Connor Masterson

@LoganARobison 1. You can’t get elected taking away entitlements. 2. No incentive to stop spending - one could argue that there is a counter incentive due to point 1.

Explain it to me like I’m 5 years old. Why is no one in our government interested in fixing this? Is it not that big of a deal and I should just stop worrying about it?

@SenWarren @friedberg

Donald Trump is right about this: Eliminate the debt limit—its only real function is to threaten an economic crisis. I'm ready to work with both Democratic and Republican Senators to immediately scrap the debt ceiling and protect the economy.

@AdtechGod In @AdtechGod we trust!

@MiamiMasterson is looking for some help here.

@mrjordanbentley Would love that! Follow so I can send a DM :)

@MiamiMasterson We can help with Audio. Shoot me a DM

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@AdtechGod any ideas?

@BenSharf Lmk when you start running Polytopia 👀

Met a founder today at a conference who started telling me how he rips Catan games on the iPhone for hours every day so I’m back in the arena. Lmk if you wanna play.

Prediction: OpenAI and/or Anthropic valuation will fall significantly. They backed themselves into a corner. Only chance of surviving current valuations: regulatory capture, inflation, unlock of new critical tech innovation. LLMs ain’t enough

Those who can, do. Those who can’t, teach. Those who can’t teach, become “journalists”.

Capitalism once again doing more than governments to help citizens.

If you've spent half your life not knowing what the sunk-cost fallacy is, it's probably not worth learning it now.

The token arbitrage between Subscription vs API still feels so high. As a result, so many interesting tools feel inaccessible as one needs to factor in additional token cost as well as that tool cost. I’ve heard how much people spend to deploy a new feature and it’s nauseating.

Here is another way to frame exit tax: You need to pay to leave your country and they get to name the price. You are a slave to your government.

@pitdesi While I understand your point, exit taxes reduce human choice. Governments should be in the business of serving citizens, not the other way around. What prevents a country from raising an exit tax to 100% of value? Tax seems reasonable until governments get out of control.

Exit taxes are great, actually… and the alternative is insane. No exit tax means anyone with huge paper gains get an obvious playbook: Build wealth in a country. Use its talent, capital, courts, customers, universities, and infrastructure. Let the gains compound untaxed. Then leave right before liquidity and sell in Dubai, Monaco or Singapore. Would be a terrible loophole that would drive away talented people. Canada is just saying: you built unrealized gains while a Canadian tax resident, you cannot erase that tax claim by changing your address before selling. That is good policy! If the US taxed purely by residence and had no exit tax, the optimal strategy for the Cursor founders right now would be obvious: move to Singapore. They could save billions by doing so and it would be bad for America. The tax code would be begging them to do it. They would almost be idiots not to. That is exactly the kind of dumb incentive exit taxes are meant to prevent. Canada’s version is not perfect, but it has a good feature- you don’t owe the tax until you actually sell the asset. You can defer payment with no penalty when you leave. You just cannot take all the unrealized gains with you and pretend the old tax base never existed. IMO Gad should quit whining.

Elmo just wants to set the record straight... ❤️❤️ GO TEAM USA! ⚽

An exit tax is unconstitutional and should be illegal. Unfortunately, America also enforces an exit tax…

This single tweet cost California hundreds of billions of dollars in taxes, revenue, and jobs:

Over 4000 workers just became millionaires by owning the means of production and the socialists are pissed

The sheer scale of a trillion dollars can be hard to comprehend. Let me put it in perspective. You would be able to buy 42 miles of high speed rail in California with that much money.