Prediction:
Property taxes on paid-off homes will be abolished or dramatically reduced within 5–10 years.
Logic:
Democracy = most votes wins.
Largest voting bloc? Boomers.
Politicians cater to the largest bloc.
For years, boomers wanted home values to go up, so policies restricted new housing, driving up home values.
Now many Boomers are retiring on fixed incomes and struggling to afford property taxes on those inflated values.
Political pressure shifts: reduce or eliminate property taxes.
Government cant afford to do it for everyone, so they’ll just do it for “paid off homes” to make boomers happy.
Hey Texas! Did you know that one of your congressman is in the Epstein files? And that’s legitimately the least sketchy part about this creep.
It’s time to get rid of Tony Gonzales.
The number of grown-ass adults who don’t understand rights blows my mind.
Rights fall into two categories: negative rights and positive rights.
Positive rights are things you’re owed, regardless of circumstance. For example, if you live in a country with free healthcare, that’s a positive right — you don’t inherently have healthcare, but the system says you’re entitled to it.
Negative rights are freedoms you already possess — and no one, including the government, is allowed to take them from you. Freedom of speech is a classic example: you can say whatever you want, and the government can’t legally stop you.
America’s Constitution is built almost entirely on negative rights.
You’re owed due process, and that’s about it. Outside of that, all the Constitution does is guarantee that the government won’t interfere with your speech, your guns, your religion, or your life.
And if they try?
You’re armed for a reason.
There’s the civics lesson you should’ve gotten in third grade.
A comedian who blew up on TikTok (@mattrife) getting rich and buying a house full of haunted relics once owned by famous exorcists sounds like a genius marketing stunt for the scary movie franchise reboot…. But it’s probably just real life.