Casey

Retired Air Traffic Controller (AGC/ROC/PHL/UNV) 34 years.

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As a former air traffic controller, 34 years, take this advice: Always get the earliest flight in the day possible to and from your destination. Why? Summer time is bad weather time and weather, especially in the congested northeast, makes a hash out of the system every single time. I lived it and worked it. Book the 6am flights!

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@buitengebieden Pelosi!

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@cardinal4ever @Brink_Thinker You posted your effluent then sniffed your fingers as it is obvious where you pulled your take from.

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@xThen_Now The greatest of all time.

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@FOOL_NELSON The Lager.

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Milton Friedman's greatest regret.

The federal government discovered the perfect crime in 1943: make employers collect taxes before workers ever see their paychecks. You think you earn $60,000 per year, but you actually earn $75,000 and hand over $15,000 to politicians without ever touching it. The psychological difference is enormous.

Before payroll withholding, Americans wrote quarterly checks directly to the Treasury. Picture yourself sitting at your kitchen table, writing a $3,750 check to the IRS every three months. The pain was immediate and visceral. Politicians faced constant pressure to justify every dollar because citizens felt the extraction in real time.

Withholding transforms this concrete loss into an abstract accounting entry. Your employer becomes an unpaid tax collector, and you never experience the actual cost of government. Worse, most people celebrate their tax refunds as government generosity rather than recognizing them as interest-free loans they provided to politicians. The Treasury collects your money throughout the year, spends it immediately, then returns your own cash and receives gratitude.

This system enables the explosion in government spending you witness today. Defense contractors billing $640 for toilet seats, agricultural subsidies for corn syrup, and congressional salaries for 535 people who rarely show up to work. When taxation feels painless, voters stop demanding accountability for how their money gets spent.

Milton Friedman helped design withholding as a wartime emergency measure and later called it his greatest regret. Free market economists recognized that the psychological pain of direct taxation creates political pressure for fiscal restraint. The temporary always becomes permanent in government hands, and the emergency justification disappears while the extraction mechanism remains forever.

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@Emilio2763 @RoKhanna He obviously is both.

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@MikeAlfonsoWI She’s beautiful and oh so precious.

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@LionelMedia What does crazy Candace think of this?

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@howertonjosh

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@Sexy_Manly_Man @AngelMD1103 One could also conclude that the mother was in college at an older age, say 30.

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100 days until kickoff in the 'Burg. The energy, the traditions, the people & the community we're proud to call home!

Appreciate @MartySmithESPN setting the scene #LGH

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@AltitudeSR @NateKreckman @Andy_Lindahl Von and/or Peyton.

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@BreitbartNews

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@EricLDaugh

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@TheCleanCarClub For those getting it wrong, divided by 1/2 is not the same as divided by 2.

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@BridgetPhetasy You will always be popular with me.

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@ThoNg676733 If the video was taken in the 80s, I would like to see her now.

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@KarMcR @MikeGarafolo @RapSheet Get back to work.

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@Miabella4u @SteelKing4Ever @mtracey No evidence, just guilt by association. The finger sniffers will never get it.