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[Will | ATX @JetsWills]

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[Nick shirley @nickshirleyy]

🚨 Welcome to the lawless, dangerous, and illegal markets in NYC, where millions and potentially BILLIONS of tax dollars are lost each year. Where criminals arrested for drug dealing, assault, and resisting arrest are set free to commit their crimes once again.

The NYC Council says it loses over $1.7 billion in potential tax revenue. These vendors are primarily illegal migrants from Africa who make $10,000’s of dollars a week TAX FREE.

In a city that wants to "tax the rich" but turns a blind eye to open criminality and fraud, there is a problem. How can women feel safe knowing criminals arrested for assault are set free on the streets?

This isn’t about left or right, it’s about what is against the law. We all work too hard and pay too much in taxes for others to break our laws and defraud the system. Watch and share!

[Jeff Swanson @theswansjr]

"Not your keys, not your coins" gets repeated until it's noise. Here's what it actually means...and the tradeoff nobody mentions.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

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[Kurt Supe, CPA & Retirement Planner @KurtSupeCPA]

Dad is a long-time Lilly employee.

Has $10M in LLY stock.

Basis is $500K.

Kid needs $500K for a house.

If he sells and gifts it, he owes tax on $475K gain.

That's $95K to the IRS + state tax.

Instead, he puts it in a trust.

Borrows $500K against it.

Gives it to his kid.

Borrowing is not income.

So no tax.

Uses lifetime exemption to avoid gift tax.

He lives on loans too.

Never sells.

He dies holding the asset.

Kid inherits at stepped-up basis.

IRS gets $0.

[vittorio @IterIntellectus]

we’re less than 10 years from decoding all animal communication and BCIs that let us talk back

an entire kingdom of minds we’ve been ignoring for 300,000 years
going to be really fun

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

BREAKING:

The UAE announces it will cuts funds for citizens who want to study in the UK out of fear of Emirati students being radicalized by Muslim Brotherhood Islamists on British campuses.

An Arab state now views a European state as a dangerous Islamist radicalization hotspot

[The Shift Journal @TheShiftJournal]

In 1998, Warren Buffett gave a 1-hour masterclass on how to never lose money investing.

[mike bski @BskiMike22802]

I need to get something off my chest because I'm genuinely LIVID right now.

I feed a family of SIX on approximately $120-130 PER WEEK. All fresh produce. Homemade meals every single day. Chicken Caesar salad, pasta with homemade tomato sauce, chicken tacos with fresh lettuce and tomatoes, the whole nine yards. Dinners run roughly $1.25-1.75 per person. Lunches? FREE because we eat leftovers like responsible adults.

Meanwhile, in Ohio, SNAP pays a family my size around $1,421 PER MONTH. My ENTIRE food budget runs about $520-560 monthly, and we recently INCREASED our spending after refinancing. We were even tighter before that.

Let me do some math that apparently nobody in government has bothered to do. SNAP recipients in my state are getting roughly $900 MORE per month than what my family actually SPENDS feeding six people REAL FOOD. Fresh vegetables every day. Chicken prepared seven different ways throughout the week. Fresh fruit for breakfast. Homemade everything.

When did "Supplemental Nutrition ASSISTANCE Program" become "Here's Almost Triple What Middle-Class Families Budget For Groceries" Program? The word SUPPLEMENTAL means to ADD TO something existing, not to provide MORE than families who work full-time and budget carefully can afford for themselves.

My kids don't know what steak tastes like. We shop at Aldi. We plan meals around what's on sale. We make chicken hotdish on Saturday specifically so we have two days of lunches covered. That's called BUDGETING. That's called PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY. And apparently, that's called BEING A SUCKER because if I just quit my job and went on SNAP, my family would eat BETTER than we do now.

This isn't assistance. This is WEALTH TRANSFER disguised as compassion. Quinn's 25th Law of Liberalism nails it: "Liberals are great at giving away other people's money."

The 45 Communist Goals for America read into the Congressional Record on January 10, 1963 included Goal #32: "Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture." Creating permanent dependency through overly generous government programs that exceed what working families provide for themselves? That's not a bug, that's the FEATURE. Keep people dependent, keep them voting for whoever promises to keep the gravy train rolling.

