a whole host of regulatory perverse incentives that have led us to where we are.

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Minister for Good Sense@Sean_Fernyhough·2 Oca

@JGrantGlover Why did pick-up trucks get this big? Manufacturers satisfying latent consumer demand or was there some legislation protecting domestic manufacture of these vehicles through, say safety regulations, while cars remained more open to foreign competition?

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Jeremy Glover@JGrantGlover·2 Oca

The truck used in the New Orleans terrorist attack is a Ford F-150 Lightning, which is perfectly designed for this kind of attack. It weighs more than 6000 lbs, accelerates to 60 mph in just 4 seconds, and the battering-ram-shaped front is nearly 5 feet tall. Deadly by design.

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BeltwayMapMaker #СлаваУкраїні 🇺🇦@BeltwayMap·2 Oca

@Sean_Fernyhough @JGrantGlover CAFE standards meant that SUVs and light trucks had lower efficiency regs than sedans and small cars. This+their higher prices makes them more profitable for automakers. Plus there's the whole (write off vehicles over 6k lb) IRS loophole that lots of people abuse.

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BeltwayMapMaker #СлаваУкраїні 🇺🇦@BeltwayMap·27 Ara

@pbgomez_ Which, to be clear, is still a fuckload for 11 individuals to have. But comparing this to GDP is dishonest. Its like someone comparing their 401k balance to your monthly paycheck.

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BeltwayMapMaker #СлаваУкраїні 🇺🇦@BeltwayMap·27 Ara

@pbgomez_ I agree generally, but this is an apples and oranges comparison. You're comparing wealth (a total accumulated over years) to GDP (total created in 1 year). For reference the wealth of the US is 160 Trillion, so this represents about 1% of US wealth

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BeltwayMapMaker #СлаваУкраїні 🇺🇦@BeltwayMap·20 Ara

@themanbearpigV2 @JakeSherman The filibuster means a law needs 60 votes in the senate. 99% of bills can't meet a 60 vote threshold. So these single issue bills get stapled on to "must-pass" funding bills or reconciliation bills as a way to get around that issue. Kill the filibuster we can have indiv. bills

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Chris | themanbearpig@themanbearpigV2·20 Ara

@JakeSherman What’s the backstory on why they don’t. Too complicated to get all the ducks in a row?

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Jake Sherman@JakeSherman·20 Ara

every speaker promises single subject bills. no one does it.

Thomas Massie@RepThomasMassie

This isn’t complicated. Separate the bills and vote on them individually. one vote on the clean CR one vote on the debt limit one vote on disaster relief one vote on farm bailouts Radical right? Individual bills for each issue.

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BeltwayMapMaker #СлаваУкраїні 🇺🇦@BeltwayMap·20 Ara

@sjw_sjw_and @JoeBobson123452 @Dddg53973400 @StatisticUrban If you want small, single issue bills, get rid of the fillibuster. The reason we have to do this shit is because everything needs 60 votes in the senate to pass. So anytime there is a "must-pass" bill, everyone gets a little treat so that it can get 60 votes.

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Mango (phd) 🐁@sjw_sjw_and·20 Ara

@JoeBobson123452 @Dddg53973400 @BeltwayMap @StatisticUrban Could have waited till next year... placing a 1500+ page document on the table that needs to be signed in 3 days or the government shuts down seems... Well it seems like something straight out of the expected swamp play book... it even included rat protection clauses in a dudget

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Hunter📈🌈📊@StatisticUrban·20 Ara

Honestly the height of midwittery. A lot of the first bill's length was things like tweaking healthcare policy to make it *more efficient*. On net, the second bill probably adds more to the debt!

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BeltwayMapMaker #СлаваУкраїні 🇺🇦@BeltwayMap·20 Ara

@sjw_sjw_and @StatisticUrban Right now federal law says that the land can only be used for stadiums. The transfer would allow the city government to build whatever thay want, new housing, parks, libraries, or a new stadium, but the bill for any construction would be paid by the city government, not the feds.

