Sherri G

Proud American🇺🇲 Florida girl

[Sherri G @mrssherrig]

@WallStreetApes I live in an unincorporated area and pay for the sheriff's dept as a separate tax on top of the homestead taxes. When you actually look at how much your going to save excluding the school portion it isnt much.

[Sherri G @mrssherrig]

@FmrRepMTG Stop using democrats talking points. I would really like to know who is struggling? The kids that cant afford their Starbucks coffee?

[Joe Rogan Podcast News @joeroganhq]

Larry Kudlow: "I vote in the state of Connecticut. You don’t need a photo ID. You can vote if you just show them a credit card or a debit card, which anybody can get their hands on. I think it’s a scam."

[Sherri G @mrssherrig]

@realDonaldTrump Happy Father's Day!

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[Da Dad @RogueLeaderLA]

What the World Cup has shown us so far: Propaganda has worked immensely.

Americans are taught that our country is nothing special.

Europeans are taught that America is a horrible country.

Europeans visiting are reminding us that none of it is true.

[WhiskyShooter @WhiskyMAGA]

I actually feel bad for most Europeans that are currently visiting America for the World Cup games.
Can you imagine coming here for the first time and experiencing something so awesome and breathtaking as America. To only have to go back to their socialist hell hole countries in Europe.

Countries where their leaders don’t give a shit about them. Crowded cities with Islamist everywhere. Can’t own any firearms for the most part. Can’t even wave their own flags freely anywhere. Taxed to death and most new jobs go to foreigners.

I say almost feel bad because these same Europeans visiting have most likely voted for the leftest for decades that have ruined their countries. They never learn.

God, I’m so happy and blessed to be American!!🇺🇸

[Adno M @adnomur_6409]

I was just there for the first time as well and gotta say all the BS we're fed here in Europe (Netherlands myself) is sooo far off that it's incomprehensible. I mean, I always knew it was utter BS but seeing it with my own eyes was something else.

Best country I've ever visited by far. Next trip already booked for October!

Best moment was memorial day concert at the Capitol. Seeing people be proud of their country for a change and showing respect to the people who gave them their freedoms and fought so they can live peacefully, and the overwhelming respect to them is something we sadly don't have anywhere in Western Europe.

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[Yogi @Houseofyogi]

Bezos went on CNBC yesterday and said "You could double the taxes I pay and it's not gonna help that teacher in Queens."

And all the bureaucrats and socialists lost their minds.

Promise the teacher a raise. Tax everyone. Launder the money through Washington. Then blame the billionaire. We aren't morons Ro, we've seen this before.

Bezos said the bottom half of earners should pay zero federal income tax.

A nurse in Queens making $75K hands the IRS $12K a year. He said cut it to zero. She keeps her full paycheck. No bs refund, paperwork or shady government program.

Simple.

They won't do it. And you should ask yourself why.

They don't ACTUALLY want to help anyone. They just want to pretend they tried and get your votes while making you hate the ppl they scammed.

They want the money to flow through Washington, the city, every ponzi department and consultant and charity so each one can wet their beak.

By the time it reaches the teacher it's maybe $100, if that...

And then they'll blame the billionaire who hasn't paid their "fair share." Right Warren???

Lets take a gander at Mamdani's education budget.

NYC spends $42K per student per year, 3x the national average ($15K). Highest in America. Florida pays $9K.

NYC spends more per pupil than most people pay for private school or college. Its frickn insane.

The budget has gone up every year, enrollment has gone down. With all that money only 3 out of 10 kids can read in the 8th grade. Cuba can read better english and they speak spanish lol.

So where is the money going? Def not to teachers. but shh, ro doesn't want you to know that.

A starting teacher in NYC makes $65K. Mamdani's city spends $42K per kid, runs a $40B budget. You could pay every teacher six figures with that money and have 12 kids per a classroom. But thats too logical.

It goes to administrators. Consultants. Overtime. Unions. Friends and family businesses. Pensions for people who left a decade ago. Studies about studies. