Without IRS

@skumWgmi Really, who works for $7.27 an hour?

Quick math: $7.27 = federal minimum wage × 40 hours × 52 weeks = $15,080/year Federal poverty line for a single adult: $14,580 So if you work full time at minimum wage you make... $500 above the poverty line. Before taxes. Before rent. Before anything. And they say the system rewards hard work. it rewards something. Not sure it's that.

@ZoeGutier @Contexto_Visual Yeah! Until you need a hospital and have no money of the realm.

Qué gran lección para recordar lo desconectados que vivimos a veces entre tantas pantallas y comodidades artificiales. Esta historia demuestra a la perfección que la verdadera riqueza no se mide por lo que acumulas en el bolsillo, sino por la capacidad de disfrutar de la vida en su estado más puro y libre.

Un padre rico, queriendo que su hijo entendiera lo que significa ser pobre, lo llevó a pasar unos días con una familia campesina. El niño pasó 3 días y 3 noches en el campo. De regreso a la ciudad, todavía dentro del auto, su padre le preguntó: —¿Y qué te pareció la experiencia? —Muy buena —respondió el niño. —¿Aprendiste algo? Que nosotros tenemos un perro y ellos tienen cuatro. Que nosotros tenemos una piscina con agua tratada que llega hasta el fondo del jardín. Ellos tienen un río con agua cristalina, peces y muchas otras cosas buenas. Que nosotros tenemos luces eléctricas en el jardín, pero ellos tienen las estrellas y la luna para iluminarlos. Que nuestro jardín termina en una pared. El de ellos llega hasta el horizonte. Que nosotros compramos la comida; ellos la cultivan, la cosechan y la cocinan. Que nosotros escuchamos CDs… Ellos escuchan una sinfonía constante de loros, grillos y otros animales… todo eso acompañado, a veces, por el canto de algún vecino trabajando la tierra. Que nosotros usamos microondas. Lo que ellos cocinan tiene sabor a fuego lento. Que nosotros vivimos rodeados de cercas y alarmas para protegernos… Ellos viven con las puertas abiertas, protegidos por la amistad de sus vecinos. Que nosotros vivimos conectados al teléfono, a la computadora y a la televisión. Ellos están conectados con la vida, el cielo, el sol, el agua, los campos, los animales, sus sombras y sus familias. El padre quedó profundamente impresionado por lo que dijo su hijo. Finalmente, el niño concluyó: —Gracias por enseñarme lo pobres que somos. Cada día nos volvemos más pobres porque ya no miramos la naturaleza. Esa es la pobreza más triste de todas:tenerlo todo… pero ya no sentir nada. Porque hay personas con muy poco dinero que todavía cenan juntas, miran el cielo, escuchan a los pájaros y se sienten en paz. Y hay otras rodeadas de lujo, pantallas y comodidades… que hace años no sienten un abrazo sincero ni pueden dormir tranquilos. La verdadera riqueza nunca estuvo en lo que guardas en la cuenta bancaria.Siempre estuvo en lo que todavía puede llenar tu corazón sin necesidad de comprarlo.

@Contexto_Visual Value is subjective and individually determined.

@DearGozde I found the same thing in the bottom of a jar of peanut butter buried under a totem pole in the Arctic permafrost. Had to lick it clean.

Oğlumun yatağının altında... Bunu buldum ve donup kaldım. Hâlâ ne olduğunu bilmiyorum. Bir fikriniz var mı? 👇

It sure does. Every Federal Reserve Note is an obligation of the United States government and they are issued into circulation in connection to debt instruments (bonds) which "back" them or which they represent. Every Federal Reserve Note in circulation is an evidence of, a fractionalization of, hypothecated debt.

@NotYerSlave @BladeoftheS No. That's not how fiat currency works.

134 years ago this cartoon was drawn, and in 134 years the problem has only gotten worse.

@johnsmith168944 @ClimateWarrior7 I farted at the same time. Give me some credit too.

@ClimateWarrior7 This is happening because I opened a can of Coke and released CO2 destroying the planet.

Temperatures have risen 20 degrees in the past 4 months where I am. What do climate change deniers say to this? They have no explanation.

@kwoods81 @ClimateWarrior7 Come on now. With the technology we have at hand today, there has to be a way to make that image look more misleadingly hot. Good job but make it look even hotter.

Nobody is denying that the climate is changing. It’s the blame that we have a problem with. You’re more than welcome to use this pic, because it probably suits the narrative you’re running with. The climate will change for the next year, decade, century and millennia thereafter. And FYI, the temperature has changed because we’ve gone from winter, to spring, into summer. It’s called the 4 seasons lad. It’s fucking Summertime, and in the summer it gets pretty hot. Enjoy the lovely UK weather, because next week it’ll be shit again. ✌🏻

@native_history_ If you live your life influenced by what others think or say, your freedoms are severely limited by your own mind. If you want to prepare and offer "traditional foods" just do it and stop trying to making an issue out of nothing.