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BeltwayMapMaker #СлаваУкраїні 🇺🇦@BeltwayMap·20 Ara

@sjw_sjw_and @StatisticUrban It was not "building a new stadium", it was transferring the land of RFK stadium (which hasn't been used in 17 years and is literally falling to ruin) from the Feds to DC city government, so that the city government could do something with it.

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BeltwayMapMaker #СлаваУкраїні 🇺🇦@BeltwayMap·19 Ara

@ReubenR80027912 @ZAltschuler Being in office =/= working Working =/= being in office

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Reuben Rodriguez@ReubenR80027912·19 Ara

@ZAltschuler I mean isn’t in office Fed rates in DC even TODAY at like 20%?

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Reuben Rodriguez@ReubenR80027912·19 Ara

What’s crazy is that federal workers weren’t even in the office during Biden’s term Gov’t work, never the model of productivity, effectively did not happen during height of WFH 21-23 So there was no executive, no real work…but nothing bd happened! Lol

James Hohmann@jameshohmann

@AnnieLinskey @rebeccaballhaus @EmilyGlazer @siobhanehughes White House meetings would frequently be canceled. In 2021, a national security official explained to another aide why a POTUS meeting needed to be rescheduled. “He has good days and bad days, and today was a bad day so we’re going to address this tomorrow,” the aide said.

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BeltwayMapMaker #СлаваУкраїні 🇺🇦@BeltwayMap·16 Ara

@Will_Tanner_1 God this is stupid. The reason people dressed like this is because clothes were so expensive that most people only had one or two pairs of clothes. So those handful of outfits had to be nice. In 1901 people spent 15% of their income on clothes, even more before the indus. Revol.

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Will Tanner@Will_Tanner_1·16 Ara

I get that this is supposed to be a positive image showing American continuity, but really it shows how devastating to the national psyche the Depression and FDR were A quick 🧵👇

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BeltwayMapMaker #СлаваУкраїні 🇺🇦@BeltwayMap·6 Ara

@Blader838 @goldiegjohnson @MakeTexasBlue22 @allthingsHIG ??? Taxing the rich for Social Security the same way that the other 90% of the country are taxed is "stealing"? Lmao. Lmfao even. What a fucking bootlicker.

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タイラー@Blader838·6 Ara

@goldiegjohnson @MakeTexasBlue22 @allthingsHIG I'll probably never be near the cap, but removing it to effectively steal money from those better off doesn't exactly sound like a move that would work for very long

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TexasBlue@MakeTexasBlue22·6 Ara

So let me get this right, people pay for Social Security their entire lives through payroll taxes only for a South African billionaire immigrant to come along and tell those American citizens they aren't allowed to receive money from a system they paid into because he wants to be taxed less?

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BeltwayMapMaker #СлаваУкраїні 🇺🇦@BeltwayMap·28 Kas

@dorajfacundo Its also not even always true. On the CFPB's Open Banking rule, they're actually on the side of FinTechs against banks who are trying to create a closed financial data system. Saying "The CFPB just hates FinTech" is incredibly stupid"

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Jarod Facundo@dorajfacundo·27 Kas

He brings up fintechs as victims of the CFPB. Meanwhile, the collapse of Synapse earlier this year, a middleman platform for fintech neobanks, locked out 200k customers from their deposits.

Paul@WomanDefiner

Pt 2. Marc Goes through who has been effected by this and where this line of law and thinking came from. Joe slowly gets more and more shocked.

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Jarod Facundo@dorajfacundo·27 Kas

I have no clue what @pmarca is referring to bc literally just a few months ago at a FedSoc event, CFPB director Chopra warned the audience of Wall Street debanking conservatives without explanation.

Paul@WomanDefiner

Marc Andreesen on Elizabeth Warrens agency CFPB which has spent the last 4 years terrorizing people via debanking. This is going to be a 3 part thread.

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BeltwayMapMaker #СлаваУкраїні 🇺🇦@BeltwayMap·25 Kas

@ThaMob @texsurfin @KyleKulinski Yes there are exemptions, but the new tax law didn't expand those exemptions, it just raised the sales tax rate. Techically they removed exemptions by expanding the sales tax to include more digital products. There is no way to slice this that isnt a tax increase.

