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He’s in luck: The ratio of total millionaires to billionaires in America is roughly 23,600 to 1.
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Welles Crowther was a former Boston College lacrosse player and a New York City firefighter who carried a red bandanna.
On September 11, 2001, Welles ran into the World Trade Center to rescue those in need.
25 years later, his life and legacy endure with one of the most powerful traditions in sports, BC's Red Bandanna Game ❤️
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Trump Pledges That If Voters Defeat Socialism In November, They Will Each Get An Equal Redistribution Of Wealth From The Government buff.ly/kRXF5x9
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On the last day of the Obama administration the national debt was $19.95 trillion. Now it’s $40 trillion. Trump and Biden and Congress under both parties doubled the national debt in the last decade. Once you get past the fun finger pointing, the fact remains this was a bipartisan failure.
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David @friedberg on the hypocrisy of @RoKhanna:
"This is some dude who has a $300M net worth. His children have memberships at 3 country clubs."
"The dude lives in a $10M house in Washington, DC."
"And he used to be the moderate Silicon Valley guy who would go around to all the tech CEOs and founders and VCs and be like, 'Give me your money. I'm a moderate. We're going to make the Democratic Party work for you.'"
"Then he saw the tides change, and he's like, 'Oh, this is yum, yum. I'm going to run for president in 2028.'"
"Just to be clear on this, he is so unlikable, I think he'll likely end up being Secretary of Housing and Urban Development if AOC is elected president."
"I do not disagree with him or Gavin or anyone else that tax policy in America is fucked up."
"When billionaires borrow against their unrealized capital gains, they should pay capital gains tax. Capital gains tax should be 40%, not 15% or 18% or 20%. In fact, labor should pay less. Income tax should be much lower. Capital gains should be much higher. That would be a fair tax policy."
"I don't know a lot of people who are wealthy who will look me in the eye and truly disagree with that."
"It's a lot of bullshit when we all say, 'It incentivizes investment.' Great, it incentivizes investment. What are you going to do with your excess capital if the tax rate is 40% versus 20%? You're not gonna invest it now? Of course you're going to fucking invest it."
"But instead of those practical solutions like I just laid out, they're all like, 'Let's go fire up the fucking socialist train because it's worked so well in fucking Cuba and Venezuela and the Soviet Union and all these other places.'"
"What both parties are missing is a policy agenda that says: Here's the shit we have to do to keep America from going down the socialist death spiral. And they all should be fucking doing it, both sides."
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You can vote your way into communism.
But you can't vote your way out.
Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega said the Central American country will no longer hold elections.
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Read the article you referenced Congressman @RoKhanna. It refutes you.
Barzar earns $32.90 an hour, has over $1 million in his 401(k), $15 co-pays, a house with a pool, and had every one of his wife's three brain surgeries covered in full. Costco gave him this. Not Congress. Not a wealth tax. Not you. A private company, freely, because paying and keeping good workers is good business.
That's the whole point you keep missing. Costco proves the market rewards productive labor without a single mandate. Their stock is up 2,000% doing it. The "living wage" you want to force already exists where value is freely traded, and it was built by the very system you spend your days attacking.
So what's your actual purpose? Barzar isn't bitter. He's grateful, and proud, and he built a good life.
You'd rather teach the man with less to resent the man with more, when Costco shows there's nothing to resent, only something to aspire to.
The producer earns his reward. Envy earns nothing. Stop selling grievance and let the market you fear keep lifting men like Tony Barzar.
If workers actually earned a living wage and could afford a middle class life, there would be so much less bitterness and anger in our society. Costco shows that policies of a living wage and worker ownership can also be good for business. wsj.com/business/retail/he-e…
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How sweet of them! Was this before or after they started enslaving, raping and slaughtering the Christians?
Theologian JD Hall to Tucker Carlson:
The Muslim rulers didn't tax churches during the Ottoman period. They were very kind to Christians.
As a matter of fact, they took care of our holy sites. Islamic authorities rebuilt the Church of the Holy Sepulchre three different times over the centuries.
They had a law protecting Christian pilgrims on their journey. Nobody messed with the pilgrims.
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David Sacks just delivered an economics masterclass on Elon becoming the world’s first trillionaire.
@davidsacks: “People see the headline and imagine Elon suddenly has a trillion dollars in the bank. That’s not how it works. His balance sheet didn’t change overnight.”
Why?
The real point is deeper. Wealth isn’t in the “stuff” we consume. Food, shelter, clothes. Things that depreciate and disappear. It’s in the machines that create stuff for decades: tools, workflows, and corporations.
These are the true engines of human progress.
“If you create a machine that makes more stuff, then there’s a discounted present value for all the stuff in the future that machine might create. That’s where the wealth comes from.”
Elon started with nothing. An immigrant who slept on the floor building Zip2. He created these machines from vision and relentless effort. Thousands joined him, including a SpaceX welder who turned his labor into a million dollars in stock.
That’s the magic of tech and free markets: labor can become capital. It’s fluid.
The outrage misses this entirely. The people building machines that deliver medicines, energy, and abundance are creating lasting prosperity for everyone.
What do you think? Does viewing wealth as future productivity change how you see stories like this?
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they’re not jobs if they’re not valued. they’re not valued if there aren’t customers out there willing to pay them for their great work. needing the government to “create” a job is tantamount to welfare and that level of welfare resolves these individuals to a dependency on the government and lack of economic mobility. and chains our people, collectively, to a more indentured future.
you may be well intentioned but you have, and always will, fail to see the destitute folly of government as a job creation engine.
i have tried to engage you on this topic, in good faith, with empiricism and reasoning, but you have only dodged my points and pivoted to some populist refrain about the importance of taxation and the evils of productivity-driven success.
i can only assume you’re dodging these truths because you and the rest of the politburo leadership have deemed the conversation unsafe speech and put your oligopoly at risk.
let’s leave it at that then.
perhaps if your ways get their day, we can all bask in the glories of the dark ages ahead.
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Nobody teaches you that discipline feels like punishment until the results start feeling like freedom
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(TikTok should have been shutdown. It will instead be a multi-generational propaganda platform that lies in wait to push foreign-desired, anti-U.S. propaganda during key policy debates and geopolitical crises.
The legal mechanism to shut it down was there. Trump decided to ignore the law to keep it alive.)
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This did not happen. There are no reports of it happening. No eyewitness accounts, and no video.
The Ventura County Sheriff's Department tells me they do not have any record of what Governor Newsom is talking about. Neither does the Ventura County DA’s office or the Southern California FBI office.
Lying liars always lie.
