Kevin Ryan

Software Engineer. Computers are not magic, but they sure seem it. Niagara Univeristy MBA. Almost a hockey player. Insta: @kryjelly

[Brandon Gill @realBrandonGill]

Remember who you are, American. 🇺🇸

[Barstool Sports @barstoolsports]

Happy 250th birthday to the greatest country that’s ever existed 🇺🇸

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

Why is it ‘cancelled’ in the U.K. but ‘canceled’ in the U.S.?

Because we gave them that L in 1776.

[Buffalo Sabres @BuffaloSabres]

Our coach of the year.

[Kevin Ryan @kryjelly]

@CarloColaiacovo You’re right that was embellishment can’t believe that missed it

[Kevin Ryan @kryjelly]

@stoolpresidente @spittinchiclets

[Kevin Ryan @kryjelly]

@justinthom97982 @rmc_1492

[BuffaloDPW @DPWBuffalo]

Please be patient while our crew is en route to Montreal to dispose of the trash officials, habs fans and ESPN correspondents.

[Kevin Ryan @kryjelly]

@sh1ttin_me_123 Legitimately the most one sided ref/commentator combo I have ever seen or heard. It was insufferable and a disgrace. Surprised their goalie didn’t flop into the 4th row when his own player hits him here

[Labatt Blue Light @LabattUSA]

These announcers are trash.

[Bucky Gleason @ByBuckyGleason]

Nothing in this clip surprises me, including fans helping security pick up the very barrier that was designed to keep them contained.

[Paul Bissonnette @BizNasty2point0]

Look at that building.

[Buffalo Sabres @BuffaloSabres]

This thing of ours is forever, Buffalo.

[Kevin Ryan @kryjelly]

@RapSheet @nflnetwork Did he just say “all those weapons”? Are the weapons in the room with us? WR1 in the playoffs was on another team’s practice squad for 3/4 of the season

[Bullish @TheBullishTradR]

We got another first in @NFL history.

A @BuffaloBills wide receiver catches and is down with possession of the ball and AFTER the fact Denver defense “strips the ball” for an “interception”.

The @NFL is 100% rigged.

The @NFLOfficiating can fck right off. 🖕

[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…

[ZUBY: @ZubyMusic]

If everyone had to pay taxes as a lump sum payment once per year, like many business owners, I am convinced there would finally be a revolution.

[Peter St Onge, Ph.D. @profstonge]

"When you earn a dollar, your employer is taxed for paying you (payroll tax).

"You are then taxed before it hits your bank account (income tax).

"When you spend that dollar, it is taxed again (sales tax).

"If you decide to invest that dollar, you are taxed (capital gains tax).

"Even when you save that dollar—in your bank account or in your piggy bank—it is continually devalued (inflation tax) by Congress’s spending, borrowing, and money-printing addiction."

[Dave Portnoy @stoolpresidente]

Happy birthday to the greatest country in the world and it’s not particularly close. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