Sean D Knight

Over ten years, I’ve had my YouTube channel for over ten years and always did my best not to violate the terms and conditions. But, without warning, @YouTube just deleted my channel. Over 400 videos gone. Podcast recordings gone. So much work lost. @YouTubeCreators

Sen. Andy Kim gets his eyes washed out by “medics” after getting between clashing federal agents and far left agitators blocking the entrance to Delaney Hall immigration detention center in NJ

INBOX: Blizzard (@Blizzard_Ent), which is owned by @Microsoft, penalized a gamer who named one of his characters "JDVANCE" after he was mass-reported by other players. They are claiming it violated "Vulgarity" and "Hate Speech" code of conduct policies. Insanity Why is the VP “hate speech” @microsoft? I bet if it said Biden, it would be fine…

There's a federal tax law that lets you rent your own house to your own business for $5,000 a day The business deducts the rent as an expense You receive the rent personally as tax-free income This is fully legal under IRC Section 280A(g) and every smart business owner in america uses it It's called the Augusta Rule and 90% of business owners have never heard of it Internal Revenue Code Section 280A(g), commonly called the "Augusta Rule," allows a homeowner to rent their personal residence for up to 14 days per year and receive the rental income completely tax-free. The rental income does not need to be reported as income on your personal tax return The provision was originally written to protect homeowners in Augusta, Georgia who rent their homes to spectators during the annual Masters Tournament. The IRS recognized that 14 days a year of rental income shouldn't trigger reporting requirements for an otherwise personal residence. The rule applies nationwide to anyone who rents their residence under 14 days Critical mechanic for business owners: If you own a business (LLC, S-Corp, C-Corp), the business can rent your personal residence for meetings, events, retreats, or any legitimate business purpose. The business pays you market-rate rent. The business deducts the rent as a business expense (reducing the business's taxable income). You receive the rent personally tax-free under Section 280A(g) Result: Business's taxable income: reduced by the amount of rent paid Your personal taxable income: not increased (rent under Section 280A(g)) Net effect: cash moves from business to your personal account, fully tax-deductible on one side and fully tax-free on the other This is a tax-arbitrage between the business entity and the individual that the tax code explicitly permits The math: Suppose your business is an S-Corp with $300,000 in annual taxable income. Your business is taxed at the corporate level (or flows through to you at personal rates depending on structure) Without the Augusta Rule: business pays roughly $90,000-$120,000 in combined taxes on the $300K (depending on state and structure) With the Augusta Rule: business rents your home for 14 days at $2,500/day = $35,000 in rent Business taxable income reduces from $300,000 to $265,000 Tax savings on the $35,000 expense: roughly $10,500-$14,000 (at 30-40% effective business tax rate) Personal income from $35,000 rent received: $0 (tax-free under 280A(g)) Net effect: $10,500-$14,000 in actual cash savings per year, just for renting your own house to your own business for 14 days What is "market rate" rent: The IRS requires the rental to be at a "fair market rate" for similar properties in your area. You can't rent your $400K home for $50,000/day. You also don't need to charge $200/day for a $2M property Realistic market rates for short-term residential business rentals: Modest home (under $400K): $400-$800/day Mid-range home ($400K-$1M): $1,000-$2,500/day Luxury home ($1M-$3M): $2,500-$5,000/day High-end estate ($3M+): $5,000-$15,000+/day You're typically renting your home for "executive retreats," "client meetings," "strategic planning sessions," "board meetings," etc. Market rate is what similar properties would charge as event venues or short-term executive rentals How to support the market rate: Get 3-5 comparable rental quotes from event venues, AirBnB executive rentals, or boutique meeting spaces in your area Document the comparable rates in your business records Use the median or 75th percentile rate, not the highest If you can document that comparable executive retreat venues in your area rent for $3,000-$5,000/day, charging $3,500/day to your business is defensible The execution: Step 1: write a rental agreement between your business and you personally The agreement should specify: Dates of the rental (14 specific days per year max) Rental rate per day Purpose of the rental (business meeting, retreat, client event, strategic planning, etc.) Standard rental terms (similar to commercial rental agreements) Step 2: have a legitimate business purpose for each day of rental Quarterly executive retreats (4 days/yr) Annual strategic planning summit (3 days/yr) Client appreciation event (2 days/yr) Board meetings (3 days/yr) Investor presentations (2 days/yr) = 14 days/yr at $3,000/day = $42,000 in tax-free transfer Step 3: document the business purpose with meeting minutes, agendas, attendee lists, and photos Step 4: the business issues a 1099-MISC to you for the rental at year-end Step 5: you report the rental on Schedule E of your personal tax return, then claim the Section 280A(g) exclusion (under 14 days = $0 reportable income) Step 6: the business deducts the rent as an expense on the business tax return Documentation requirements: The IRS occasionally audits Augusta Rule claims because some taxpayers abuse the provision (renting at inflated rates, claiming days without legitimate business purpose, etc.). To survive audit: Maintain calendar evidence of the 14 days Maintain meeting agendas and minutes Maintain attendee lists (employees, contractors, clients) Maintain photos of the events Have a written rental agreement Have documentation of market rates If you can produce all of this, the IRS audit defense is straightforward The tax savings at scale: Small business with $200K profit, rents at $1,500/day for 14 days: Annual rent: $21,000 Tax savings at 35% effective rate: $7,350 Tax-free personal income: $21,000 Mid-size business with $500K profit, rents at $3,000/day for 14 days: Annual rent: $42,000 Tax savings at 40% effective rate: $16,800 Tax-free personal income: $42,000 Large business with $2M profit, rents at $5,000/day for 14 days: Annual rent: $70,000 Tax savings at 45% effective rate: $31,500 Tax-free personal income: $70,000 The savings scale linearly with the business size up to the 14-day limit. At the $5,000/day rate for 14 days ($70K), most business owners hit the practical ceiling Compounding effect over time: Using the Augusta Rule every year for 20 years on a mid-size business: Annual tax savings: $16,800 Total over 20 years: $336,000 The Augusta Rule alone produces a third of a million dollars in extra wealth over a 20-year career for a single business owner Other tax provisions stack with this: Section 179: immediate expensing of equipment and vehicles purchased (up to $1.16M in 2024) Bonus depreciation: 60-100% accelerated depreciation on assets QBI deduction (Section 199A): 20% deduction on qualified business income Section 121 home sale exclusion: $250K-$500K of profit on personal residence sale, tax-free Health Savings Account: $4,150-$8,300 in pre-tax contributions, grows tax-free, withdrawn tax-free for medical A business owner stacking all these provisions properly pays an effective tax rate of 12-18%. The same business owner without sophistication pays 28-35% The difference is roughly $40K-$80K per year in saved tax. Over a 30-year career: $1.2M-$2.4M in extra net worth The Augusta Rule is just one of about a dozen highly-leveraged tax provisions that ordinary tax filers never hear about because they're operating in W-2 reality. Every business owner with sophistication uses these provisions. Their accountants know about them. Their tax attorneys know about them. The IRS published them in the tax code The middle-class American working a W-2 job has access to ZERO of these provisions. The W-2 employee can deduct standard items (mortgage interest, charitable giving, state and local taxes) but cannot: Deduct vehicle expenses (no Section 179) Deduct rental income from personal residence to employer (no 280A(g)) Get QBI deduction (W-2 income doesn't qualify) Deduct home office (since 2017 W-2 employees lost this) Strategic planning of capital gains (income is fixed by employer) Almost everything that lets the wealthy reduce taxes requires you to be a business owner (or capital owner). The W-2 path categorically excludes you from the entire tax optimization layer This is by design. The tax code rewards capital, business ownership, and asset accumulation. It punishes labor. The reward is approximately 20-30% lower effective tax rates for business owners using sophisticated strategies vs W-2 earners The Augusta Rule is one of the simplest, lowest-effort tax savings available. Cost to implement: zero (if you already own a home and run a business). Time: maybe 4 hours per year for documentation. Annual savings: $7,000-$31,500 Most American business owners don't use the Augusta Rule. They don't know it exists. Their accountants might mention it once but never set up the structure. The provision sits in the tax code from 1976 waiting for someone to invoke it You can be that someone. You need a home, a business, and 4 hours of paperwork per year (if you want to fix your credit and qualify for the 0% APR business credit that helps you build the business that uses the Augusta Rule. link in bio)