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The Eternal Inquirer@ThaMob·25 Kas

@BeltwayMap @texsurfin @KyleKulinski I read they have exemptions on sales tax for a few things that most low income ppl would need, does that factor in at all?

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Secular Talk ([email protected])@KyleKulinski·25 Kas

Republican ideology in a nutshell. Pretend to be for tax cuts for the working class then cut taxes for the wealthy and corporations and RAISE taxes on the working class.

The Associated Press@AP

Louisiana lawmakers pass income and corporate tax cuts, raising statewide sales tax to pay for it apnews.com/article/louisi…

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BeltwayMapMaker #СлаваУкраїні 🇺🇦@BeltwayMap·25 Kas

@ThaMob @texsurfin @KyleKulinski Lowering a progressive form of taxation (income taxes) and offestting it with a regressive form of taxation (sales taxes) is literally shifting the tax load from the wealthy onto poor people. All you've changed is the tax type.

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The Eternal Inquirer@ThaMob·25 Kas

@BeltwayMap @texsurfin @KyleKulinski If they are cutting taxes on income, wouldn't that give the poor ppl more money to spend or stash away like a dragon?

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BeltwayMapMaker #СлаваУкраїні 🇺🇦@BeltwayMap·25 Kas

@texsurfin @KyleKulinski Who is more affected by a consumption tax: A. A poor person who has to spend every single dollar they make to make ends meet B. A rich person who spends 50% of their income on fast cars and trips to Cabo, while stashing the rest away in accounts like a dragon. Show your work.

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Danny Shannon, PE@texsurfin·25 Kas

@KyleKulinski Consumption tax is the way to go.

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BeltwayMapMaker #СлаваУкраїні 🇺🇦@BeltwayMap·24 Kas

@SteveRo83760489 @quantian1 These contributions are still "money paid to an individual" and under your wording would be taxed. Literally everything in your posts has stuff like this. And every carveout niche that you answer with is another reason the tax code exists.

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BeltwayMapMaker #СлаваУкраїні 🇺🇦@BeltwayMap·24 Kas

@SteveRo83760489 @quantian1 In addition to the other commenters questions about food, what about pre-tax contributions? Our entire retirement and investment system is built on 401ks, HSAs, and similar investment vehicles which deduct from your income. The tax code has hundreds of pages on all these cases.

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Quantіan@quantian1·24 Kas

Obviously Chamath knows this, but US tax rates already fit on one page of simple English. The other 6999 pages enumerate every edge case of what counts as income and what doesn’t and what the deductions are, which you still need to define for a flat tax!

Chamath Palihapitiya@chamath

Replace the US Federal Tax Code's 7000 pages and millions of words with a simple flat tax. It could fit into a few pages of simple english, make paying taxes simple and enforcement even simpler.

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BeltwayMapMaker #СлаваУкраїні 🇺🇦@BeltwayMap·22 Kas

@realdrewshirley @mattyglesias No, they dont. Uncap the income limit for the payroll tax gets us a lot of the way there. Additionally, congress could allow the SS trust to invest some funds in securities to get a better return.

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Drew Shirley Law@drewshirleylaw·22 Kas

@mattyglesias Mr. Yglesias, you seem a decent fellow. You recognize, do you not, that Social Security will collapse in its current configuration? Everyone blanches at any suggestion of cuts, but don’t they have to be done sooner or later?

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BeltwayMapMaker #СлаваУкраїні 🇺🇦@BeltwayMap·21 Kas

@wordsandsense @MDP03212219 @mattyglesias That being said, I believe the most common GS is around 10 or 11, which is about 70k or 80k with DC locality. Thats certainly higher than the median income, but a GS 11 job requires a Bachelors and usually a Masters. The average salary for someone with a Bachelors only is 80k.

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Bri@wordsandsense·21 Kas

@MDP03212219 @mattyglesias What exactly do you think federal employees are being paid? Even the absolute highest gs-15 is only being paid a 160k base rate. You'd make more money as an accountant lmao

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