Mark

the older i get the heller the no

Inequality is only dangerous because leftists use it to fuel envy and hatred of successful people. It's a very immature response to the reality that results will always be unequal. “If you cannot achieve equality of performance among people born to the same parents and raised under the same roof, how realistic is it to expect to achieve it across broader and deeper social divisions?” — Thomas Sowell

The most dangerous thing for a society isn’t inequality. It’s when the productive, ambitious, innovative and skilled increasingly decide the system is no longer worth investing in. When entrepreneurs, engineers, doctors, and taxpayers leave, and young talent gives up or emigrates... You don’t get more social justice. You get a shrinking productive base forced to support a growing dependent system. Once a country loses value creators faster than it attracts them, decline becomes mathematically unavoidable. The real question is: Why are so many of the most productive and successful people across Europe feeling alienated from the societies they built? Too much taxation, envy, bureaucracy, cultural hostility to success, broken incentives, massive government expansion, or something deeper?

@Alexoo4 @scottndricks @CNBC How much tax has Elon Musk personally paid? Do you even know?

@scottndricks @CNBC 😏

Jeff Bezos: "If I do my job right, the value to society and civilization from my for-profit companies will be much, much larger than the good that I do with my charitable giving."

@Alexoo4 @CNBC That means that you want tax cuts for billionaires. I agree!

@CNBC All we want from billionaires is for you to pay your fair share of taxes. That's it.

@TomSteyer How is encouraging billionaires to move to another state going to help? 🤔

This is bullshit. I promise you. Tax billionaires. Invest in schools.

@HardPass4 @BeksWineWhiskey The obesity rate is highest among the poor anyway.

Me: suggest walking and water instead of lunch Them: WHY DO YOU WANT POOR PEOPLE TO DIE

@StatewireX @MattWalshBlog You had me at savage spending cuts.

@MattWalshBlog Without income tax, funding today's $6.8T+ federal budget would demand crushing 30%+ national sales taxes, sky-high tariffs, or savage spending cuts.

I agree. Also the top half should pay zero income tax.

@konquistador33 @MatrixMysteries Why should taxpayers have to foot the bill for people who borrow irresponsibly? 🤔

@MatrixMysteries Biden was trying to cancel student debt and MAGA idiots had strokes for even trying to do that.

An American checks her student loans. She borrowed $49,548.74. After 120 payments, she’s paid $25,558.36. Her current balance? $50,121.33. After PAYING $25k… she now owes MORE than she originally borrowed. This isn’t aid — it’s legalized USURY.

@MatrixMysteries Maybe if her payments exceeded the interest, her principal would actually decrease. It's just crazy enough to work! 😆

@BowTiedBroke What do you propose replacing property taxes with? I get that you don't like paying property taxes, but they are extremely efficient in terms of economic growth (i.e. other forms of taxation reduce economic growth more). So what's the alternative? Sales tax? Income tax?

Paid my property tax bill. Doubled in past 5 yrs. Thought about the “Wealth Tax” (aka unrealized cap gains tax) that some senators are proposing. Then I thought “Heck, we already have that. It’s called property tax” Buy a property for $100K, it appreciates to $300K in 5-10 yrs, your state/county reappraises it and you owe higher taxes on something you haven’t sold. To realize that gain you’d have to sell it (which, you’ll be taxed on that as well if you are outside the exclusion amount or rules). But, as it stands, even if you don’t sell and realize that gain, we’re already paying higher taxes based on our net worth in the form of property taxation.

@TheFP Republicans have lost their way.

The president proved more powerful than the right-wing antisemites, but there’s no telling what will happen after 2028, writes Seth Mandel. thefp.com/p/thomas-massi…

If this isn’t impressive, I don’t know what else is.

@DelusionPosting Bruce Wayne would have moved to Florida or Texas. 😆

@cboyack "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others."

Notice that the loudest advocates for "the common good" always seem to end up uncommonly wealthy and powerful.

In America, wealth taxes mean wealth flight ft.com/content/3423cb… via @ft

As Thomas Sowell once wrote: “Some ideas sound so plausible that they can fail nine times in a row and still be believed the tenth time. Other ideas sound so implausible that they can succeed nine times in a row and still not be believed the tenth time. Government controls in the economy are among the first kinds of ideas and the operation of a free market are among the second kind.”

@chorizoandbeer @stevemagness Yes, and then he celebrated again, like an idiot.

@MarkInvicta @stevemagness He was given a warning after celebrating setting a state record. Refs gone wild.

This is ridiculous. And track and field gives their officials too much power. Imagine if an NFL or NBA ref could negate all points scored in the last 10 minutes of play off a single infraction. That's essentially what we do in track. There are no minor penalties. It's dumb.

@KalshiFB 1999 St. Louis Rams. Going from 4-12 to Super Bowl champions the next season is insane.

Name an NFL season where the eventual champion was nobody's preseason pick.

@engineers_feed And Laika died after a few hours.

Space fact: The first living mammal to go into space was a dog named “Laika” from Russia.