Memorial Day weekend calls for picnics 🧺 One Hundred Picnic Suggestions (1915) contains ideas both traditional and… questionable to modern tastes before you pack your picnic basket: chicken salad, roast beef sandwiches 🥪, eggs in aspic jelly 🥚, and… tongue salad 👅🥗?! Check out this public domain culinary curiosity in our collections ⤵️ archive.org/details/onehun… #MemorialDay #picnic #cookbooks #vintagecookbooks

@reidhoffman Epstein hounded me relentlessly to go to his pedo island and I always declined. Not you though. You actually went. What “gifts” did you bring to Epstein when you went to pedo island?

🚨 JUST IN: Trump House owner Kerry Sheron passes away at 69 years old after being brutally and violently attacked by a psychopath Sheron — an Army Veteran — was KNOWN in the San Diego community for his patriot, pro-Trump property. He was attacked outside the home The violence has to stop. Rest in peace, Kerry 🙏🏻 Give his killer capital punishment.

China Just Admitted Its Population Collapse Is Now Irreversible. 33 Million Chinese men will never find a wife and it's too late to fix. China’s marriage rate just collapsed to levels that make recovery nearly impossible. In Q1 2026, China recorded only 1.69 million marriages, down 6.24% from last year and less than half the level of 2017. Behind the numbers lies a terrifying reality: 33 million more men than women, a shrinking young population, sky-high housing costs, youth unemployment, and a growing “lying flat” generation that has simply given up on the old life script. This is a structural demographic crisis decades in the making and it is already too late for China to reverse. In this video, I break down the 6 major factors destroying China’s marriage system and what it means for China’s future.

