Matthew DeSutter

Farmer, ⚾️ Umpire, & 🏀 Referee

[Matthew DeSutter @MatthewKBT]

@LowBoomLowDrift I’m a little over 100

[Matthew DeSutter @MatthewKBT]

Red letter day, put it on the board

[Matthew DeSutter @MatthewKBT]

@ClayTravis It will take more than a decade for everyone to update into self driving vehicles, but the day is definitely on the way

[Geiger Capital @Geiger_Capital]

Happy Tax Day!

It’s good to remember that the Top 1% of earners pay 46% of all federal income taxes. The bottom 50% of America pays for just 2%.

[Carol Roth @caroljsroth]

On tax day, remember that the federal government takes in more than $5 trillion/year, which is more than the GDP of every country on the planet (except the US itself and China).

They still overspend by another $2 trillion.
They refuse to address rampant waste, fraud and abuse.

[Matthew DeSutter @MatthewKBT]

@dannykanell He potentially should be ejected for firing his bat so hard

[Jesse Kelly @JesseKellyDC]

This is so sad. Americans just watching themselves get poorer every single day while the scumbags in Washington do nothing.

[For all Curious @fascinatingonX]

BREAKING 🚨: Earth is tilting toward its next ice age in 10,000 years, new research reveals.

[FischerKing @FischerKing64]

Imagine you are a working father living in the Midwest, you make 75k a year. You can support your family, but you're not rich. You worry about paying for college. Then you read about some Somalian stealing $1m out of federal healthcare programs.

$1 million for the normal guy would eliminate an enormous amount of his stress. The college thing would be covered. Retirement wouldn't appear so daunting. It's why guys like this buy lottery tickets. And instead he pays into the system and watches "newcomers" make a complete ass out of him. This fraud is bad financially, but it just makes a mockery of all the hard work of normal people and tears away at the social fabric.

[Oilfield Rando @Oilfield_Rando]

Health care is ridiculously expensive because a shrinking group of people who have to pay for their own health care also has to pay for a growing group of people who don’t have to pay anything at all.

[Matthew DeSutter @MatthewKBT]

@RonDeSantis I agree on PNC. Your tickets are worth the cost there before you even see any baseball

[Mark Cuban @mcuban]

I don’t think people realize how much healthcare costs are driving big companies to fire and not hire.

It costs them $30k per family, per year for premiums and care. Most of that goes to the massive, vertically integrated insurance companies that send weekly bills that no one reviews in details. And it doesn’t include the company overhead to deal with it all. It’s usually the 2nd largest expense after payroll. Which is insane

It’s far easier to blame AI than it is to blame Healthcare costs.

Want to increase jobs, wages and improve affordability for every American ?

Break up the biggest insurance companies. Make divest non insurance companies. They don’t need thousands of subsidiaries. That’s how they game and abuse the system and increase costs for all of us.

Call your senator and tell them to support the BreakUp Big Medicine Bill by @HawleyMO and @SenWarren.

[Matthew DeSutter @MatthewKBT]

@robbystarbuck Your estate will still pay taxes after you die as well

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

California's Central Valley produces 80% of the world's almonds. Each almond requires 3.2 gallons of actual irrigation water to grow. Not rainfall. Actual tap water pumped from aquifers.

One gallon of almond milk requires 162 gallons of irrigation water. Compare that to dairy milk at 8 gallons of tap water per gallon, with the rest being rainfall that falls on pasture anyway.

But here's where it gets properly grim. Almonds bloom for exactly three weeks in February. During those three weeks, California needs every pollinating bee in North America transported to the Central Valley or the crop fails entirely.

Commercial beekeepers truck in 31 billion honeybees. That's two-thirds of America's entire managed bee population, all concentrated in one valley for three weeks. The bees are packed into trucks, driven across the country, dumped into almond groves drenched in pesticides, worked to exhaustion, then packed up and shipped to the next crop.

The mortality rate is catastrophic. Beekeepers report losing 30 to 50% of their hives annually. That's billions of bees dead. Not from natural causes. From being used as disposable pollination machines for your almond milk.

The pesticides don't help. Almond groves are sprayed with neonicotinoids which scramble bee navigation systems, fungicides which weaken their immune systems, and herbicides which eliminate the wildflowers they'd normally forage on between almond blooms.

Meanwhile the aquifer depletion is permanent. The Central Valley has sunk 28 feet in some areas from groundwater extraction. That water took 10,000 years to accumulate. It's being drained in decades for almond milk.

Your vegan latte killed more bees and used more water than a year's worth of dairy milk. But it's got "plant-based" on the label so you're definitely saving the planet.

[Anthony Pompliano 🌪 @APompliano]

This winter storm must have the global warming folks in shambles…

[Matthew DeSutter @MatthewKBT]

@realEstateTrent C’mon bro

[Matthew DeSutter @MatthewKBT]

@stoolpresidente It’s always good when you can admit it lol

[Kostas Moros @MorosKostas]

When the income tax first started, the rate was just 1% for most people ($20k back then is over $600k today), and even the top rate was only 7%.

That's how they got their foot in the door.

[Matthew DeSutter @MatthewKBT]

@Breaking911 Unfortunate that he also has to compete with Hunter Biden paintings

[Matthew DeSutter @MatthewKBT]

@BowTiedBroke If you are lucky enough to have people that truly care about you, you can’t risk leaving that type of problem behind.