Mud

We aren't voting our way out of this.

[Mud @MillstoneReport]

The founding fathers were brilliant, but they never thought both sides would unite against the people, thereby neutering all checks and balances. The one thing they got right was the second amendment so WE THE PEOPLE can be the final check.

[CRIXUS @CRIXUSwasHERE]

WHO AGREES?👇😡

[Mud @MillstoneReport]

@MarinasHammer Wiggins... lol

[Mud @MillstoneReport]

@james_xond Yes but I’m homeless.

[Mud @MillstoneReport]

@vxylily Staying free of the succubus.

[Mud @MillstoneReport]

@abc4utah Sickening

[Thrilla the Gorilla @ThrillaRilla369]

Property taxes on primary residences are a tax on unrealized gains, and the double standard around it is glaring.

You buy a house for $300k with your after-tax dollars. Years later the market rises and the assessor says it’s now worth $600k. Your tax bill goes up—even though you didn’t sell, didn’t refinance, didn’t pull out a dime of equity. You’re paying higher taxes every single year on “wealth” that exists only on paper. That is the literal definition of taxing unrealized appreciation.

Politicians and pundits scream bloody murder when anyone suggests doing the exact same thing to billionaires’ unrealized stock gains. “It’s unfair! They’ll be forced to sell assets!” Yet the same logic is applied to your family home without a second thought. If the principle is wrong for Elon Musk’s Tesla shares, it’s wrong for grandma’s paid-off house.

The common defense—“It pays for schools and roads”—doesn’t hold up as justification for this specific mechanism. Those services are valuable, but tying their funding to the fluctuating paper value of your home creates a system where success (a nicer neighborhood, inflation, or simple supply and demand) is punished with a higher bill. Once the mortgage is gone, you still don’t truly own it. You’re a tenant with extra paperwork, paying annual rent to the government based on an assessment you don’t control.

This isn’t about hating government services. It’s about honest funding. Tax actual economic activity—consumption via a broad sales tax, realized capital gains, or user fees for specific services. Shift the burden to people who are actively spending or transacting in the economy instead of penalizing ownership itself. Other countries and even some U.S. localities have shown you can fund local government without treating primary homes like perpetual leaseholds from the state.

Ownership should mean ownership. Not “you own it until the county decides your paper equity went up.” Abolish property taxes on primary residences. The current system is a wealth tax dressed up as a service fee, and it’s long past time we called it what it is.

[Mud @MillstoneReport]

@KUTV2News Vile creatures. Every last one.

[ms @thisisnew_me1]

Welcome to The USA where:

$100 now feels like $10
$500 now feels like $50
$1000 now feels like $100

You’re taxed on absolutely everything.

A weekly grocery run costs you about $200.

Apartments that were around $1,200 a month 3 years ago now cost $2,800 a month.

[Mud @MillstoneReport]

I'm so old I remember overflowing my shopping cart with all the good stuff for under $100.

[Mud @MillstoneReport]

If it is the same guy, his description is likely why nobody has heard of this yet.

[Mud @MillstoneReport]

Last night just after 9:00. Went to check out what was happening and ran into a fenty folder on the sidewalk. SSL is a shithole.

[Mud @MillstoneReport]

I am 90% sure I know who this is and am awaiting verification. I believe he was recently prematurely let out of prison in Virginia. There is a booking in Salt Lake County jail with the name Samuel Lee Fields with charges that fit what happened here the other night.

[Mud @MillstoneReport]

@MarinasHammer An Indian-born pro-poo, pro-drug addict, pro-criminal politician matches the voter demographic of LA. She fits right in.

[SaltyGoat @SaltyGoat17]

Twisted liberal logic...

[Disagree Butter @disagreebutter]

You don't need that much money to win the election in CD3. You need that much money to buy it.

[Mud @MillstoneReport]

There have been 2 unreported shootings in my neighborhood over the last couple months. I wonder how many salt lake really gets. I’m sure it’s daily.

[Mud @MillstoneReport]

@Hot_Pepper76 Blockbuster and chill

[Mud @MillstoneReport]

@Marlayna29 I have none of those things, so I'm taking the money.

[C3 @C_3C_3]

Over the last 20 years…

Elections decided on Election Night:
Republicans: 52%
Democrats: 48%

Elections decided AFTER Election Night:
Republicans: 20%
Democrats: 80%

This is totally insane.

Nothing to see here…

[Mud @MillstoneReport]

@mcsuggafree I get skunked every time. I'm beginning to think there are no sardines there.