Ville Aro

Small cap investor FIN - SWE - ENG

[Eric Matheny 🎙️ @ericmmatheny]

I don’t care if it’s a COVID variant or Hantavirus or if it starts raining fire.

Never give in, never lockdown, quarantine, or close your business ever again.

Ever!

Have we not learned our lesson the first time?

Do not give these evil bastards one inch.

[Ville Aro @VilleAro]

Sparc AI $SPAI $SPAIF reminds me of another military tech company a few years back.

Invisio $IVSO started landing their first volume orders around 2010. Then contracts kept coming from armed forces worldwide and the share price followed.

[Children’s Health Defense @ChildrensHD]

🚨 WHOA: The incidence of SIDS ‘DISAPPEARED’ in Japan after raising the age of vaccination to two-years-old.

@PierreKory

#CHDTV

[Dr. Simon @goddek]

1/ Today I’m going to red pill you on RAW MILK and why it’s one of the most nutritious and suppressed foods on Earth.

Governments say it’s “dangerous.” But you can buy cigarettes, weed, and alcohol without a problem—yet raw milk is illegal in many states?

Let’s dive in. 🧵👇

[SweetPeaBelle @SweetPeaBell326]

JD hits Germany once again. Awesome as always.

“Germany’s entire defense is subsidized by the American taxpayer.
There are thousands upon thousands of American troops in Germany.
Do you think the American taxpayer is going to stand for that if you get thrown in jail for a mean tweet?
Our friendship is based on shared values.
You don’t have shared values if you are jailing people for saying we should not close our border.
You don’t have shared values if you cancel elections because you don’t like the results, and that happened in Romania.
You don’t have shared values if you are so afraid of your own people that you silence them and shut them up.”

[IMI Daily @imidaily]

The crazy story of how Norway🇳🇴 gifted 5,000 millionaires and $100s of billions to Switzerland🇨🇭in just 2 years:

In 2022, Norway raised its wealth tax to 1.1% (highest in Europe) and its capital gains tax to 38% (2nd highest).

It made it virtually impossible to preserve wealth in the country and forced Norwegian millionaires out of the country.

Here's how:

If you have $100m in taxable wealth (to pick a round number), you need to pay $1.1 million in wealth tax each year.

But where do you find that $1.1 million? Well, you have to sell off assets.

But if you sell $1.1 million of assets, this triggers a 38% capital gains tax, leaving you with just $682k (not enough to pay the wealth tax).

So you have to sell MORE assets.

To pay both the wealth tax AND the capital gains tax on the money you were forced to raise, you actually have to sell assets worth closer to $1.8 million.

Then you need to pay the entire $1.8m to the government - JUST TO KEEP THE MONEY YOU ALREADY PAID TAX ON WHEN YOU MADE IT IN THE FIRST PLACE.

In other words, if you do nothing, you lose 1/50th of your wealth every year. And this doesn't even account for inflation or bear market years.

It often also means losing control of your company, since you have to sell shares every year.

And if you're a startup unfortunate enough to get investment at a high valuation, you will have to borrow money just to pay tax on money you haven't even earned yet!

So, 5,000 Norwegians understandably moved to Switzerland, including 500 of the richest people in the country.

And the ones who didn't leave in time, hoping for cooler heads to prevail, got punished severely.

Because when the government saw what was happening, they introduced an EXIT TAX (effectively a financial Berlin Wall).

So now, if you want to leave Norway, you have to pay 38% of the market value of ALL YOUR ASSETS.

And the worst part is that the Norwegian government doesn't even need this tax money in the slightest.

Because thanks to enormous oil and gas revenue, only about 18% of the government's revenue comes from taxes paid by private citizens.

And only a fraction of that from wealth tax.

Norway also has the world's biggest sovereign wealth fund, today worth $1.6 TRILLION, or $320,000 per Norwegian.

Even if Norway didn't collect a single dollar in tax, it could still fund government spending for a decade using the money in that fund.

The Norwegian government does not need the money. It is simply greedy and spiteful.

Why would anyone EVER build anything in Norway?

