My uncle died last night. Went in for surgery on his heart stint but he didn’t look good so my cousin said “pull the plug.” An hour later he sat up, signed himself out, went to the bar with his friends, got plastered then DIED. True Midwestern Irish Man died doing what he loved.
HYPOTHETICALLY… IF I BOUGHT MY HOUSE FOR $125,000 IN 2002 AND THE COUNTY NOW SAYS IT’S WORTH $487,000, WHERE DID I ACTUALLY MAKE $362,000?
Did I sell it? No.
Did I receive $362,000? No.
Did somebody hand me a check for the new assessed value? Obviously not.
But my property taxes still go up because, on paper, my house is suddenly worth hundreds of thousands more.
That’s the part that doesn’t make sense to me.
This isn’t income.
It isn’t cash sitting in my bank account.
It’s a number someone assigned to my property, and now I’m being billed based on that number.
If my stock portfolio doubles but I don’t sell, I haven’t turned that gain into cash.
If my salary stays the same, I don’t suddenly owe more income tax because someone thinks I’m worth more.
So why does owning a home work differently?
WHY AM I PAYING TAX ON A GAIN I NEVER REALIZED?
A house isn’t just an investment.
It’s where people live.
You can pay off the mortgage, own the property outright, and still face a bigger bill every year because the value of the house went up on paper.
At some point, you have to ask what “owning” something actually means if the cost of keeping it can keep rising because of money you never received.
THIS ISN’T ABOUT WHETHER THE HOUSE IS “WORTH” MORE.
IT’S ABOUT BEING CHARGED FOR VALUE YOU NEVER TURNED INTO CASH.
And people are starting to notice.
Universal Income = Enslavement. I find it amazing how so many people can’t see what is happening. The problem is you don’t understand their long term plans.
Pay attention. These people aren’t going to give everyone some land, provide you with heirloom seeds, encourage groups of people to collaborate to grow their own food, not tax you, leave you alone, etc.
Instead, they will give you a check if you behave and live in one of their smart cities. It isn’t real money. It is simply digits on a computer. These are Luciferean transhumanists folks. Recognize what you are witnessing.
🚨#BREAKING: The 11-YEAR-OLD BOY who was stopped by police, FINGERPRINTED, and ordered to court for riding his dirt bike to go FISHING 300 FEET FROM HIS OWN HOUSE...
...has just pleaded NOT GUILTY in court
The 6th-grader MISSED SCHOOL because the State of Florida is prosecuting him for a misdemeanor.
His name is Cade Kirchner, he's 11.
He built and sold squirrel tables all summer and saved $900 and bought a little electric dirt bike with his own money.
On Labor Day he grabbed his fishing pole and rode toward the pond at Sweetwater Park.
Police pulled him over, fingerprinted, ticketed, and then TOWED HIS DIRT BIKE AWAY.
The day before court, Cade said: "I'm feeling very scared. I'd rather be in school instead of being at court."
His dad called the State Attorney's Office on Monday hoping they'd drop it.
Their answer: they're pursuing charges.
So Tuesday morning at 9 a.m., Cade missed class and walked into Seminole County Court with his mom, his dad, and a lawyer.
He stood there for less than two minutes.
The judge told him to come back December 2nd.
His dad's words after: "How ridiculous that he had to miss school for that."
New bodycam video came out this week. The officer, on camera, told an 11-year-old:
"You're getting one ticket today. You could have gotten six criminal violations, but I'm giving you one."
Six criminal violations, for a kid with a fishing pole.
Did Cade technically break the law? Sure. The bike has no pedals and the state of Florida law calls it a motorcycle and even Cade's own parents have said he shouldn't have been on the road.
The argument is that we have VIOLENT CRIMINALS who are being released every single day by the court system all the time who are constantly let off with warnings...
But this kid is getting the full weight of the justice system brought against him.
Now prosecutors are spending taxpayer money to keep the case going into DECEMBER.
Cade's lawyer says he expects it to be resolved soon.
It should have been resolved on the side of the road with the words "go home, kid."
This is so stupid... we are destroying childhood freedom for kids and no one seems to care.
This is not the America I want for my kids.
🚨#BREAKING: Outrage is erupting in Jacksonville FL after a 77-YEAR-OLD man with a BROKEN ANKLE, walking with a CANE, was put in HANDCUFFS at his own warehouse...
...for leaving cat food out for 7 stray cats he's cared for for 16 YEARS since his ONLY SON passed away!!!
The charge? "Feeding raccoons."
Florida put a grieving 77-year-old father in HANDCUFFS over a bowl of cat food.
His name is Louis Abbruzze.
In 2010, Louis and his wife lost their only son, and not long after, a few stray cats started showing up around their warehouse.
They did everything right.
Trapped them.
Got them vaccinated.
Got them fixed.
Found homes for as many as they could.
But even with all of that work, seven cats stayed.
Every night for 16 YEARS, Louis has cracked the warehouse door so those cats can come in out of the weather, eat, and sleep.
"These cats are not just cats," Louis said. "They're my children."
"That's what kept my wife and I going. We found something that made us human again."
Then, about a year and a half ago, the property's HOA hired new management.
Suddenly the door had to stay shut.
Then, somebody called Florida Fish and Wildlife and said a tenant was feeding raccoons.
FWC officers came out and warned him and he was cited.
Louis says he did exactly what they told him: feed the cats, and pull the food if a raccoon shows up.
"I started doing exactly what the FWC said," he said.
AND IT GETS WORSE.
On September 15th, the officers came back.
Not with another citation. With HANDCUFFS.
"He says, 'Now turn around and put out your hands,'" Louis said.
"Cuffed me. Put my cuffs on right there. I can't walk. I've got a broken ankle. I'm walking with a cane."
They put a 77-year-old man with a cane in a car an hauled him off from his own property on a MISDEMEANOR.
He says he was treated "as a common criminal."
Meanwhile, in the same state, violent offenders walk out on no bond every single day.
But the old man with the cats? Cuffs.
LET THE MAN FEED HIS FREAKING CATS!!!!!!!
The idea that higher education should only be pursued as a way to make as much money as possible is evidence we’ve entirely lost the plot of what it means to be human