Jason Bowen

Husband and proud father of 3 great kids.

[Jason Bowen @bowenjason782]

@MattWalshBlog They need to focus on the corporate greed, the wars have little to no effect on the things they claim it does. It’s just a convenient excuse that ignorance just accepts as truth. It’s corporate greed

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

An entire empire was overthrown over a two percent tax on a breakfast beverage.

Look at what you tolerate now.

You are taxed when you earn it. Taxed when you spend it. Taxed when you save it. Taxed when you invest it.

And when you die, they tax whatever is left.

That is not a system. That is a harvest.

You commute in a car you paid sales tax to buy. You drive it on roads you were already taxed to build. You fill it with gas taxed by the gallon.

When you sell that car, the next buyer pays sales tax on it again. The same car. Taxed every time it changes hands.

You arrive at a job where your salary is cut before it ever touches your hands.

If you work for yourself, you pay both sides. Two people on paper. Neither one keeps what they earned.

Then you go home.

Every bill you open has a government standing behind it with its hand out.

You buy a house with money they already took their share of. Then they charge you property tax on it every year for the rest of your life.

You want to renovate your own kitchen. You need a permit. You want to build a deck on your own land. You need a permit.

You pay for the property. Then you pay for permission to use it.

Stop paying property tax and they seize your home.

Not because you missed a mortgage payment. Because you missed a payment to the government for the privilege of keeping what is already yours.

You do not own your home. You rent it from the state.

If you leave something behind for your children, they are taxed on what you were already taxed to earn.

The same wealth. Taxed at every stage of your life. Then taxed one final time because you had the audacity to die.

They found a way to monetize your absence.

We are told this is the price of civilization.

It is not. It is architecture.

The most effective prison ever built is the one where the inmates believe they are free.

They did not take your freedom. They priced you out of it.

If you kept the full value of your labor, you would be free within years. Not decades. Years.

The system cannot allow that.

A machine built on consumption needs a consumer that never stops.

You did not sign a social contract. You were assigned one.

Now pay attention.

They spent decades perfecting the extraction of your productivity.

Now they are building the technology to replace you.

AI is not coming for your job because corporations are greedy. It is coming because a system that already takes half your output just realized it can take all of it. Without needing you in the equation.

You were never the point of this arrangement.

You were the input.

And the moment they engineer a cheaper one, you become a rounding error on a quarterly earnings call.

They did not build AI to free you. They built it to finish what the tax code started.

It was never about the tea. It was about the precedent.

Today we hand over half our waking lives and thank them for the potholes.

You do not live in a free economy. You live in a subscription you never signed up for.

And the penalty for canceling is everything you have.

[🇺🇸 Justice @250_Revolution]

Concerning Social Security payments, my contributions were made for 40 years on every salary I received. Those jobs may not have always been the work I wanted to be doing at the time, BUT I always had a job. The Social Security check is now (or soon will be) referred to as a "Federal Benefit Payment?" I'll be part of the one percent to forward this.

I am forwarding it because it touches a nerve in me, and I hope it will in you. Please keep passing it on until everyone in our country has read it. The government is now referring to our Social Security checks as a "Federal Benefit Payment." This isn't a benefit. It is our money paid out of our earned income! Not only did we all contribute to Social Security but our employers did too. It totaled 15% of our income before taxes.

If you averaged $30K per year over your working life, that's close to $180,000 invested in Social Security. If you calculate the future value of your monthly investment in social security ($375/month, including both you and your employers contributions) at a meager 1% interest rate compounded monthly, after 40 years of working you'd have more than $1.3+ million dollars saved! This is your personal investment. Upon retirement, if you took out only 3% per year, you'd receive $39,318 per year, or $3,277 per month.

That's almost three times more than today's average Social Security benefit of $1,230 per month, according to the Social Security Administration. (Google it – it’s a fact).

And your retirement fund would last more than 33 years (until you're 98 if you retire at age 65)! I can only imagine how much better most average-income people could live in retirement if our government had just invested our money in low-risk interest-earning accounts.

Instead, the folks in Washington pulled off a bigger "Ponzi scheme" than Bernie Madoff ever did. They took our money and used it elsewhere. They forgot (oh yes, they knew) that it was OUR money they were taking. They didn't have a referendum to ask us if we wanted to lend the money to them. And they didn't pay interest on the debt they assumed. And recently they've told us that the money won't support us for very much longer.
But is it our fault they misused our investments? And now, to add insult to injury, they're calling it a "benefit", as if we never worked to earn every penny of it.
Just because they borrowed the money doesn't mean that our investments were a charity!

Let's take a stand. We have earned our right to Social Security and Medicare. Demand that our legislators bring some sense into our government.
Find a way to keep Social Security and Medicare going for the sake of that 92% of our population who need it. Then call it what it is: Our Earned Retirement Income.

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[Kevin Dahlstrom @Camp4]

One of my contrarian takes:

Society peaked in the 80s, and it’s been in slow decline ever since.

It was the last era of widespread optimism. You can feel it in the music and movies.

“Excess meets innocence.”

The 80s also mark the end of the analog world—local economies, in-person everything, and a certain forced simplicity.

Malls, movie theaters, magazines, and BMX.

Then, beginning in the 90s, came the tidal wave of tech:

Mobile phones
The internet
Social media
AI

All incredible innovations, with lots of positives. But on the whole I think they’re *net negatives* for society.

We replaced a finite, real-world experience with an infinite, digital one.

Infinite information. Infinite comparison. Infinite distraction.

Human’s aren’t wired for that, and you can see the consequences all around us.

[Jason Bowen @bowenjason782]

@erat_perfect @Quak3r8 @texasrunnerDFW Yes it does.

[Jason Bowen @bowenjason782]

@mnbrownsfan @big_mike9169 Agree but swap 3. And 4.

[Jason Bowen @bowenjason782]

@NFL @Brandon_Aubrey @hbomax Refs suck. Why does the NFL not allow defense at all?

[Jason Bowen @bowenjason782]

@20th_Centurygal Steve Stevens , Eddie Van Halen, Steve Vai

[Jason Bowen @bowenjason782]

@RedEagleUpdates Huh? What happened?

[Jason Bowen @bowenjason782]

@CLEsportsTalk Yes

[Jason Bowen @bowenjason782]

@Browns Get Jeudy off the field. He serves no purpose. I would start Crowley and Bond.

[Jason Bowen @bowenjason782]

@karnsies817 Stavanski should be fired for punting on 4th and 1 when you are 3-10. What’s the point?

[Jason Bowen @bowenjason782]

@AntiLeftMemes It’s easier to get out when done. It’s also much safer to be able to pull straight out than back out. You can see more of your surroundings.

[Jason Bowen @bowenjason782]

@RealKhalilU lol. Leftover😂😂

[Jason Bowen @bowenjason782]

@byjohnmartin @SleeperBrowns For starters, he threw more than 3 yards down field. I’d rather watch 10 incomplete bombs on 3 rd down than Gabriel throw 20 3 yard completions.

[Jason Bowen @bowenjason782]

@elonmusknews30 👍

[Jason Bowen @bowenjason782]

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[Jason Bowen @bowenjason782]

@deeincle @Browns Maybe it’s time to give Columbus a run at this pro football thing. Cleveland has no idea what it’s doing.

[Jason Bowen @bowenjason782]

@BIGPLAY_Dave That doesn’t help when it’s always 3rd and 18.

[Jason Bowen @bowenjason782]

@PolymarketBlitz No way!! No thank you.