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Alex
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Alex
@iamaherr
Political junkie, news follower, podcast listener, tennis player. Here for finance, economics, science, engineering, food, Minnesota, and travel.
Minnesota Katılım Ekim 2013
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@adolt @NYCMayor In 2023, the top 5% of earners — people with incomes $272,209 and above — collectively paid over $1.27 trillion in income taxes, or about 60% of the national total.
usafacts.org/articles/who-p…
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Happy Tax Day, New York. We’re taxing the rich.
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Client at Target said in times of belt tightening they usually see shoppers shifting down to cheaper food and household items.
But right now shoppers are splurging for healthy foods, protein snacks, and more expensive organic cleaning products. Prioritizing health and self care
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I'm not quite sure how VA got played. Spanberger's record as a radical was clear. She would not even condemn someone wishing for the death of not only her Republican opponents but their children too. A majority of VA voters chose her anyway. I feel for those who didn't. But VA is about to suffer for those foolish choices.
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JUST IN: Governor Abigail Spanberger officially signs a bill handing over Virginia’s 13 electoral votes to whoever wins the most votes across the whole country… even if Virginians vote the other way. Insane. They rushed it through with mostly Democrat votes. The plan has 222 votes. It needs 270 to actually start working. Once it does, your vote in Virginia doesn’t matter anymore. The Founders made the Electoral College so a few big cities don’t boss the whole country. This is a sneaky Democrat power grab to cheat that. “Every vote counts the same”? Lies. Virginians are pissed off, and they should be. They got played.
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@dougboneparth My hypothesis: AllBird's ($BIRD) April Fools joke posted 2 weeks late, and they're just going with it.
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Uber has no cars.
Airbnb has no hotels.
Allbirds has no shoes.
This is the new economy.
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Just voted no on Virginia Democrats tawdry and dishonest gerrymander ballot measure.
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If you paid even a penny in federal income tax last year, you paid more than:
Tesla
Southwest
Disney
Live Nation
HP
United
PayPal
CVS Health
Palantir
Citigroup
PG&E
3M
That's right. They paid $0 in federal income tax.
It's time for big corporations to pay their fair share.
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@leeap52 @SenRickScott Also, suspects are suspected of a crime.
Not charged. Even if they were charged, they are still innocent UNTIL proven guilty.
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STAT: 75% of murder suspects in Fairfax County, Virginia are illegal aliens.
These criminals are roaming our streets, killing innocent Americans, and the INSANE Democrats STILL REFUSE TO FUND ICE!
We have to protect AMERICAN citizens and FULLY funding DHS NOW.
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1. Get married.
2. Have kids.
3. Don't let the government educate them for you.
We win in one generation.
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@DavidMMcintosh Well, if a fucking idiot like Benny said it, it must be true.
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Illegal immigrants killed 13,000 Americans in 2024.
The total number of homicides in the US in 2024 was 20,162.
That's 64% of all murders.
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@ErinStapylton @DemzDeliver The guy who cut funding for cancer research isn't going to cure it.
Regardless, he signed the bill massively increasing the deficit because HE promised people checks.
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@iamaherr @DemzDeliver Yes, He could veto But in the face of election year public and congressional pressure. People were promised checks. He was going to veto the one from December 2020 because it didn't do enough.
Regardless, Trump could cure cancer and Dems would say he is a demon for doing so.
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Every Democrat since Reagan has decreased the deficit.
Every Republican since Reagan has increased it.
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@DraughtJane @MiMiLooLooTx @DemzDeliver Clinton had 4 years of surpluses.
They were smaller than the deficit he inherited from Bush 1 (and decreased each year of his first term).
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@iamaherr @MiMiLooLooTx @DemzDeliver The debt increased under Clinton. He had a lot of projected surpluses. He had plans based on projections that he didn’t meet in his own time in office that were still passed on to Bush.
They all suck and acting like they don’t is why we’re where we’re at.
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@ErinStapylton @DemzDeliver Do you know who can veto bills he doesn't want to become law?
