Gordon Lamphere

VP of Sales & Leasing, @VanVlissingenCo | Chicagoland's #1 ranked CRE broker 2026 | 100+ deals/yr | Host, @RealFindsPod | Love Your Enemies 🙏🏻 🇺🇸 Made

[Gordon Lamphere @Gordon_CRE]

Greatful to work with @VanVlissingenCo, an experienced team with a vast network of occupier and investment contacts.

We leased a high-credit tenant, renewed, and maximized profit for the owners with a direct sale.

So thankful for the opportunity to serve our clients!

[Gordon Lamphere @Gordon_CRE]

@joshsmithroe Not the suggestion… smh

[Gordon Lamphere @Gordon_CRE]

Unpopular Opinion: The bottom 50% of America should pay some form of income tax.

Yes, it should be progressive.

Yes, it could be less.

But if half the country pays nothing, half the country has nothing at stake.

[Jawwwn @Jawwwn]

.@JeffBezos: The bottom half of income earners in the US pay 3% of the taxes. It should be 0%.

"It's absurd we do this."

"Why is a nurse in Queens making $75k/year paying 1k/mo in taxes?"

"We shouldn't be asking this nurse to send money to Washington. They should be sending her an apology."

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@RyanCalavano

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@AndrewKoster Bailouts are exactly the kind of spending I’m talking about. Wall Street gets rescued, and working families pay for it through inflation. If more people saw the cost of government, bailouts would be a much harder sell.

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@DropAPinShow

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@OfWonk Somewhere between 3% and 0% is as middle ground as tax policy gets. I’m not asking the poor to pay more. By ‘stake’ I obviously mean a stake in the cost of government, not its outcome. Just don’t cut taxpayers' share to zero, because people watch what they pay for.

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@OfWonk Obviously’ isn’t evidence. Economists have studied this for a century as ‘fiscal illusion’: hide the cost of government and people tolerate more spending. That spending becomes inflation, the most regressive tax there is. Nobody votes on it, and the poor pay the highest share.

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@FullTimeQB Same argument, same post. ‘Nothing at stake�� obviously meant no stake in government costs, not in life. Ofc everyone has a stake in their quality of life. Not everyone sees the bill, and that’s why spending grows unchecked, out of control, and comes back as inflation.

[Gordon Lamphere @Gordon_CRE]

@FullTimeQB Agreed, people live here! That's the point! Out-of-control spending and money printing come back as inflation, and inflation hits working families and those paycheck to paycheck hardest. The tax bill they never saw shows up at the grocery store or the rising cost of shelter.

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@OfWonk Happy to be wrong! Is there any research showing that voters insulated from the cost of government push for prudent spending?

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@Vesmic87

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@Barack_McBush You are arguing against a straw man, I’m not arguing that billionaires should pay less in taxes or even that people in the bottom 50% should pay more. Please reread my tweet. SMH.

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@Barack_McBush If you understood the tax code at all you’d know they currently pay income taxes, I’m not arguing for new taxes.

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@DylanRatigan Are you arguing for taxing unrealized gains, or just that the 1% doesn’t pay enough in taxes to have a stake in society?

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@s_bozzy

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If you’re going to die at your desk, make sure it's a desk you like sitting at.
- Millennial Proverb

[Morning Brew ☕️ @MorningBrew]

“people have to prepare to work well into their 70s and 80s”

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@AdamG620 My conversation is about federal income tax, beyond that each state and municipalities tax regime is highly variable.

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@AdamG620 I didn’t say they were, we currently have a progressive tax regime.

[Jay Parsons @jayparsons]

At what point can smart people realize that price caps on electricity, credit card fees and housing are equivalent of serving kids a diet of candy: It looks appealing until the digestion process begins.

Surely we can get more creative and embrace science over slopulism.