Sigurgeir Sigurgeirsson

Have you seen this great little book with splendid illustrations? I think Samtökin 78 deserves a copy.

“Man is not free unless government is limited. As government expands, liberty contracts.” — Ronald Reagan

We cannot tax ourselves out of poverty.

BREAKING: Howard Lutnick explains Trump’s new mail-in ballot crackdown. Every ballot envelope will now get a USPS barcode and code. One envelope per vote. Full tracking. This is how you can ensure real accountability can be delivered if needed! Lutnick: “None of this time where we have no idea, there’s no observers to mail, there’s no envelopes, there’s no certainty. That’s all going to go away.” Mail-in voting just got SECURED.

What does Merz’s plan to deport 700,000 Syrians (around 80% of illegal migrants) actually mean? - Politically: not much. Merz is known for making tough-sounding announcements, but he rarely follows through largely because he refuses to cooperate with the AfD. > Without breaking the “firewall,” there is no parliamentary majority for remigration in Germany. At the EU level, similar positions have already gained traction, but in Germany the CDU remains too cautious. + Merz has already built in a loophole: “integrated” Syrians who wish to stay can remain. That alone signals a lack of real commitment. - Metapolitically: his position marks a big shift. Ideas once pushed by patriots, from the AfD to Identitarian circles, are entering the mainstream. But only political power turns ideas into policy. > We will hold Merz accountable and keep pushing him.

it hasn't sunk in for most people. we already live in a post-scarcity society. UBI is already here. basic package: disability, medicaid, food stamps etc bonus package: literally getting paid for staying at home and hanging out with your relatives extra bonus: if you are willing to commit fraud, pretend your kids are autistic and get paid for that. get paid for watching your neighbor's kid. pretend you are taking care of your grandma. fake hospice clinic. fake rehab clinic. fake therapy clinic. giga bonus: during a time of crisis take advantage of PPP or CARES and open a fake business and get paid for existing people are shocked when they learn that defense is the FIFTH largest line item in the budget. ahead of defense: social security ($1.6T), interest on debt ($1.1T) medicare ($1T), medicaid + ACA ($1T), AND THEN defense ($0.9T) complain about defense all you like, but healthcare fraud is a way bigger factor. hundreds of billions per year. this is only going to get worse, because the fraud is a structural part of the system – payouts to client groups in exchange for votes (normally D). in the US, only 47% of the population actually works (fully 14% of the population is working age and does not work). retirees are 18% and children 22%. the system I described above subsidizes 50m non-working people absolute minimum, but really it's far more because people that are paid to stay home and take care of their relatives are considered "workers" of that 47% of "actual workers" maybe one third does real work, the rest are shuffling papers around or doing fake email jobs. so you have, rough math, 50 million actual workers supporting 300 million dependents. that's the nature of the economy today. it will only accelerate. eventually you will have 10 million using AI tools to do all the work and 340 million dependents. the reason no one roots out the fraud is because it's the system that keeps our extremely fragile polity intact. the fraud is the UBI. the purpose of the system is what it does. of course, it's a deeply unfair system, because you are allowed to commit fraud if you are a politically protected client group of the democrats. DOGE was killed faster than any government program ever, because it attempted to root out the fraud. if you are honest and unwilling to commit fraud, you are a huge loser in this system. your neighbor will have their mortgage subsidized by some government program. they will get favorable SBA loans due to DEI. they will open a fake hospice or autism clinic. they will get paid for taking care of their neighbor's kid and vice versa. the primary skill in the labor market is learning how to extract money from state and federal government programs, not gaining skills or making yourself employable. if you are just trying to work an ordinary wagie job you are a huge sucker. you are paying 40-50% effective all in taxes to everyone else who is a net taker. the sad part is because AI is such a substantial productivity boost, it will actually keep this system going for a while longer, and maybe in perpetuity. AI boosts the 15% of the population that is actually productive so much that the remaining 85% can coast by. no one in charge will change this because they can't think of anything else. the political costs of a real UBI program are too great and we don't have the money for it anyway. so we will keep this covert fraud-based UBI program running indefinitely. unfortunately, if you are an honest wagie, you lose.

Ég kýs þann flokk sem lætur fjarlægja þennan óskapnað strax

Nautakjöt er lúxusvara á Íslandi. Fyrir meðal mánaðarlaun eftir skatt er aðeins hægt að kaupa 100 kg af nautakjöti í Reykjavík. Ísland er með gríðarlega háa verndartolla á innflutt nautakjöt og litla framleiðslu mv mörg Evrópulönd.