A Native American student wants to bring traditional food for a school culture day. Some students love the idea. Others say: 📚 “School food rules should be the same for everyone.” Family says: 🪶 “Food is part of our culture.” For many Native communities, traditional food is more than a meal… It represents history. Family. Identity. Now imagine… Your culture has a special food tradition. But someone says: “Leave it at home.” Would that feel fair? So here’s the question 👇 Should Native American students be allowed to share traditional foods during school cultural events?

@RossyPrime Where is your empirical data to support your claim?

Why are men so quick to reject trans women? What’s your honest answer to this? 👀

@omgsidewalks I am hoping a capitalist soon markets dipshit remover. A spray and gone away type would be very useful.

Capitalism is only just a couple of hundred years old. Humans have not been paying to live or survive on this planet for thousands of years. Please understand this.

Vote? A vote is not needed. The parties to every transaction choose what object shall serve in representation of money for each individual transaction. That the dominant choice is made sub rosa and for Federal Reserve Bank products "as money" does not make that choice mandatory; for it is not. Nowhere in American jurisprudence or Federal Reserve Bank expressed policy is a Federal Reserve Bank product defined as being money. Money does not exist though nearly anything may be selected from the materials of the planet to serve as tokens in representation of the concept of money or "as money" as the Treasurer of the United States refers to it. No vote ever was needed by the people though one was taken within Congress for the purpose of the U.S. government adopting the Federal Reserve Bank privately owned products for use as one of the items accepted by the government in discharge of debt by passing legal tender in lieu of "lawful money". For starters, see 12 U.S. Code section 411. No human being is obligated to tender or accept any particular specie or specified object otherwise as money except when a dominant second party to a transaction specified a particular specie and buyer has no alternative but to do business with them.

@NotYerSlave @BladeoftheS I'm don't remember a vote on that. Are you sure it was the People's choice?

@Conn4Patrick @morrismd1918 @beauhightowerdn Yes, I will boycott private jets too! Anything else ? Will that fix whatever problem someone was bitching about?

@NotYerSlave @morrismd1918 @beauhightowerdn All that and private jets!!! Might as well go for broke!!

Crude oil is 90 a barrel yet we're paying 5 bucks a gallon. Someone please explain

@jtrumpio @BroadStreetOil @beauhightowerdn I mean what I said. I am not aware of the full range of fuel use tax distribution, if they include other than roadway related expenditures, are you? Can you list the factual end uses to which fuel taxes are put for any or several states?

@NotYerSlave @BroadStreetOil @beauhightowerdn I think you mean how do we fund the things the road taxes currently fund that aren’t the roads.

@FractalBreak2 @therealaskilroy @kirawontmiss Restaurant is not stealing. Wait staff knows terms before taking the job. Customer also knows typical expectations of dining out costs. Personal behavior determines outcome and wait staff has no guarantee a tip will be forthcoming.

@NotYerSlave @therealaskilroy @kirawontmiss … I can’t tell if your messing with me or legitimately agreeing with me.

tipping culture is getting ridiculous

@ivShubham_INN Goodyear of India soon to buy those guys out and discontinue their product in favor of marketing pneumatic tires on steel wheels labeling that acquisition and merger as Goodyear's "Save the Babla Trees Green Initiative."

Giant Babla Tree Turned into a Wooden Wheel | Start to Finish Full Process. 😱

@csdavis81 @FLCons @TheLucyShow1 She might have lived longer had she chosen the performance name of Natalie Woodn't. Very sad. If she had been butt ugly, would folks have been as upset or remember as well?

@FLCons @TheLucyShow1 No way that’s Liz Taylor!

Many people forget that this incredible cutie was a child star before her adult acting career brought her much attention and notoriety! Her famous husband, she actually married twice! Do you know this actress?

@Alan_Michaels_ @FLCons Please, let's not go overboard with this! Chill out with a few sleeping pills and a couple of drinks. Float the idea again in the morning.

@FLCons The kind of Wood that doesn't float. (Sorry ... too soon?)

@morrismd1918 @Conn4Patrick @beauhightowerdn Yes.! I am boycotting expensive houses and high rent apartments. Also yachts, cruises and escorts That'll teach 'em.

@Conn4Patrick @beauhightowerdn Ditto expensive houses and high rent apartments.

@morrismd1918 @beauhightowerdn A piece of ass costs $125 on the street but almost free at home. Someone please explain.

@beauhightowerdn A Coors Light costs $1.33 at the grocery but $12.00 at the ball park. Someone please explain.

@BroadStreetOil @beauhightowerdn Fuel taxes are excise taxes earmarked for road improvement, or they were at one point. Eliminate the fuel use tax and the revenue for highway fund has to come from elsewhere else. What do you propose will be that source?

@beauhightowerdn Sure stop fucking penalizing refineries with RIN obligations, remove all fuel taxes, and take the target off the oil industries back and see how fast you see pump prices drop