Look, I'm SYMPATHETIC to struggling families. I really am. I worked my way through poverty and I know what it's like to stretch every dollar until it screams. But there's a difference between a hand UP and a hand OUT that becomes a hand AROUND YOUR THROAT.

So here's my proposal, since I'm not one to complain without offering a solution:

Partner with Aldi or similar discount grocers. Create THREE standardized weekly meal plans that feed families nutritiously for what food ACTUALLY COSTS when you're not buying lobster and energy drinks with EBT cards. Each week, recipients pick their meal plan and either pick up pre-boxed ingredients with printed recipes, or get them delivered.

Here's what a REAL week looks like at my house:

MONDAY: Chicken Caesar Salad with garlic bread - $1.65/person
TUESDAY: Chicken pasta with homemade sauce, fresh broccoli and cucumber - $1.40/person
WEDNESDAY: Creamy spinach chicken with fresh side salad - $1.50/person
THURSDAY: Chicken scampi with bowties and steamed broccoli - $1.47/person
FRIDAY: Chicken taco night with fresh everything - $1.65/person
SATURDAY: Chicken hotdish (feeds Saturday dinner AND two days of lunches) - $1.75/person
SUNDAY: Roasted chicken drumsticks with fresh vegetables - $1.60/person
(I have the full breakdown if you need it)

Breakfasts are English muffins, eggs, cereal, fresh fruit. REAL FOOD.

Recipients want free food? Fine. They get A CHOICE among meal plans, not unlimited choices to buy whatever catches their eye. You know what the military dining facility gives you? WHAT THEY SERVE. You show up, eat what's prepared, and say thank you. That's how assistance works when you're not trying to create a permanent dependent class.

Here's what makes my proposal DIFFERENT from every other welfare reform idea though: it's built on EDUCATION, not dependency.

Every box comes with printed recipes and step-by-step instructions. Families aren't just getting food, they're learning HOW TO COOK. They're learning what healthy portions actually look like. They're discovering that fresh vegetables aren't scary and that chicken can be prepared a dozen ways without a deep fryer. Kids watch their parents cook real meals and pick up skills they'll carry for the rest of their lives.

More importantly, families learn HOW TO BUDGET. When you see exactly what ingredients feed a family of six for a week, you start understanding what food ACTUALLY costs. You learn that meal planning isn't some middle-class luxury, it's how responsible adults have fed families for generations. When you're ready to transition OFF the program, you have the SKILLS to do it. You know how to shop at Aldi. You know how to stretch a whole chicken across multiple meals. You know that homemade pasta sauce costs pennies compared to that jarred garbage.

THIS is how you break the cycle. Not by handing people money and hoping they figure it out, but by TEACHING them the skills that self-sufficient families have always used. The current system WANTS people to stay dependent. My system is designed to make itself OBSOLETE by creating competent, capable families who don't NEED government assistance anymore.

And here's the part that should make fiscal conservatives AND bleeding-heart liberals agree: this new SNAP system could actually SAVE MEDICAID.

Think about it. What's driving Medicaid costs through the roof? Obesity. Diabetes. Heart disease. These are conditions directly linked to poor diet. When SNAP recipients can buy unlimited soda, chips, candy, and processed garbage, guess who pays for the resulting health crisis? MEDICAID. Which means TAXPAYERS.

With my meal box system, families eat fresh vegetables every single day. Lean protein. Whole grains. The kinds of foods that PREVENT the chronic diseases bankrupting our healthcare system. Kids growing up on these meals don't develop childhood obesity. They don't get Type 2 diabetes at fifteen. They don't need expensive medications and hospital visits that Medicaid covers.

You want to cut Medicaid spending? Start by not CREATING the health problems Medicaid has to treat. Every dollar spent on fresh broccoli in a meal box is a dollar NOT spent on insulin, dialysis, and heart surgery twenty years from now. This isn't complicated math, but apparently nobody in government connects these dots.

The current system CREATES sick people and then PAYS to treat them. My system creates HEALTHY families who don't need either program eventually. But that would mean fewer government employees, fewer dependent voters, and fewer excuses for expanding bureaucracy. Can't have that now, can we?

