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@its_The_Dr Of course

I wonder, Would you Drive 500 miles if Someone found your Dog. At night?

@durkalski @ThrillaRilla369 Chopped beef on toast with peas. Mom made it but I couldn’t eat it ever again.

@ThrillaRilla369 Cream of mushroom Campbell's soup on toast 😋

A poor people food that you will eat no matter how rich you get

@gr8t76 @ThrillaRilla369 Just no to Ramen

@ThrillaRilla369 Ramen.

@RickD_GK @RYboating 🤢

The audacity that people have in public pools, public areas for that matter. Go clean your rear in a private setting dude, not where kids are swimming. I would have shamed this guy publicly on the spot had I seen this. Would you have?

@BodycamVideos_ Ran in and ran out with stuff

4-year-old found alone in parking lot while mom shoplifts from Walmart

@timburchett @itslinklauren Go Link Go!!

You got this Dude!

@nicksortor @SecRollins Howie Carr has been reporting on this for YEARS!

WTF?! The Trump admin found 14,000 food stamp recipients in a SINGLE STATE driving luxury cars like Ferraris, Lamborghinis, and Maseratis, per @SecRollins We are constantly being RIPPED OFF. Put these people in JAIL, and FORCE them to repay EVERY SINGLE PENNY!

@believer27428 @Milajoy Same

@Milajoy Yep, I could see it coming. Once after using self-checkout, I got all the way to my car before I realized I had not scanned one item. Went back in and paid for it. I knew then it was doomed to fail.

This was inevitable, right?

@UziCryptoo @LucciaorLucy Why do they deserve a tax increase? The local govt spending is out of control.

My dad called me today “Hey, i’m struggling to pay my property tax for this year. It went up almost $1500 to $8188 for the year versus $6600 for last year. I’m confused, i thought taxes were not to increase for two years. Did yours go up as well? This really sucks! They are trying to drive us out of the state.” My dad is 76 and lives on social security. He’s lived in the same house since 1993. It’s been paid off for two decades. Yet he owes $8k in property taxes, or the state of Texas will take his home. This is criminal

@MAGAMAHACindy I always say “ bring me the person willing to pay that for my house”.

Hypothetically…….. We are being taxed on money we never made. Let that sink in. If I bought my property outright for $160,000 in 2009 Now the county says it’s worth $446,000. Did I sell it? No. Did I make a profit? No. Did I get a check for $446,000? No. But my taxes jumped like I did. That’s the problem. This isn’t income. This isn’t cash. This is a number someone decided on paper and now I’m being billed for it. If my stock portfolio doubles, I don’t pay taxes until I sell. If my income doesn’t increase, I don’t magically owe more income tax. So why does owning a home work differently? Why am I being taxed on unrealized gains? A house isn’t just an investment, it’s where people live. And this system means you can do everything right, pay off your home, and still get squeezed harder every year because of a number you never turned into money. You don’t truly own something if you can be taxed out of it. This isn’t about “services” or “inflation.” It’s about being charged for value you never received. It’s time people start to notice.

@atensnut Get a better reason to live

Then GET HELP! It’s mental illness!!

@MAGA_X_Times @lakemonstercl1 So yes. The insurance company pays the high price which is why we can’t afford insurance. It’s all a scam.

This woman goes to the pharmacy for a prescription for her sick children, she’s informed by the pharmacist but it’s not covered by her insurance, undeterred she asked the pharmacist well how much could it be, the pharmacist responds with the eye popping amount of $1100, then the pharmacist informs her that there’s a generic over-the-counter brand of the same medication for $18.99. The bigger question that goes unanswered here is : What about the people who do have insurance that covers this ? This is one of a multitude of reasons why we pay exorbitant insurance premiums for healthcare, we need comprehensive prescription reforms in this country, this is beyond nuts.

@ashleyschendel My uncles had to sell their houses in retirement because the taxes (NJ) had become unmanageable. That’s sad.

A paid off house should actually feel paid off. When the average property tax bill is $4,427 and keeps climbing even if you didn’t sell, refinance, or magically get richer, it’s not hard to see why people feel like they never fully own the place they worked for.

@Mappy6984 Did you sign it under duress? That’s illegal. Did you sign a legal binding document without representation?

At 27 you know what you're signing. Enjoy the ride

@TheQueenOfNo @jlpoober Exactly. Corporate America 20 hours extra a week is normal. Not paid. Try retail. We worked 6 day work weeks leading up to Christmas. Salary. No overtime.

@jlpoober Do you have any idea how many other careers work over 60 hours unpaid and don’t get summers off either?

Everyone loves to remind teachers about summer. Fine. Let's do the math. This week I worked nearly 60 hours. 6:30 arrival. Unpaid lunch with kids in my room. Covered PE — I teach Spanish. Graded vocab tests Friday night. Graded a children's book project on Saturday. Turned one into a movie and posted it for the class. Five hours of lesson planning today. The standard work week is 40 hours. The extra 20? Unpaid. Some weeks, the grading is lighter. Some weeks it's worse. This is not the worst week I've had. But yes. I get summers off.

