@RNCResearch Holy crap you complete hypocrite. Quick, pull up Ro Khanna’s statements on Trump. I’m sure they are identical. At least try to hide your hypocrisy and complete hackery.
@kenklippenstein Lady, I’m sorry but you are not a teenager anymore. No one is picking on your favorite candidate. You’ve gone so long with your Party telling you they’re the only moral choice that rules only apply to your enemies. Grow up.
Milton Friedman's greatest regret.
The federal government discovered the perfect crime in 1943: make employers collect taxes before workers ever see their paychecks. You think you earn $60,000 per year, but you actually earn $75,000 and hand over $15,000 to politicians without ever touching it. The psychological difference is enormous.
Before payroll withholding, Americans wrote quarterly checks directly to the Treasury. Picture yourself sitting at your kitchen table, writing a $3,750 check to the IRS every three months. The pain was immediate and visceral. Politicians faced constant pressure to justify every dollar because citizens felt the extraction in real time.
Withholding transforms this concrete loss into an abstract accounting entry. Your employer becomes an unpaid tax collector, and you never experience the actual cost of government. Worse, most people celebrate their tax refunds as government generosity rather than recognizing them as interest-free loans they provided to politicians. The Treasury collects your money throughout the year, spends it immediately, then returns your own cash and receives gratitude.
This system enables the explosion in government spending you witness today. Defense contractors billing $640 for toilet seats, agricultural subsidies for corn syrup, and congressional salaries for 535 people who rarely show up to work. When taxation feels painless, voters stop demanding accountability for how their money gets spent.
Milton Friedman helped design withholding as a wartime emergency measure and later called it his greatest regret. Free market economists recognized that the psychological pain of direct taxation creates political pressure for fiscal restraint. The temporary always becomes permanent in government hands, and the emergency justification disappears while the extraction mechanism remains forever.
It's not that hard. The left lets institutions and communities break down to a point of total degradation to prove why more government and non profits are the answer. The goal is to purposely not solve problems and make life and safety worse. See the entire defund the police movement and homelessness nonprofits in California. Gavin Newson promised to end homelessness and instead it ballooned on purpose.
This is why there was such enormous flip out over Trump renovating the reflecting pool or spencer Pratt's campaign.
Once people realize that things can be improved a lot of nonprofits and public union/money dries up.
There is a reason why cities like Chicago Los Angeles Portland Seattle and now Denver all look the same because they are all run by the same people running the exact same scam.
Mostly the concern I see on the political right over AI is cultural because there's nothing more that the political left and the Democratic Party wants them to get their claws into AI.
Because once an AI is programmed to tell people that boys can become girls it's the death of truth. Data centers being built isn't the problem, the data in those data centers is.
How are Democrats cheating in L.A.?
Let me show you…
There are 26 registered voters at this toilet in Los Angeles.
I’m not kidding. I have the voter records. See for yourself. The only thing here is a stinky port-a john inside an empty parking lot.
No homes. No mailboxes. No businesses. Yet TWENTY SIX ‘people’ are casting ballots here.
Straight-up voter fraud out in the open. This just a glimpse of what’s happening under Gavin Newsom.
This is why California desperately needs Voter ID — and we must pass the Save Act NOW.
@D2theM2theH@MattSeedorff@spencerpratt@KarenBassLA Amazing how randomly everybody there had a Karen Bass sign and had to endure a whoop whoop session. No one dropped their ballot and left, they all stood there and said ‘Yassss, queen!’
Totally not staged a week before voting ended. Bass there just to drop off ballot. 😐
@charliehummer4@MiamiHardline@ClayTravis@AOC Also, it needs to be said that that voice grating on your ears with her annoying screeching is so off putting it’s hard to get through anything she says.
@DuaneStorey@BraedenSorbo Yes, exactly the same thing. Amazing that you could see it this way. Most of the ‘unhoused’ are in pressed shirts driving around abiding the law.
“Minnesota sent taxpayer money to a ‘healthcare company’ for 26 YEARS."
Nick Shirley went to the address on file.
IT DOESN’T EXIST.
26 years of funding. No office. No staff. No operation.
If fraud this obvious goes unnoticed for decades, CORRUPTION is incentivized.
@atrupar Oh no! We can’t let him exist in polite society. Must shame him and run him out of the league.
This othering of other people and views is pathetic. Get over your litmus testing.
@FlHeart@Carolinagirlclt@EWErickson@DanaBashCNN@CNN I guess Talerico finds it important enough to inform everyone about but wouldn’t adopt it into his governance? Therefore it’s something he wouldn’t advance? You can focus on gas prices as well as crazy presumptions at the same time.
TMZ Founder Harvey Levin finally opens up and tells the truth about what Democrats have done to Los Angeles
“I'm not only a born and raised Los Angelino, but I'm second generation. My dad was born and raised in LA, so this is my life. And I have seen this city just fall apart over the last 8-9 years, but especially the last 4 years
The homeless problem is out of control in this city. I've been chased by people, a guy with a hammer, walking out of my gym.
He chased me with a hammer.
I had a mentally ill woman, a homeless woman, take a boulder and trash my car and I caught her doing it, and I realized there is nothing I can do. What am I going to do, get her arrested? I mean, what is that going to do? Am I going to sue her? So I literally looked at my car, watched her walk away, and said, "I live in Los Angeles…."
It's really sad when people see stuff like this happening”
I want to her very crystal clear. We DO NOT have to live like this. California and Los Angeles do not have to be like this
We have to mass deport that insane amount of illegals that have poured across the border from Mexico into California for decades and then put the homeless in mandatory treatment
But the most important thing is, new leadership. Vote Red, vote for Republicans
California elections are rigged and we all know it, illegals are voting. Fixing California elections must be a federal priority
@PatAdams96@RyanSaavedra Democrats only like Democracy when everyone agrees with their dumb asses.
They ARE the authoritarians they claim to hate.
https://t.co/Ez1AU4xUmH