@sofiasymondsovo DOGE was sold as policy. Like most campaign promises, it was merely a lie
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Rick Rule
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Rick Rule
@RealRickRule
President and CEO, Rule Investment Media LLC Views expressed are my own. Investing in natural resources and conventional financial services
Anacortes, WA Katılım Ocak 2017
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@RealRickRule Debt is policy. DOGE is sentiment. Mixing them doesn’t answer either question.
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Ah, Mr. President, the debt?
Sir, the debt?
DOGE, Sir, DOGE?
David Stockman@DA_Stockman
Here was delusional in October 2025 when he posted this nonsense, and is far more so now. The disease is apparently progressive and accelerating.
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Even adjusted for inflation, Trump’s increase in the national debt in his first 14 months of this presidency is unprecedented. Stupefying.
TIME@TIME
Since the President’s inauguration last year, national debt has climbed by around $2.8 trillion. time.com/article/2026/0…
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Adam Taggart sums it up well, assuming the indebted states can't force the solvent states to fund them, federally
Adam Taggart@adamtaggart
This is federalism as intended Let states chart their own course. Over time, the populace will move to the states that best take care of their interests. In short, the best models win
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@ElonMuskOx11 My preference is to make the left leave. The sailors should stay on the ship, and make the rats exit
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Ferguson, bribing us, with a bit of our own money
Travis Couture@TravisSCouture
Bob Ferguson: 1. signs $16B+ in tax increases over his first two years, the largest in state history 2. gives a tiny shred of that back to make sure you have tax free deodorant, and some micro businesses pay a bit less in taxes, while the rest pay tons more. 3. claims large tax cuts, but what really happened is he emptied your wallet, handed you the spare change, and told you to say thank you.
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Now, let's consider, why is Washington Gas so expensive, when the refineries are in Washington, and the market is larger, and more dense?
Future 42@future42org
On this Gas Price Friday... While the National Average has gone up $0.28 from last week; the PNW has shot up 40 cents with Washington state passing $5 a gallon..and still going. Washington's high gas and climate taxes continue to contribute over $1 per gallon, putting us #2 most expensive gas in the country. Gasoline Washington Average: $5.14 National Average: $3.88 Difference: $1.26 WA State Taxes Gas Tax: $0.554 Climate Tax: $0.52 Total gas taxes: $1.07 Source: gasprices.aaa.com/state-gas-pric…
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@RealRickRule Not at all. I've just done my tours in corporate America.
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We need to ask ourselves, " do we want the most productive, the most highly compensated among us"?
Vijay@VijayInWA
Jon Schneider, the Seahawks General Manager, understands what Washington's legislature does not: WA not having an income tax was one of our most powerful comparative advantages in attracting talent to our state from places like California and New York. That advantage is gone.
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@realalexwiggin Have you been to China? I first went in 1990. The rise in material living standards has been amazing.
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@RealRickRule How do you define rising material living standards? For whom?
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hmm, which country is socialist? Really!
Which one has rising material living standards?
Is there any correlation?
André D. Thess@AndreThess
Staatsquote Deutschland: 50% Tendenz steigend Staatsquote China: 33%
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@OctopusIllusion I would prefer the money be left in the pockets of those who earned it, to allocate as they decide.
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@RealRickRule You think Americans would prefer to bomb Iran versus spending less on transportation?
Haha no
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And if we left that $200,000,000,.000 in the pockets of the folks who earned it, who knows what they might prefer to fund?
Chris 🦝@TrashPanda08x
For $200bn you could fund all these rail projects btw. But instead we choose to bomb children
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@azothgold Elections are indeed advanced auctions of stolen property, believe me, I would like nothing more than a government that had very little to decide, and no power to allocate capital, to anyone's supposed benefit
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@RealRickRule Obviously the mega wealthy feel entitled to run the government. And do. Have you considered politics? You'd be far more qualified. And I'm libertarian btw, just saying socialism makes sense as a response to crony capitalism.
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@559_den55412 What those people do with their capital is your right to dictate? Are you an aspiring slave master?
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@RealRickRule Rick i am not a communist but rich bastards who have personal Wealth the Size of GDP of a small country should be taxed the Hell out of. And „fleeing the country should be texed -50% of all wealthe above 50-Mil“
The absolute Moronical idea 💡 of have 20-Billion and not pay tax
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No mystery, money goes where it is well treated
PNW Conservative@PNWConservative
People don’t want to be punished for success. It is not wrong to want to preserve your wealth.
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@timecooke many of us have intellectual capital, which is very mobile.
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@azothgold We do live in a crony capitalist system, despite the corruption inherent in a highly politicized culture, delivering value to customers is the surest means of obtaining material success
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@RealRickRule We live in a crony capitalist system. High compensation does NOT fairly scale w/ social worth. Yes, merit is real. Yes there is correlation. And YES, socialism is the normal response to corrupt capitalism. Don't complain about it until you fix the underlying issue.
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@RealRickRule Don't conflate "highly compensated" with "productive." In the US, the better pairing would be "highly compensated" & "corrupt."
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