@jjstyx They would have criticized her in a 10k dress also. No pleasing anyone.

So everyone is criticizing Pete Hegseth's wife. I guess she wore a 42 dollar dress to the gala this weekend. First of all she looked great in it, I would not be able to tell if it was a $42 dress or $2,000 dollars. It's nice to see people that understand the value of a dollar.

@RyanJones @Delta I don’t understand. Doesn’t first class get seated first so you should have had an empty space, no?

First world problem: I’m boarding my @Delta flight. Family with kids boarded ahead of me. They’re sitting in the back. I’m 1A. They put 3 bags in the first class overhead. I say excuse me I’m in 1A can you leave me room for my bags and take yours to your seat please? Flight attendant yelled at me and made me put my bag in the middle of the plane. I know it’s petty but If you’re in first class that should be your space.

@Rivershedge You don’t move to Florida if you love the mountains.

When I moved to FL from MN here are a few things I noticed: - my kids tired of the beach within maybe 6 months, until they were teens anyway, at which point “beach desire” came back but at that point i was not involved. Boys were - the pool at my house was of interest for 6 months…then not. Ever. Again - me? I hated FL for ~10 years because I blamed FL sorta for my divorce. That was stupid and I finally warmed up to FL. Took me 10y tho. Still moved north later tho - my house there was 6 feet above sea level. That was a bit of a problem during hurricane season - I once visited the highest promontory in the FL peninsula. It was a suburban slope of maybe 300 ft above sea level sw of Orlando. I am at 4800’ now - whatever my balance sheet said? whatever gains I’d made since childhood? I was still a “brokie” in FL lol. FL is absolutely swimming in money - status and materialism were absolutely off the chart there. My kids’ school was an insanatorium of status seeking - it was at least a 15 hour drive to mountains from Ft lauderdale. I am maybe 10 min now in MT. I am surrounded by the beauty I used to crave - English was often a 2nd language in FL. My Spanish then-gf absolutely hated that for some reason. She once “rated” every Spanish accent for me tho. Lol - my kids had playdates at homes with 20+ rooms. Holy crap on that. Geezus. - the competitive spend on bar and bah-mitzvahs was insane. When my kids were about 13 i had a window into a world I had never ever known - going south to key west reminded me a little teeny tiny bit of of my childhood drives going north into the MN lakes region for reasons that are hard to describe. It was always a fantastic drive and a def psych relax for me. So many drives south - Fort Lauderdale had a ton of indoor gun ranges of which i used many if not all. Bozeman, counterintuitively, has none. Zero. - The later age dating scene was absurd in FL, almost entirely a materialistic money game that I didn’t understand. Ever - In 2015 i walked a mile or two to the beach every day for an entire year. I learned to love not the beach exactly but the sky. It was different every day. My warmth of emotion for FL increased that year - Somewhere in the middle of my FL tenure, a “Florida man” cannibalized someone by eating their face. This made sense to me in a way but maybe only if one has ever lived in south Florida - in 2018, 10 years into my FL thing, my oldest daughter took me aside — this was 10 years after my divorce and my moving to FL — and said “i know what you did for us.” I wept privately later that day but then and there I finally understood why I had accepted my exile into FL - I met the only woman over my 60 years to be entirely kind and trustworthy to me…in FL. Didn’t expect that 🤷🏻‍♂️ - I once confronted a dirty shirtless homeless dude digging through my trash. Turns out he lived across the street and had 4 Ferraris, a Cobra and a mini van…a scion of a grandfather with some kind of patent on the cardboard box…a trust fund 60 yo. Had married, divorced, and remarried the same woman. Because she was dying of cancer. Men like this weren’t all that rare in FL - I used to take my kids to Key Largo. A couple hours away. Bay side. Twilight over the mangroves was always so beautiful and there was ping pong on the beach plus the bonfire always made sense to me. The attached photo is bayside Key largo. I would go back there still. My gf lives about 45 min away. Last time I visited her I coaxed her into going to Key West. She didn’t want to go but now it is a treasured memory. I have about 200 more FL stories to tell if I can conjure some additional memory. Just wait until I get my Montana memory in gear!

@ChrisIn909 @Milajoy You should not have to pay property tax.

@Milajoy I lived in Big Bear Lake, CA. My home was paid off. Our property tax was over 1200/mo. I live in AZ now. Again, home is paid off (we commissioned its construction in 2022). Property tax is less per year than it was per month in CA. But I'm a 65 year old Veteran. Why tax me?

My home is paid off. Why do I have to pay property taxes on it?

@hollie__pollard @Milajoy Hmm don’t have a sidewalk, sewage, trash and water are paid by me. City gov’t here is completely bloated.

@Milajoy Property taxes go to every service you gain as a property holder. That water pipe on your street, that road that takes you home, that sidewalk in front of your house, that garbage pick up.