This approach eliminates waste, fraud, and abuse because there's nothing PROFITABLE to sell. You can't trade meal kit boxes for cash. You can't buy cigarettes with pre-portioned chicken breasts. And here's the compassionate part nobody wants to acknowledge: it takes STRESS off these families. No more agonizing over what to buy, what to cook, how to stretch dollars they're not stretching anyway. Just pick Plan A, B, or C, get your weekly box, follow the recipes, feed your family.

But this will NEVER happen because the current system isn't DESIGNED to help people become self-sufficient. It's designed to keep them dependent, voting for whoever promises to maintain their benefits.

SNAP benefits currently average $8.2 BILLION per month nationally. That's not assistance, that's an INDUSTRY. An industry that employs social workers, bureaucrats, and politicians who need the poor to stay poor so they can keep their jobs "helping" them.

I'm a teacher in a high-need, high-risk district where ALL of my students get FREE lunches at school. And here's the kicker that should make every SNAP defender's head explode: my family is DEBT FREE except for our mortgage. Single income. Teacher's salary. Stay-at-home mom raising four kids. We're not trust fund babies. We're not secretly rich. We BUDGET. We SACRIFICE. We make CHOICES.

And we do it on LESS than what SNAP hands out.

Let me say that again for the folks in the back: a family of six living on ONE teacher's salary with a stay-at-home mom, completely debt-free, spends LESS on food than what government assistance provides. This is DOABLE on a single salary if you're not buying garbage and actually cooking real meals.

I SEE the results of this broken system every day in my classroom. These aren't bad kids or bad families. They're trapped in a system designed to keep them exactly where they are. Generation after generation, dependent on government, voting for whoever promises more, never building the skills or habits that lead to actual prosperity.

Meanwhile, my family eats fresh chicken seven nights a week on a budget HALF what SNAP provides, and somehow WE'RE the ones who are supposed to feel guilty for questioning where all that money goes.

Quinn's First Law: "Liberalism always generates the exact opposite of its stated intent." SNAP was supposed to SUPPLEMENT nutrition assistance, not REPLACE personal responsibility with government dependency. Mission accomplished in reverse, as usual.

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But what do I know, I'm just a taxpayer who feeds his family on half what the government hands out and has the audacity to notice the math doesn't add up.

[Gunther Eagleman™ @GuntherEagleman]

PATHETIC: They have had over 10 months to pass secure election laws and impeach rogue Judges… Nothing.

Both are tagged! Let them know they are failing the American people.

[Will | ATX @JetsWills]

@cryptorover @grok tell me about it

[adam @AdameMedia]

“Imagine a government that totally destroys the country (which is criminal behaviour) and then criminalises complaining about it. And the point of that surveillance is not to keep you safe but to punish you for noticing what they are doing to your country.”

~ Tucker Carlson

[adam @AdameMedia]

🚨KASH PAETL SAID HE WAS COMING FOR INFLUENCERS WHO CRITICISE ISRAEL, NOW HE’S SUING THEM

The FBI Director said social media is “out of control” and that he was working to censor the internet.

Now hes having his girlfriend suing @ElijahSchaffer for $5M

[Right Angle News Network @Rightanglenews]

BREAKING - Residents of Michigan are making a plea to Americans fed up with the Muslim invasion of their country to march on November 18 through the streets of Dearborn the same way Muslims take over streets in America.

Spread this everywhere, it’s time to mobilize like them.

[AmericanPapaBear™ @AmericaPapaBear]

"I am honestly thankful this SNAP sh*t is over."

"You motherf*ckers ain't done nothing but cry you aren't getting your free stamps no more."

"You know what happens if I don't get up and go to work? My family dies. My son takes insulin shots."

This is what HARDWORKING AMERICANS are doing day in and day out!

We grind and work our butts off because we HAVE TO!

[Christy 💕 @Christy4Change]

I am convinced that if this generation was faced with a Zombie Apocalypse….

There would be Zombie sympathizers and Zombie rights activists.

That’s how screwed we are.

[Defiant L’s @DefiantLs]

Meanwhile in Texas...

"Let me tell you this, Islam will enter every house... let them yap all they want, their children will be muslim"

[Will | ATX @JetsWills]

@mikefutia BANANA

[TaraBull @TaraBull]

Insane

[Will | ATX @JetsWills]

@LibertyValkyrie Indiana