During Italy's quarantine, Italian tenor Maurizio Marchini wanted to do something to spread joy amid all the sadness in Florence.
So climbed on to his balcony and serenaded the entire town.
Wow.
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Gio Reyna's first-ever FIFA World Cup goal was a trivela to seal it for the @USMNT ๐คฏ
It's the first four-goal outing for the US men's squad in a FIFA World Cup
Colorado hunters have until August 3rd to help get Initiative 302 on the ballot, a constitutional amendment that would make Colorado the 25th state to protect the right to hunt and fish. 125,000 signatures needed.
All the politicians on this platform complaining that Elon is worth a trillion dollars are not actual made about how much money he is worth. They are angry they don't get more of his money in taxes. #TaxationisTheft
ALERT: 'OutKick' founder and Fox News contributor Clay Travis torches the NFL for gouging their fans while violating the Sports Broadcasting Act of 1961.
"Most of your constituents are frustrated. They don't know how to find games, and they are having to pay far too much when they have the opportunity to actually watch those games. I don't know how many of you remember back in the day when you can have one remote control in your hand, and you can easily flip to any different game... They just want to be able to watch their favorite team and not have to struggle to do so."
To watch all the NFL games in 2025 on streaming, you would have needed Sunday Ticket, Netflix, Peacock, Amazon Prime Video, ESPN Unlimited, and NFL+, for a minimum price of $575, according to Fox News.
Milton Friedman's greatest regret.
The federal government discovered the perfect crime in 1943: make employers collect taxes before workers ever see their paychecks. You think you earn $60,000 per year, but you actually earn $75,000 and hand over $15,000 to politicians without ever touching it. The psychological difference is enormous.
Before payroll withholding, Americans wrote quarterly checks directly to the Treasury. Picture yourself sitting at your kitchen table, writing a $3,750 check to the IRS every three months. The pain was immediate and visceral. Politicians faced constant pressure to justify every dollar because citizens felt the extraction in real time.
Withholding transforms this concrete loss into an abstract accounting entry. Your employer becomes an unpaid tax collector, and you never experience the actual cost of government. Worse, most people celebrate their tax refunds as government generosity rather than recognizing them as interest-free loans they provided to politicians. The Treasury collects your money throughout the year, spends it immediately, then returns your own cash and receives gratitude.
This system enables the explosion in government spending you witness today. Defense contractors billing $640 for toilet seats, agricultural subsidies for corn syrup, and congressional salaries for 535 people who rarely show up to work. When taxation feels painless, voters stop demanding accountability for how their money gets spent.
Milton Friedman helped design withholding as a wartime emergency measure and later called it his greatest regret. Free market economists recognized that the psychological pain of direct taxation creates political pressure for fiscal restraint. The temporary always becomes permanent in government hands, and the emergency justification disappears while the extraction mechanism remains forever.
๐จ 5โญ๏ธ 2027 DL Marcus Fakatou on his Ohio State official visit ๐๐ฐ
At 6โ7โ, 275 pounds, Fakatou is an absolute force in the trenches โ and one of the most intimidating prospects in the 2027 class. ๐ฅ
@GovWhitmer Provide exact evidence of what we are going eliminate spending to pay for this. Not saying it's a bad idea, just need to be fiscally responsible with money that isn't yours.
Another five-star has arrived ๐ฌ
Five-star Chattanooga (Tenn.) Baylor School running back David Gabriel Georges has arrived in Columbus for his Ohio State official visit, sources tell @LettermenRow
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