Producer @ Avoiding Babylon

Catholic husband to an amazing woman & father to 4 amazing children on Earth & 3 children in Heaven. Producer & Co Host on Avoiding Babylon

[Producer @ Avoiding Babylon @CatholicRob]

@Brickhau55 Anthony really loved it. St Therese did too. I don’t know where you can get an unedited version though

[Producer @ Avoiding Babylon @CatholicRob]

Sophia Institute Press cut passages about the Jews out of Fr. Arminjon's classic. We put the original next to their version. Clip drops at 3pm CT. Link below.

[Producer @ Avoiding Babylon @CatholicRob]

@nicnacusa @sigsauerinc @sigsauer Lol

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Clip is live now

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Sophia Institute Press cut passages about the Jews out of Fr. Arminjon's classic. We put the original next to their version. Clip drops at 3pm CT. Link below.

[Producer @ Avoiding Babylon @CatholicRob]

@CurmudgeonHouse That doesn't surprise me one bit.

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Our tax code pays employers to replace Americans. Call it what it is: subsidized displacement.

[Hany Girgis @SanDiegoKnight]

🚨 WHY DOES U.S. LAW GIVE EMPLOYERS A TAX ADVANTAGE TO HIRE A FOREIGNER OVER AN AMERICAN?

Same job. Same $100,000 salary.

But here’s what federal law allows:

• The employer can save $7,650 annually by hiring a qualifying foreign worker.

• That foreign worker can also take home $7,650 MORE than an American earning the exact same salary, before income taxes.

How is this possible?

OPT (Optional Practical Training) is a government-created program allowing international students to work in America for up to 12 months, or up to 36 months for eligible STEM graduates.

Under IRS rules, qualifying OPT workers who are nonresident aliens are exempt from Social Security and Medicare taxes.

At a $100,000 salary:

🇺🇸 AMERICAN WORKER

Employer payroll taxes: $7,650
Total employer cost: $107,650

Employee Social Security/Medicare: $7,650
Pay after FICA, before income taxes: $92,350

🌎 QUALIFYING OPT WORKER

Employer payroll taxes: $0
Total employer cost: $100,000

Employee Social Security/Medicare: $0
Pay after FICA, before income taxes: $100,000

Think about that.

An American college graduate and an international graduate could be working side by side, doing the exact same job, earning the exact same salary.

Yet the employer saves thousands by hiring the foreign worker.

And the foreign worker keeps thousands more from that paycheck.

The American worker costs more to employ AND keeps less of the same salary.

Not because of the employer’s decision.

Because of federal tax law.

This isn’t about blaming foreign students.

It’s about asking why American workers face a tax disadvantage built into their own country’s laws.

Why hasn’t Congress or this administration addressed this?

[Producer @ Avoiding Babylon @CatholicRob]

@Brickhau55

[Producer @ Avoiding Babylon @CatholicRob]

Short answer: yes. Long answer: Matthew 16, Clement, Irenaeus, and an unbroken line down to Leo XIV. Your dad's not wrong, and he clearly loves you.

[Producer @ Avoiding Babylon @CatholicRob]

@nicnacusa @sigsauerinc @sigsauer

[Producer @ Avoiding Babylon @CatholicRob]

@nicnacusa Nasal spray?

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@JosephDeMavx @MattGaspers @BigModernism @Catholicizm1 @FeserEdward @Michael_J_Matt My allegiance is to Christ the King, my nation, and my family...not the Republican party.

[Producer @ Avoiding Babylon @CatholicRob]

@LuckyFish0 @TradLibrarian I might be cancelling mine too

[Producer @ Avoiding Babylon @CatholicRob]

@SipsWithSerra Keep it up dude

[Producer @ Avoiding Babylon @CatholicRob]

@TheMrsFarnum https://t.co/WW6r1nCesf

[Producer @ Avoiding Babylon @CatholicRob]

@BMikey63 Why what? Like why did Sophia cut out the passages? I don't know. I'm sure they didn't want backlash for being "antisemitic".

[Producer @ Avoiding Babylon @CatholicRob]

@alexathallow Yeah, exactly. I always thought 2...maybe 3 at most. We have 4 under 8 with number 5 on the way and each new one just makes me want to bring another into the world.

[Producer @ Avoiding Babylon @CatholicRob]

@MsgrsMelody @Catholicizm1 No. https://t.co/iSs0lJevnD

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https://t.co/6PMhoqYbGJ

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@96ransom …it’s exactly an unbroken line lol

[Producer @ Avoiding Babylon @CatholicRob]

@96ransom He is an Italian cardinal and bishop whose documented episcopal consecration serves as the root for the apostolic succession of over 95% of living Catholic bishops, including recent popes.