The House voted 217-198 to PASS a bill banning schools from secretly changing a child's gender, pronouns, or name at school without parental consent. 198 Democrats voted AGAINST it. Democrats want to secretly trans your kids.

Today, the City of Minneapolis wants to celebrate George Floyd instead of Memorial Day. In fact, they've failed to honor Memorial Day for years. All their posts on Memorial Day are just to remind people that the offices are closed. A violent career criminal who overdosed on fentanyl and held up a pregnant woman at gunpoint vs honoring brave service members who gave their lives for our country. Minneapolis is a FAILED city. Tampon Tim is a DISGRACE

Leftist fake news writers @Kristen_Taketa and @kellylynndavis at @sdut used their own biases to write a story linking the President to the mosque shooting in San Diego. They misinform readers by not disclosing that the manifestos left behind by the teen shooters, who were Latino and white, also urged for the president to be assassinated. These nutters likely agree with that sentiment. And if Trump's rhetoric is important for context, why did the writers leave out the Islamic Center of San Diego's ties to 9/11 Muslim hijackers and at least one of the victims openly expressing support for the Holocaust and Hitler?

Protestors outside Delaney Hall NJ chatting "Let Sherrill In" Be mindful, the folks she is surrounding herself with right now are socialists that were literally blocking police cars just hours ago. They want illegals that aren't supposed to be here, & allowed in, released

Participant in the pro-Hamas flotilla admits true goal: confrontation with Israel, not aid Rudy Martinez, a well-known anti-Semite and open Hamas supporter, has admitted that the so-called “Global Sumud Flotilla” was never primarily about delivering humanitarian aid to Gaza. In a video, published by the nycpym account on Instagram, Martinez stated: “I feel like there’s a lot of misnarration in the media that this is some sort of humanitarian aid mission […] I feel like directly confronting the Israeli occupation forces at sea as we try to break this 20-year genocidal siege is [the real goal].” For context on Rudi Martinez. This is the same person who in 2023 openly celebrated the October 7 Hamas massacre against Israeli civilians, calling it: “One of the greatest days of my life.” (second video).

🚨 IT'S OFFICIAL: Tina Peters will be RELEASED from prison in 7 DAYS after massive pressure from President Trump ALMOST THERE! 🇺🇸 She's entitled to MASSIVE damages after her rights were violated. TRUMP: "She caught people cheating on an election, and they said she was cheating. She wasn't cheating. She went over, she looked at one of the election scams going on, and because she did that, they put her in jail for nine years!" "She caught people cheating on the election 2020, along with a lot of other people that cheated on that election." — 47 recently LFG! 📽️ @NobleOne

🚨JUST IN: An Enhanced Games athlete won without taking any steroids or performance enhancing drugs Hunter Armstrong won the 50m backstroke as a “non-enhanced” athlete

@LostHistory9 Revoke his US citizenship, seize all of his assets (only if this is legal), and send him to Turkey.

Here are the following things that need to happen for justice to be served in this Hasan business: Hasan needs to be locked in a prison cell or deported. All of his assets need to be seized and liquidated, with the cash getting donated to a worthwhile charity.

🚨 BREAKING: President Trump announces ALL countries involved in the Iran peace deal should also be required to join the Abraham Peace Accords Peacemaker in chief! 🇺🇸 He's FIXING the entire Middle East. "Negotiations with the Islamic Republic of Iran are proceeding nicely! It will only be a Great Deal for all or, no Deal at all — Back to the Battlefront and shooting, but bigger and stronger than ever before — And nobody wants that!" "I am mandatorily requesting that all Countries immediately sign the Abraham Accords, and that, if Iran signs its Agreement with me, as President of the United States of America, it would be an Honor to have them also be part of this unparalleled World Coalition." "The Middle East would be United, Powerful, and Economically Strong, like perhaps no other area, anywhere in the World! By copy of this TRUTH, I am asking my Representatives to begin, and successfully complete, the process of signing these Countries into the already Historic Abraham Accords." "It should be mandatory that all of these Countries, at a minimum, simultaneously, sign onto the Abraham Accords. Those Countries discussed are Saudi Arabia, The United Arab Emirates (already a Member!), Qatar, Pakistan, Türkiye, Egypt, Jordan, and Bahrain (already a Member!)."

Memorial Day is a solemn reminder that freedom is never free. Today, we honor the brave American heroes who made the ultimate sacrifice for our nation. We remember our fallen warriors, pray for their loved ones and Gold Star Families, and give thanks for those who gave everything. God Bless America. 🇺🇸🇺🇸

“Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.” May we always live worthy of their sacrifice, honor their memory, and never forget the brave Americans who paid the ultimate price.

The Trump administration must send in the military immediately. Everyone involved with the establishment of any “autonomous zones” should be labeled an enemy of this country and dealt with extreme hostility.

🚨 BOOM! Code Pink is now under FEDERAL SUBPOENA for aiding communist Cuba, the same organization Marco Rubio absolutely WRECKED when he was a senator This moment never gets old 🔥 "Are you filming it? I want you guys to get this. I want them to destroy every element of Hamas they can get their hands on. These people are vicious animals who did horrifying crimes. And I hope you guys post that."