This is how you destroy the private sector as fast as possible.

I suspect this is what this government ultimately wants since they can then control the remaining population with handouts.

Some loopholes still exist, but they are closing fast.

If you're a Norwegian who wants to get out of this abusive relationship, let me know, and I will put you in touch with people who can help.

[Wide Awake Media @wideawake_media]

RFK Jr: A researcher named Dan Olmsted "was very curious about unvaccinated populations, and the Amish are one of those populations."

"So he went and he did a study of the Amish... Following the national trends, there should have been about 2,000 autism cases. And they were able to find three."

"And all of them were children who had been adopted by the Amish after receiving their vaccines. Of the Amish in general, they could not find any."

[hagaetc @hagaetc]

So I tried to build a tech company from Norway and here’s what happened:

1. Two years of building without almost any money/funding, better part of a year without salary
2. Raise VC and become one of Norway’s first unicorns
3. Face unrealized gains wealth tax bill of many x my annual net salary. ofc the company is loss making and all the investors have preference shares so I can’t take out any money.
4. Call out publicly that this does not make sense. Independent of level, taxation needs to happen when you actually make money.
5. I move to Switzerland because no politician cares/listens.
6. I still don’t get any tangible and sensible answers to my criticism of unrealized gains tax, BUT I do get put up on the “wall of shame” at the socialist parties offices…

I’m Norwegian and I love Norway but the socialist politicians are taking the country down a dark path. It’s a real life Atlas Shrugged.

[John Kulak @JohnTheKulak]

Pfizer's Headquarters right now after realizing RFK Jr. will soon control the public health agencies.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Department of Government Efficiency

[James Lindsay, anti-Communist @ConceptualJames]

This is the way.

[Eddie @Eddies_X]

Reminder: The unvaccinated were right!
CNN's coverage of the vax started with how effective it is and ending with:

"Why vaccinated people dying from Covid-19 doesn't mean the vaccines are ineffective"

[Sara Gonzales @SaraGonzalesTX]

Holy sh*t. This is a must watch 👇🏽

[Green Lives Matter @Ultrafrog17]

Robert Kennedy Junior's Greatest Red Pill Moments

Few have dropped more red pills since 2020 than Robert Kennedy Junior.

I’ve compiled some of his greatest hits so you can have them all in one place for swift distribution.
Share this and help continue to wake up the populace.

We are winning the narrative war. 🧵

Some clips found by @TheChiefNerd and @VigilantFox and myself (@Ultrafrog17).

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇦🇷MILEI: ONLY ENTREPRENEURS CREATE WEALTH, NOT POLITICIANS

"The only ones who can generate wealth in this country and the world are entrepreneurs, not politicians.

Politicians don't know how to create wealth and have no incentive to do so.

When they try, all they create is corruption."

Source: @laderechadiario , @JMilei

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

Milei speaking about eliminating taxes:

“Only 10 of the 190 taxes collect 90% of the total revenue. The other don't cause direct economic damage but generate obstacles,delays & endless procedures hindering econ. activity in a country where making 💵 is already an impossible task

[Leading Report @LeadingReport]

BREAKING: RFK’s VP pick Nicole Shanahan releases a “Trump Derangement Syndrome” ad.

[Cillian @CilComLFC]

Milton Friedman said it best:

“Keep your eye on how much the Government is spending, because that is the true tax.

There is no such thing as an unbalanced budget. You PAY FOR IT either in the form of taxes, or indirectly in the form of inflation or debt.”

Fact check: TRUE ✅

[FlyFifer @FlyFifer10]

This photo is the steel reinforcement of the base of a wind turbine, you will still have to add between 600 and 800 M3 of concrete, which is a weight of nearly 2000 tons!
Once the wind turbine is dismantled, this base will forever be buried in the ground.

[Tim Denning @Tim_Denning]

I'm 38.

When I was young I worshipped politics, went woke (broke) & believed in the myth of equality.

Then I discovered Thomas Sowell, and he changed my life forever.

12 lessons from America's most controversial & unknown philosopher: