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@SahilBloom @CoachDanGo Is this just for the face or under eyes as well?

[david friedberg @friedberg]

why not just raise income tax rates?

because your real intent is not to just “provide healthcare”.

you’re masking that you are proposing the creation of, for the first time in the 250 years of this American republic, an organized government seizure of private property from citizens.

you’re calling it a “wealth tax” or a “billionaires tax” or “millionaires tax” or whatever nom du jour polls well. but at the end of the day, it’s the seizure of private property from citizens by the government. citizens that earned money, paid their fair taxes on those earnings (53% if they live in California) and are now being told they need to hand over after-tax assets because the government has failed to provide promised services with the revenue it’s collected, and are now re-casting their own failure to be a socio-economic inequity that must be justly resolved... a slippery slope that has never gone anywhere good (see economic effects in USSR, Cuba, Venezuela, France and Norway wealth tax etc.)

the American founders fled tyranny in Europe and this amazing nation was populated by immigrants (myself and your parents) from around the world not just looking for a “better life” but for a place where they could have freedom from tyrannical governments that can take what they want from private citizens. a great nation borne of property rights, the rule of law, and endowed freedoms to believe, speak, or act. these principles led to the greatest run of innovations, successes, and widespread increase in prosperity, for all citizens, ever seen.

the citizens, the individuals, not the institutions, delivered this progress. those who invented, who toiled, who bled, who sacrificed, who took risk and persevered, who led, and who changed the world, are not charlatans, kleptocrats, or oligarchs. they’re what made us all better off. prosperity is a measure of america’s success, not its failure.

it is your principle that is so offensive, as evidenced by the broad disdain for your flippant flirtation with the darkest of human fantasy - socialism. you and other neo-socialists have led so many of us to reflect on America’s history and what it is becoming. that now leads so many to consider, so unnecessarily, leaving their homes for a place where everyone stands up to shout down the principle you suggest. because if your ideas are now considered moderate, it’s clear this titanic is sinking.

that a “simple tax” of taking assets that have been earned, through toil and tribulation, rightly taxed, and preserved, should now be unjustly seized, is your solution to a problem of obvious government mismanagement and outright fraud, tells us that your true motivation lies not in giving people healthcare but in cutting down success and deleting the system of prosperity and opportunity for all.

i don’t care, and neither should anyone else, what the sum total market value of a private citizens private assets might be. it is none of my business and should be none of yours. because, again, once you open that pandora’s box, we might as well study Lord of the Flies … there is literally nothing stopping 51% of citizens demanding that their government go out and seize 100% of the private property of the 49%.

want to give healthcare to people in need? do your job and fix healthcare. make it affordable. want to be lazy about it? then do your job lazily and raise income taxes.

want to take private property from private citizens who have paid their fair share of taxes and legally earned their property, then honestly declare that it is envy, not inequity, that you strive to resolve…

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[Max Lugavere @maxlugavere]

I’m not voting for Trump

I'm voting against rising costs of gas and groceries

I'm voting to end wars that kill innocent people, and could lead to nuclear war

I'm voting for hurricane relief before free money for migrants

I’m voting against a world where your pets can be taken from you and euthanized for no reason

I'm voting against men in women’s sports

I'm voting against thousands of migrants placed in small towns without a vote from lifelong residents

I'm voting against defunding the police, and bailing out rioters

I'm voting against 13,099 murderers and 15,811 sex offenders being allowed to cross our border (*actual ICE statistic, as of Sept. 25, 2024)

I'm voting against taxpayer funded sex-change surgeries for prisoners and illegal aliens

I'm voting against aggressive lockdowns and forced, unproven vaccines

I'm voting against the current administration leaving our hostages to die with Hamas

I'm voting for free speech and against censorship

I’m voting for a primary process where voters have a choice

I'm voting against the cover-up of our President’s cognitive decline

I’m voting for us having a right to know who is really running our country

I'm voting against a mainstream media that values clicks and rage above truth and accuracy

I'm voting against the revolving door of food and pharma executives taking positions at what should be unbiased institutions, like the FDA and USDA

I'm voting for the chance to move the needle on chronic disease

I'm voting for those who run the government to be more like Tulsi Gabbard and RFK, and less like Nancy Pelosi and Gavin Newsom

I’m not just voting for a person, or even a party

I’m voting for sanity, safety, and a better America

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@DamonBruce Giants dodged a massive bullet with this one. His best years were in Houston when he was surrounded by studs. Even then he only hit >.300 1x. Not signing him for that amount of time/money is the best thing they've done this off season.

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@JJWatt @ChipotleTweets Bro, same. It's gotten out of hand.