@LordOfTheDivX @SandyofCthulhu Hey! I would imagine it would be quite easy for you to live with no services. Go do that somewhere. There’s a society cost to doing all those things you do living in…..a society!
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MattConlan2
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Every time you earn or spend gets taxed. Investments? Taxed. Did you sin and buy cigs, booze or gasoline? Bigger taxes. And its unfathomable to people that you try to keep one large possession and hand it down to your family after a lifetime of extortion. Nope that's taxed. God forbid you die, they want that taxed too. Buy gold, live in a box.
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But why is it on your house? Why not tax your washing machine. Or your carpet? Or the black velvet paintings handing on your walls? It's completely arbitrary, and seems unfair, particularly because we are ALREADY HEAVILY TAXED for those damn public services.
Rushi@rushicrypto
I’m very confused about the number of people who think “property tax” is a sales tax on you home rather than taxes to pay for public services you use every day. “I paid off my home why do i still pay property taxes?!?!?” Oh, did you also stop using the roads and libraries and sidewalks and parks? Not worried about fires anymore?
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@SandyofCthulhu Are you advocating for a VAT? (It is, of course, a tax on your carpet, or lack of it, which is why it’s based off market value (not arbitrary) and you can appeal through your assessor (who’s usually elected.)
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@KRobbinsMN Ok! Can I see your bill for increasing flexible bus rapid transit, please?
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Spending $3.2 BILLION on light rail the communities don’t want, when Hennepin County can’t afford to fund HCMC or the Sheriff’s Office, shows how out of touch county officials are with constituents.
We could do flexible bus rapid transit for 10% of the cost of fixed rail, NOT destroy the neighborhoods & NOT add to the enormous property tax burden. Common sense should prevail.
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@ronrule @ReformSouthern Good idea! Put em all back in government, where they belong! Right? This is what you mean, right?
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What Dems aren’t saying is they want to lift the cap, but NOT increase the benefit.
Someone making $184k would pay 12.4% of their income and get ~$4k/mo in retirement.
Someone making $1M would pay 12.4% and ALSO get ~$4k in retirement.
It’s just a sneaky way of raising taxes.
Senator Patty Murray@PattyMurray
If you make under $184k, you pay a 12.4% Social Security tax rate. Everything after that cap is exempt from the tax. So if you make $1 million per year, you pay about 2.2%. And it's 0.002% for billionaires. If we lifted the cap, Social Security could be funded for decades.
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@ronrule If you think the billionaires need a little more retirement security, I’m sure extending the benefit would be fine. Why don’t you tell your favorite congressperson to file that bill?
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Yes, Feeding Our Future defendant Abdul Abubakar Ali cooperated with the Feds. But 1 year seems awful light for a financial crime that size.
Even worse, the judge had to sentence higher than prosecutors agreed with. They were ok with probation. Not cool.
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@BubbyBlu29353 @srtownsend53 @TaconiteRed Aw, hurt your feelings? What don’t you like about the post?
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Minnesotan here ✋🏻
Just dropping by to say that no one in this state is surprised by this sentence.
If a white native-born Minnesotan like me stole $3 million in taxpayer money, Walz and his DFL cronies would crucify us - publicly tar and feather us, seize every asset, lock us up for decades, and unleash their rabid mobs to endlessly harass our entire family.
The idea that we’d get one year and a day in prison while only paying back $123K and walking away with the rest is laughable.
It’s just (D)ifferent, rights guys?
KSTP@KSTP
Feeding Our Future defendant Abdul Abubakar Ali will serve one year and one day in prison for his role in the $250 million fraud scheme. kstp.com/kstp-news/top-…
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@srtownsend53 @TaconiteRed @BubbyBlu29353 So maybe instead of outrage posting….If you weren’t being a dumdum, we could’ve never had this interaction!
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@MattConlan2 @SpaghettiKozak Nah lenin wasnt succesful . Stalin yes
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Many men infinitely more competent than you tried and failed.
Rainer Shea ☭@rainer_shea
Marxism-Leninism is the foundation on which we’ll build a new world.
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@TaconiteRed I see. So you have a problem with the way the Trump appointed prosecutors handled the case, but you decided to make up a situation that didn’t happen in your head so you could be angry at the people you want to be angry at. Seems tiring
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@MattConlan2 I sure did! But, looks like you didn’t care to read the comment where I said that exact thing. My post was directed at the response the Dem state leaders would have under different circumstances.
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@GoatedXOpinions @FilmstudyRavens Ok. You’re right. Everyone shares your opinion. Sorry to have bothered you
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@MattConlan2 @FilmstudyRavens Labeling you boomer adjacent isnt name calling. Its just a fact. Don't like it? Progress
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Following the opening weekend of ABS, I can't understand how anyone doesn't believe the game is improved. To summarize:
--Another layer of strategy has been added
--Many calls were corrected, including 7 of 10 in the O's game
--Showing the Hawkeye result on the screen is going to get the bad umpires to retire sooner (Check video of CB Buckner's game)
--Result is virtually instantaneous
--After correction Ump Scorecards are going to have significantly less impact on the game with many key calls reviewed.
#Orioles
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@TaconiteRed @BubbyBlu29353 Can the federal government prosecute, also?
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@TaconiteRed Do you mean like Aimee Bock? Or the 17.5 year sentence of Mukhtar Shariff?
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@joemccuiston17 @VP What a sad little life you lead in your head.
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“[Fraud] has to stop. The President of the United states has ordered us to stop it, and that's what this task force is going to do” - Vice President Vance🇺🇸
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@VP You should probably start by not pardoning people convicted of fraud. What do you think about that?
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@GoatedXOpinions @FilmstudyRavens I think take away from the game. I'm not saying you can't like it, Why can't you accept I think it steals quite a bit from what a love about MLB. Please don't respond unless you can do it without being insulting
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@GoatedXOpinions @FilmstudyRavens You sure are reading a lot into it. If you really want to discuss this without name calling I'd be happy to, but you seem unable or unwilling to do so. Not scared of it, just find it unnecessary, pandering, a potential slide towards NFL silliness, an emphasis on things that
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@JonJustice @Tim_Walz Oh does his shirt hurt your feelings? Poor little boy. I suppose his Scout makes your manliness shrivel, too
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The flanneled Commie @Tim_Walz proves once again he and those at the "No Brains" protest do not care if you commit acts of fraud or break the law as long as you always vote Democrat. Listen live: tinyurl.com/JJTCNT
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Our retention isn’t that great, but I’d still prefer working extra days and longer hours with an all-volunteer force vs being flush with a drafted, disinterested and disgruntled crew - any day.
Variety@Variety
Rob Schneider says the United States “must restore the military draft for our nation’s young people” amid the ongoing war with Iran: “Being a citizen of the United States gives us unparalleled Freedoms and opportunities that are the envy of the world. However, these Freedoms that we cherish do not come without a cost.” variety.com/2026/film/news…
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