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@DemzDeliver Let me help y'all out with this. Power of the Purse is in the House. SOTH O'Neal drove the Clinton success. Obama had a super majority his first 2 years. Tripled the deficit. All Nancy P. 2020, Nancy strikes again during the pandemic, driving deficits to record levels. Dems suck.
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I know everyone is hyperventilating about the meme President Trump shared. Context matters. I'm not going to speak for the President. But let's review the deification of Barack Hussein Obama. Democrats literally called him Chicago Jesus.
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@MiMiLooLooTx @DemzDeliver You're innumerate, aren't you? The 2 are directly related.
You can see where Clinton's budgets changed deficit to surplus in 2000. The downward trend is tiny, but it was the last time there was any decrease at all.
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@DemzDeliver No one cares about the deficit.
The issue is the national debt.
ZERO REDUCTION IN DEBT.
FROM ANY POTUS.
This is the problem.
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JUST IN: 🇭🇺 Elon Musk says the "Soros Organization has taken over Hungary."
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@AlecStapp I haven't seen as many people recommending Cash App for taxes. It's completely free. I've been using it for 4 or 5 years, and have no complaints:
cash.app/taxes
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This may sound like a sponsored post but I promise it's not (I just hate TurboTax and their rent-seeking lobbyists with the passion of a thousand suns):
Use FreeTaxUSA instead. It's >90% cheaper than TurboTax and easier to use/higher quality software.
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🚨WATCH: Minnesota House Speaker Lisa Demuth outlines the House GOP’s $3.8 BILLION tax cut proposal for Minnesota families.
“This is a $3.8 billion tax cut proposal. It includes one-time property tax relief. It includes ending the taxes on tips and overtime, lowering our childcare costs, cutting car tab fees, and delivering hundreds of millions of dollars to Minnesota schools at no cost to taxpayers or to the state through scholarship granting organizations.”
Do you think Minnesota needs to cut taxes?
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@VehementMaybe @WaysMeansCmte Thatcher's inflation rate topped out at 2x any year Biden was president but sure.
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@WaysMeansCmte LOL.
Blatant propaganda.
Record inflation under Biden.
But you assholes want to keep the govt shut down because it negatively impacts the economy.
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The economy Democrats left Republicans with:
More Perfect Union@MorePerfectUS
BREAKING: Inflation just rose the most in four years in March. Skyrocketing gas prices led to consumer prices rising 3.3% in March from the year before. The March rise is gas prices was the biggest one month jump in gas prices in sixty years, according to @AP.
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@JeffEb10 @MinnesotaDFL Your inability to understand the US president starting a war will make gas prices go up seems to be the key here.
You're making wild claims that are nowhere in what I wrote. The wanton bombing of a school and the billions of dollars we're wasting on the war makes it terrible.
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@iamaherr @MinnesotaDFL ...discussing world events, economics, with narcissistic liberals is an exercise in futility.
You basically summed up that if/when gas prices will go down Trump deserves the credit for going to war.
Maybe sit this one out, the adults are here for another 3 years.
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As gas prices hit $4 in Minnesota, out-of-touch podcaster and GOP Senate candidate Michele Tafoya doubles down on her "one less trip to Starbucks” comment.
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@GoodDay2X @KushDesai47 Yes, prices in March 2025 were up 3.3% from prices in March 2025!
That's what the inflation calculation is.
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@iamaherr @KushDesai47 Specific prices for specific products are always changing.
Best to compare overall yearly inflation rate.
When in doubt, ask grok.
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President Trump has always been clear about short-term disruptions as a result of Operation Epic Fury, disruptions that the Administration has been diligently working to mitigate. Although gas and energy prices are seeing volatility, prices of eggs, beef, prescription drugs, dairy, and other household essentials are falling or remain stable thanks to President Trump’s policies.
As the Administration ensures the free flow of energy through the Strait of Hormuz, the American economy remains on a solid trajectory thanks to the Administration’s robust supply-side agenda of tax cuts, deregulation, and energy abundance.
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