Country Club Conservative
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Country Club Conservative
@alt_ccc
Emmanuel Macron Republican and Javier Milei Democrat






Deficit forecast for 2026 (%): 🇨🇾2.1 🇮🇪1.4 🇩🇰0.9 🇬🇷0.8 🇵🇹-0.1 🇱🇺-1.2 🇱🇹-2.2 🇲🇹-2.2 🇪🇸-2.4 🇳🇱-2.5 🇨🇿-2.8 🇸🇪-2.8 🇭🇷-2.9 🇮🇹-2.9 🇱🇻-3.3 🇸🇮-3.3 🇩🇪-3.7 🇧🇬-4.1 🇦🇹-4.1 🇪🇪-4.5 🇫🇮-4.5 🇸🇰-4.6 🇫🇷-5.1 🇧🇪-5.2 🇭🇺-6.2 🇷🇴-6.2 🇵🇱-6.5 #ECForecast 🔗link.europa.eu/nHhhH7








Jeff Bezos: "Any corporate or Amazon CFO could find 3% (to cut) in Federal budget on a Tuesday afternoon" to fund zero taxes for bottom half/poor. "This is a skills issue" calling out administration and management incompetence in Federal government and local NYC city school system (He is also calling for higher wages for teachers while cutting outlandish admin budget)

Yes, the United States has the most progressive tax system in the world. The top 1% pay 40% of taxes, the bottom 50% pay 3% of taxes. We can make it even more progressive by zeroing out taxes on the bottom half. It’s a small amount of the total tax revenue but very meaningful to people in this group.




Greek finance minister says most troika reforms ‘absolutely necessary’ ft.trib.al/h1BhlDr






Minnesota has just become the first state to ban prediction markets. Gov. Tim Walz has signed a bill that makes operating or advertising prediction markets a felony. This sets a major precedent for those seeking to regulate or ban Polymarket, Kalshi, and other sites.



What historical fact sounds fake but is true?





