Raffles Wilberforce Mansfield

Moving from enmity to amity. Fan of the 9th and 10th amendments.

[Raffles Wilberforce Mansfield @Readythinkable]

@rolypolyistaken There is a bit of an “exit fee” if you annul your citizenship. But yes, the alternative to paying taxes is renouncing your citizenship and leaving the country or incarceration.

[Raffles Wilberforce Mansfield @Readythinkable]

@green__bean15 @FelonSkunk37088 @carmuner @christopherhale https://t.co/7RC6La6e0m

[Raffles Wilberforce Mansfield @Readythinkable]

@FelonSkunk37088 @carmuner @christopherhale Actually, many do provide free or reduced cost care to the poor or needy. Can’t speak for all. And many were founded by religious orders specifically for at purpose. Has government involve made medical care more affordable?

[Raffles Wilberforce Mansfield @Readythinkable]

@FelonSkunk37088 @carmuner @christopherhale Do I have to dig up information on positive impact of religious organization or just point to governmental failures?

Salvation Army

[Raffles Wilberforce Mansfield @Readythinkable]

@FelonSkunk37088 @carmuner @christopherhale I guess that lends credence to your views on what Christian views should be. Ever go to a hospital that had “Saint” in its name? Or “Holy” or the name of some denomination?

[Raffles Wilberforce Mansfield @Readythinkable]

@FelonSkunk37088 @carmuner @christopherhale schools with names that start with Saint or have the words “holy” in them). Plus countless local initiatives.), seem to have a lasting and positive impact addressing real needs and helping people escape addition and hardship.

[Raffles Wilberforce Mansfield @Readythinkable]

@FelonSkunk37088 @carmuner @christopherhale What has the state of CA spent on ending homelessness? How would you rate their success? Religious founded organization (Alcoholics Anonymous, Young Men’s Christian Association, Salvation Army, Hospital’s whose name begins with “St.” or include the words Methodist, Presbyterian

[Raffles Wilberforce Mansfield @Readythinkable]

@Kbrooks2080 @carmuner @christopherhale Don’t have a great stat in it, but guessing somewhere north of the 67% of the general population who indicate they have made donations to a church. Do you have a better breakdown?

[Raffles Wilberforce Mansfield @Readythinkable]

@FelonSkunk37088 @carmuner @christopherhale I think one of the primary objects is the compulsory nature of it. The second is that it seems less effective than voluntary efforts. Third it tends to displace voluntary efforts and engagement.

[Raffles Wilberforce Mansfield @Readythinkable]

@Kbrooks2080 @carmuner @christopherhale That’s a bit different then “that aren’t doing that really…”

[Everybody is Insane @colorblindk1d]

Corporate tax increases are always paid by the customer!
Corporate tax increases always result in fewer jobs!
Tariffs are just corporate taxes.
It would be nice if Republicans and Democrats both understood this.

[Rebekah Massie @TheOtherMassie]

This one is going to agitate some folks.

I’m certain of it.

[Raffles Wilberforce Mansfield @Readythinkable]

@8nousername8 @CollinRugg @Nsol001 I hope that is the evolving consensus. I think there is general agreement there was a failure of “the system” to remove the individual from society at large, it’s a question of whether it was a failure of the legal system or the social services system.

[Rock Chartrand @RockChartrand]

Freedom doesn’t guarantee virtue. It guarantees choice. Some will choose wisdom, some will choose folly. But only in freedom can virtue mean anything, because a “good” forced at gunpoint isn’t good at all.

[Stephen L. Miller @redsteeze]

Imagine the media blaming George Floyd on the person filming it happening.

[Raffles Wilberforce Mansfield @Readythinkable]

@OliverStrawhat Doing anything with the pedestals would be good. Leaving the spaces empty is a failure and sends the wrong message.

[Matt Kibbe @MattKibbe]

Every new power President Trump claims for the Executive Branch will be doubly abused by the next Democratic administration. This is the opposite of draining the swamp.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

If it is called the Department of War, can we finally acknowledge it commits Acts of War,

which require Congressional Declarations according to our Constitution?

[Raffles Wilberforce Mansfield @Readythinkable]

@scottlincicome @TheAtlantic Nice to see the Atlantic acknowledge that Peronism is a bad thing.

[World of Statistics @stats_feed]

Reliant on coal countries:

🇿🇦 South Africa: 69%
🇨🇳 China: 55%
🇮🇳 India: 55%
🇮🇩 Indonesia: 45%
🇻🇳 Vietnam: 45%
🇵🇱 Poland: 42%
🇵🇭 Philippines: 40%
🇯🇵 Japan: 27%
🇦🇺 Australia: 26%
🇹🇷 Türkiye: 25%
🇰🇷 South Korea: 23%
🇺🇦 Ukraine: 22%
🇲🇾 Malaysia: 19%
🇩🇪 Germany: 19%
🇹🇭 Thailand: 14%
🇷🇺 Russia: 11%
🇺🇸 USA: 10%
🇮🇹 Italy: 5%
🇬🇧 UK: 3%
🇫🇷 France: 2%

% of energy consumption by fuel in 2022.