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[david friedberg @friedberg]

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.

[The Rabbit Hole @TheRabbitHole]

“Tax the rich”
We already do.

“Make the rich pay their fair share.”
They already do.

These slogans are catchy but inaccurate. They reveal that someone is misinformed on taxation in the United States.

[C3 @C_3C_3]

Elon created $1 trillion of value.

Congress created $39 trillion of debt.

Elon’s wealth is not the problem…

[Ben Shapiro @benshapiro]

Multimillionaire paid by multibillionaires very angry at trillionaire

[Handre @Handre]

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.

[John Stossel @JohnStossel]

Nostalgic memes spread misleading messages, like:

“Once, families could own a home & send their kids to college on one income.”

But the homes were smaller.

Most kids didn’t go to college.

The memes ignore facts.

We give them to you:

[Noah Sharp @The_Noah_Sharp]

AND THE 2026 @JUCOWorldSeries CHAMPIONS WITH A RECORD OF 67-3 THE JOHNSON COUNTY CAVALIERS BRING THE FIRST EVER BASEBALL NATIONAL TITLE BACK TO OVERLAND PARK!

[Congressman Greg Steube @RepGregSteube]

India’s government is upset about H-1B delays because their citizens are “stranded” back home?

Meanwhile Americans have been stranded out of jobs for years while companies use H-1Bs to replace U.S. workers with foreign labor.

My EXILE Act would END the H-1B program entirely!

AMERICAN jobs should go to AMERICAN workers.

[Chris Pratt @prattprattpratt]

Before we get into today’s festivities let’s take a moment of silence for all those we’ve lost. Let’s honor those who fought for us and our country today and everyday. Happy #MemorialDay everyone, God bless.

[a16z @a16z]

Marc Andreessen on the question at the center of data center discourse & why it's so important:

"Can you build anything in America anymore? Can you build a factory? Can you build a chip plant? Can you build a power plant? Can you build a refinery? Can you build a pipeline? Can you build housing?"

"One of the common themes in American life for the last 30 years is the answer to those questions is generally, no, you can't do any of those things."

"Take as an example, Silicon Valley, right? So all the chips are made in Taiwan. Well, 40 years ago, all the chips were made in California."

"Can you build things in America? Can you build a factory? Can you build an energy plant? Can you build a data center? Can you build housing?"

"And on every single one of those, there's this massive problem which is, right now in many cases, in many places, no you can't."

@pmarca with @joerogan

[Cardiac Chiefs @CardiacChiefs]

@pauldacity @marcorandazza Wrong. https://t.co/MhuHUYe9Fy

[Chris Freiman @cafreiman]

Your periodic reminder that the US spends far more on entitlements than defense:

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

In December, an 85-year-old widow called a North Carolina tree removal company, begging for firewood to keep her house warm, but said she couldn't pay them.

Paul Brittain, the owner, delivered the firewood for free, fixed her car, her roof, her heating/AC unit ALL for FREE and then raised $20,000 for her for Christmas.

Ever since, has been maintaining her property, completely for free.

He has never charged her a dime.

This is the America I love!!!!🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[Nick shirley @nickshirleyy]

@hasanthehun Somewhere out there, theres a dude making millions of dollars a year who preaches to his audience about the benefits of communism and socialism while he profits from capitalism, and they believe his nonsense down to the bone.

[Nick shirley @nickshirleyy]

@NYCMayor I know a few teachers and New Yorkers who would benefit from less waste and fraud in the government.

Why not cut waste, fraud, and abuse before taxing anyone more?

A homeless person in NYC receives more funding than the salary of a single mom working a 9-5, maybe start there.

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

Farmers have figured out that the cheapest pesticide is a strip of flowers.

When you plant wildflowers through a crop field, not just around the edge but in strips running through the middle, you get ladybugs, lacewings, hoverflies, and parasitic wasps living in the field instead of visiting it.

They eat the aphids, the caterpillars, and the mites for free, all summer long.

In controlled trials, fields with tailored flower strips had leaf-beetle numbers 40 to 50% lower and crop damage cut by around 60%, enough to drop below the threshold where spraying was even considered worth it.

The flowers attract a standing army to our fields.

We spent decades engineering chemicals to kill the insects eating the crop, when the insects that eat those insects would have worked for the price of seed.

[Nick shirley @nickshirleyy]

@GavinNewsom In Californias case it might be good to fight fire with water

[Kent Swanson @kent_swanson]

What an exhausting, frustrating saga.

[@jason @Jason]

Honestly, fuck almonds

[Cardiac Chiefs @CardiacChiefs]

@JoelWBerry L.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

❤️❤️ Happy Mother’s Day ❤️❤️

Appreciation to mothers everywhere who brought us all into the world and nurtured their beloved children 🥰