Jim Torode

I Call Balls & Strikes. Faith in our Creator. Hubby. Granddad. Capitalism is Hard. Socialism is Death. Optimism Attracts Opportunity. Be Useful.

[Jim Torode @JimTorode]

@dferris1961 @RudyHavenstein ...and then they ride back into town declaring "We will save you!"

[Nancy Pearcey @NancyRPearcey]

"When the left loses an election, it tries to destroy the country; when it wins, it succeeds."

— Friedrich Hayek

[Jim Torode @JimTorode]

@FlopMeister1 @RockChartrand You really think a "loving, protective and altruistic" political class exists to take care of you?

Free Market Capitalism succeeds because it iterates billions of times daily to satisfy the needs and wants of the most people. It has rescued billions out of abject poverty.

[Dan Ferris aka Boxer the horse @dferris1961]

@porterstansb is right. This is great.
https://t.co/C1LL7M5qnu

[Mike, Mike, Mike @Gulicio1]

This is the best explanation between left and right I have heard in a long time! #RepublicanValues #democraticvalues

[Lyn Alden @LynAldenContact]

You can be globally compassionate as a person and still feel that your society should have careful borders and that local cultures matter, and should be preserved if they're clearly doing well.

These actually aren't in contradiction.

[Jim Torode @JimTorode]

@JohnMartin929 Gutsy turnaround performance.

Great to see Marcus battle back like a champion.

[Jim Torode @JimTorode]

@JunkScience @GBNEWS They are terrified of being cancelled and/or doxed for presenting contrary thoughts.

[Jim Torode @JimTorode]

@ClayTravis Dude's been a "performance artist" for most of his career...nothing new here for the basketball-playing narcissist.

[Jim Torode @JimTorode]

@jasonwhitlock Well-stated and on point.

A daily prayer of gratitude is part of my wake-up routine every morning.

[Jim Torode @JimTorode]

@dferris1961 @AOC What's even more frightening about AOC's stupidity is that she has supporters who believe this crapola.

Knuckleheaded voters voting for economic dolts results in disaster for the rest of us.

[Jim Torode @JimTorode]

...and it's not even close.

[Connor Boyack 📚 @cboyack]

Often derided "capitalists" have lifted far more people out of poverty than every NGO, globalist do-gooder, and welfare program combined.

[Rob Schneider 🇺🇸 @RobSchneider]

France has FREE health care, paid parental leave, paid family leave, FREE child care, FREE preschool, 5 weeks paid vacation, a 35 hour work week, generous unemployment and housing benefits, and heavily subsidized higher education.

Everything the left says they want AND THEY'RE STILL PROTESTING AND BURNING SHIT DOWN.

[Jim Torode @JimTorode]

@GrowingUpRetro Morning prayer to God and reciting the Pledge of Allegiance.

[Jim Torode @JimTorode]

@maxkeiser What other ways would one suggest that local services like police, fire, schools, roads, bridges, parks, etc. be paid for if property taxes are abolished?

I wish to pay the lowest taxes possible, but I also know that services mentioned above have to be paid for by somebody.

[Bill Ackman @BillAckman]

Premise:

Incentives drive all human behavior.

The corollary:

How to destroy a country:

A vast social security and support system that serves as a magnet for those who would rather not work.

An open immigration policy that does not screen immigrants to determine their ability and willingness to provide for themselves and their families.

An open immigration policy that does not screen for political and/or religious ideologies that are a threat to the country.

Economic incentives large enough to incentivize immigrants on the state dole to have large numbers of children, but insufficient for educated and economically productive mothers to be able to quit to raise a family.

The declining fertility of the most educated and productive women due to their delay to begin a family as a result of their desire and/or need to advance their careers, among other reasons, to live a life they deem consistent with their educational achievements and/or to repay their student debts.

Amnesty programs that give citizenship and voting power to illegal immigrants without consideration of their economic productivity or their threat to the country due to their religious or political ideologies.

The changing demographics and increased population due to the above factors.

The state responding to protests by increasing social support.

The continued failure to punish and hold accountable violent and looting rioters.

Government managed by a massive and growing unelected bureaucracy.

Government fraud, waste, and abuse contributed to ballooning budgets.

Anti-business legislation that makes it difficult for businesses to compete in a global marketplace being disrupted by AI, including restrictions on firing even poorly performing employees.

Overly burdensome, globally uncompetitive, corporate taxation.

Continuous increases in personal taxes to raise funds to provide for the rapidly growing welfare state.

The substantial majority of the tax burden levied on a small percentage of the population.

A growing percentage of the electorate paying no taxes and receiving welfare.

The introduction or threat of a wealth tax including the taxation of unrealized gains, i.e., taxes on paper wealth.

The flight of the most productive business builders and highest taxpayers to lower tax countries with lesser security concerns.

A growing percentage of the electorate voting for candidates that support increased welfare and laws favorable to, and/or that match the cultural and ideological needs and desires of a growing unproductive immigrant population.

The rapid rise in anti-semitism and inadequate efforts to address this hatred.

Increased borrowing by the state to fund the growing social burden.

Higher sovereign interest rates due to all of the above.

The resulting need to reduce expenditures to make the math work.

Increasingly violent protests that make life less livable for the productive and law abiding citizens leading to their accelerated departure.

And so on…

[Jim Torode @JimTorode]

@JohnMartin929 Actually gives the G6 a better shot at getting a 2nd team into the mix.

[Jim Torode @JimTorode]

@RockChartrand Watch a view videos about the "daily activities" of wild animals on the African savannahs as to the "rawness" of nature and folks like Paul will quickly change their tune.

[Jim Torode @JimTorode]

@SenAdamSchiff All the facts regarding the mental state of the shooter haven't even been released and here comes the "let's get all the guns" dolts out of the woodwork.