Dying to the carnal self, being sanctified in Christ Jesus, battling princes & principalities. Oh, and having some fun. Humor can be niche satire, thus weird.
What God says about you is True.
Nobody else will judge you.
And you don’t judge yourself.
So, don’t treat yourself like shit.
Don’t put yourself too high.
Good news or bad news?
Depends on your heart
And read this again ☝️
@Kikichewy161417@smalls2672 its very much like rebelling against one’s upbringing, which is why it is mostly emotionally driven with intellectual justifications.
@EvacTony@TheProjectUnity Bad cops have a reputation as the power hungry kid who always wanted to be a hero/feared.
The English have traded those types for power hungry hall monitors and teacher’s pets.
Dont let go of the family at the center of yesterday's Supreme Court property tax ruling.
In 1991, Scott Pung bought a small three-bedroom home on half an acre for his wife and two children. It was their family home. When Scott died in 2004, his wife stayed there. When she died in 2008, their son and his family stayed. Same home, same family, more than two decades.
The whole time, it was their primary residence, taxed at the lower rate Michigan gives a family home. Then in 2010 an assessor decided, wrongly, that they should be taxed as if it were a second home. The family took it to court and won. The tribunal ruled they did not owe it.
The assessor's response, in her own words about the judge who ruled for the family: "I don't care what he says." She imposed the tax again. She left it off the original bill and added it later. When the family came in to pay, they brought a driver's license to prove it was their home, and paid what they actually owed.
It did not matter. Over roughly $2,242 that they did not owe and had already beaten in court, the county foreclosed. A trial court tried to give the home back over a notice failure. The county appealed to stop that. In 2018, after 27 years, the family permanently lost the home Scott Pung bought in 1991.
This is what the property tax can do. Not in theory. To a real family, over a bill that was never owed, because one official decided she did not care what the court said. And the Supreme Court said the Constitution will not make that family whole.
I reached out to the Pung family, and they gave me their blessing to share their story and this photo. My thanks to them, and my respect for the fight they carried all the way to the highest court in the land. It will help families they will never meet.
This is exactly why we are working to end the tax that made it possible.
Photo of Marc and Tia Pung at the U.S. Supreme Court, shared with their permission.
@RJSprouse@mcuban Specifically, rent freezing (rent control), where has it been successful?
Typical result? Unintended consequences - lower investment in real estate development, supply stagnates, and turnover slows (ex. older couple in 3 bedroom place stay put, while families can’t move up)
I’m spamming my own timeline with Pastor Munir’s needs because he needs the help and is a faithful steward of the gospel of Christ.
Please give a little or a lot, according to your heart and means.
@bopman15@jeremykauffman you don’t know have you seen the books?
Have you done a cost analysis?
Do you not also measure whether or not something is worthwhile for you?
That’s what they’ve done. Too much theft and it’s not even worth it for them to have the store there, so there’s nothing to steal
@nabeelazeez@Sargon_of_Akkad But Isa said, ““I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
If you had known me, you would have known my Father also. From now on you do know him and have seen him.”