Would you support a constitutional amendment that only people who pay income taxes, should be eligible to vote?
People without skin in the game should not be allowed to vote for the candidates that will raid taxpayers pockets and the U.S. Treasury for them.
Just so we’re clear on who is subsidizing whom.
White men are 36% of the population and 39% of the labor force. They pay 62% of federal individual income taxes, 50% of federal payroll taxes, 70% of taxable capital gains, and account for about 10% of all welfare recipients.
Since it's in the 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘴𝘦, let's talk about welfare.
Annual spending on major assistance programs such as Medicaid, SNAP, Section 8, etc is approximately $1.25 trillion (we have an official deficit of about $1.8 trillion).
Here's that number alongside the BMI of recipients. As you can see, approximately 40% of recipients are obese with another ~30% overweight. ~70% of welfare is going to subsidize waistlines.
Gamers do not need to prove our trauma to people. No one is entitled to demand access to our grief, our stories, or our dead as a condition of believing us. The demand to see the bodies of gamers before acknowledging their deaths is utterly disgusting.
JUST IN: U.S. State Department replaces the roughly 200 foreign flags displayed in its lobby with 200 American flags to remind employees “who they work for.”
The debate is never about the person you’re debating. You can’t move them.
It’s about the 3rd person in the room. They can be moved. They’re not just observing your arguments, but how you conduct yourself.
Too few understand this.
“Gas is high so I’m not voting.”
You tolerated a dementia patient, $5 gas, and millions of illegals.
One war and a $4.50 gallon and you’re done?
You’d rather watch America get looted again than pay 80 more cents.
Weak.
Machiavelli writes in The Prince that you should never rely on losing deliberately so that way people will want to restore you. This can only work if literally all other options fail and you lost anyways, and if not they will never restore you.
In other words, letting Democrats win because you hope Republicans will then give you power or because it will cause the system to collapse and then you rise to the top is a really, really dumb idea.
You must exhaust literally all expedient options to continue to maintain or to take control rather than simply rely on losses to somehow result in a win. Important stuff.
how can you not believe in God when octopuses DREAM and otters have a favorite rock they carry around in a little SKIN POCKET and cows have BEST FRIENDS and bees are out there communicating the coordinates of flowers through INTERPRETIVE DANCE and they have REGIONAL DIALECTS??
cats are PURRING at frequencies associated with bone healing??? forests get absolutely incinerated and respond by growing FLOWERS??? dolphins literally invent NAMES for themselves and yell them across the ocean??? penguins are waddling around Antarctica looking for the PERFECT LITTLE ROCK to give their beloved???
CROWS REMEMBER YOUR FACE. THEY TELL OTHER CROWS ABOUT YOU. THEY TELL THEIR CHILDREN ABOUT YOU. YOU CAN HAVE GENERATIONAL BEEF WITH A BIRD.
goats have ACCENTS. rats GIGGLE when you tickle them. elephants mourn their dead. whales make SONGS and then OTHER WHALES LEARN THE SONG and suddenly everybody across the ocean is singing the new hit single.
monarch butterflies are born knowing how to fly thousands of miles to a place THEY HAVE NEVER BEEN. sea turtles hatch out of an egg, immediately sprint toward an OCEAN they have never seen, disappear into it for like THIRTY YEARS and then somehow come back to THE SAME BEACH???
birds can see COLORS THAT WE CANNOT SEE. there are colors happening RIGHT NOW that we don’t even get to know about.
there are sea slugs that eat algae and STEAL ITS CHLOROPLASTS and then are just like great thanks I’ll be PHOTOSYNTHESIZING NOW. there are mushrooms communicating underground. there are seeds sitting in the dirt for DECADES like no actually I will wait.
squirrels plant MILLIONS OF TREES because they simply cannot remember where they put their snacks.
A CATERPILLAR GOES INTO A LITTLE BAG, DISSOLVES MOST OF ITS BODY INTO ORGANIC SOUP, REARRANGES ITSELF, GROWS WINGS AND LEAVES.
and you’re telling me a tiny acorn knows how to become a 70-foot oak tree??? nobody tells it what to do??? it just has TREE INSTRUCTIONS INSIDE IT???
your body started as ONE CELL. ONE. and that cell divided itself into a brain that can think about its own existence and eyes that can look at stars and hands that can hold somebody else’s hands and a heart that runs on ELECTRICITY without you even asking it to???
the iron in your BLOOD was made inside a STAR.
I’M SORRY?????
we are walking around on a wet rock covered in bioluminescent oceans and singing whales and laughing rats and birds holding lifelong grudges and flowers exploding out of FIRE and somehow we’re supposed to act like this is a normal place to live?????????