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@gracemonkey1971 @DavidbSwihart @LibertyCappy And again, it was never really balanced - the debt went up every single year.

@DavidbSwihart @varneybe @LibertyCappy Bill Clinton had 8 budgets rejected by a Gingrich lead Congress before he submitted a balanced one. To say he balanced the budget is misleading

The last time ANY president, Republican or Democrat, actually left us with less debt than the day they came into office was Calvin Coolidge in the 1920's It has been A CENTURY and every president has sold us out, including republicans This is why everything is so expensive

@DavidbSwihart @LibertyCappy So, you don't understand how the US government works. It's not surprising, given that you can't do a simple fact check of the actual numbers to see that you've been lied to.

@varneybe @LibertyCappy Not really

@Martina You mean lying about Israel? It's not OK. Maybe you should stop propagating lies.

@DavidbSwihart @LibertyCappy So even if there WAS a surplus, it was due to the Republican-controlled congress of the late 90s, not Clinton.

@DavidbSwihart @LibertyCappy And yet you keep believing them. The treasury reports the ACTUAL debt, not the fake accounting sleight-of-hand used to falsely claim there was a surplus. But even more important: Presidents don't authorize spending or taxes. That's congress. /1

@FollowIncentiv @4TaxFairness And the people who buy all that are supposedly healthier according to the "estimates"? Yeah, I don't buy it.

@4TaxFairness Let me free up some budget for you. About 1 in 4 SNAP dollars goes to soda, snacks, and desserts. If you need help, no issue providing the essentials. But why are we funding junk food? Source: USDA purchase data (Nielsen analysis)

Last year, the people in charge cut SNAP food assistance and gave that money to billionaires as tax breaks instead. New estimates show that those cuts are likely to lead to 70,000 avoidable deaths. 70,000 people might die—but don't worry, billionaires got their tax breaks.

@Martels_Hammer @Wescott464348 There is zero provision in the Constitution for holding an election in an off year. If Trump and Vance were impeached AND removed (VERY unlikely) in quick succession, Mike Johnson would be President until January 2029.

@Wescott464348 When Trump admits defeat in Iran and runs away…the impeachment should be 100-0 in the senate… for him, Vance Rubio Hegseth. Mike Johnson can be temporary President until we have a new presidential election in 2026 not 2028….won’t matter much by Nov America will be dead.

Breaking🚨: A "double impeachment" is being prepared that could change the course of the U.S. In 2026. Do you support starting impeachment proceedings against Trump and Vance?

@nxthompson They have 4x as many people as we do, and yet we still spend more on research. And if you had any involvement in actual science, you'd know that the quality of the research they are doing pales in comparison to what goes on in the US.

The US has canceled hundreds of millions in science grants and driven thousands of Ph.D.s out of the federal workforce. China, meanwhile, has poured evermore resources into its research efforts. If they pass us as a scientific superpower, we shouldn't act surprised. theatlantic.com/science/2026/0…

@DavidbSwihart @LibertyCappy Identify the year the debt went down. I'll wait. I'll repeat: you were lied to.

@varneybe @LibertyCappy

@FirstStrike786 @PramilaJayapal And we'll have an unprecedented economic collapse. You folks simply don't understand what forcing people to sell trillions of dollars of assets to pay a wealth tax will do to public markets.

@PramilaJayapal If billionaires pay 2% wealth tax, then we can achieve universal child care, student debt relief and affordable housing for millions of Americans.

In the richest country in the history of the world, why the hell do we allow billionaires to pay a lower tax rate than public school teachers? That's not an accident. That's a policy choice. Tax the rich.

@PramilaJayapal We don't. You've made that up. It's a lie.

@DavidbSwihart @LibertyCappy You were lied to.

@LibertyCappy I thought clinton did too?

@_6signxxx Yes. We wanted cheaper flights, so they needed to cram more people on each aircraft.

Real question??? Why did we move away from having this much space to being packed like sardines??Is there a log!cal reason???

@jimiuorio They don't understand what a pension is.

The people making a million get the same benefit as those who make 185k…

@UziCryptoo Using the proper figures - MEDIAN rent is $1,360, which means you need an income (3x) of $4,080 or $48,960 per year. Median household income is $83.750.

@UziCryptoo So many mistakes, so little time. You've used MEDIAN salary (should be household income) but purportedly used "AVERAGE" rent (and lied). You can't compare medians and averages. AVERAGE rent is $1,740, but MEDIAN rent (what you should compare to MEDIAN income) is $1,360. /1

Average rent is $3K You’re supposed to make 3x the rent which is $9k, Which is $108k a year. Average salary in U.S. is $51K. The Math isn't working.

@shien119 @TukiFromKL It's a retirement contribution. Contributions are capped. Benefits are capped. Just like every other pension system.

Exactly — this is the kind of structural inequality baked right into the system that most people don’t realize until it hits their paycheck. Social Security isn’t a flat tax; it’s regressive in disguise: the lower and middle class are effectively subsidizing the very wealthy. Here’s the math in plain terms: Social Security taxes 12.4% of your income up to $184K (for 2026). Anything above that? Zero. So a nurse earning $90K pays $11,160 a year. Someone making $500K hits the cap early in the year, paying just $22,816, which is a smaller percentage of total income (~4.5%). A billionaire? They’re paying a tiny fraction of a percent compared to their total wealth.

🚨 do you understand what just got confirmed in the US Senate.. people making under $184K pay 12.4% Social Security tax on every dollar they earn.. nd someone making $1 million pays 2.2%.. a billionaire? less than a fraction of a percent.. here's why.. Social Security stops taxing you after $184K.. every dollar above that.. untouched.. so a nurse hits her cap sometime in September.. and pays the full 12.4% all year.. Jeff Bezos hits his cap before the end of January.. and pays nothing for the remaining 11 months.. they call it a loophole.. but a loophole is an accident.. this is a law they wrote, passed, and never changed. when FDR created Social Security in 1935, the wage cap made sense.. the richest Americans weren't earning a thousand times more than workers.. the gap wasn't this wide.. they built a system for one economy.. and forgot to update it when the economy changed.. the less you earn.. the more of it they take.. and they built the whole thing that way on purpose.

@TukiFromKL Social Security works like every other pension system. There is a cap on how much you contribute, and a concomitant cap on how much your benefit can be.

@tonyannett @JEJakiun It's not deference to billionaires. It's an acknowledgement that every tax that initially targets "the rich" eventually comes for us all. It's an understanding of how markets work, and the realization that this type of tax would cause an enormous crash that hurts us all.

@JEJakiun Again, the deference to billionaires is stunning. And vile.

If I can pay tax on the so-called “unrealized capital gains” on my house every year, the richest man in the world can bloody well do so for his obscene wealth. The deference shown to these oligarchs is breathtaking.

@tonyannett YOU. DO. NOT. PAY. INCOME. TAX. ON. THE. UNREALIZED. CAPITAL. GAINS. ON. YOUR. HOUSE. Please stop making this intellectually vacant argument.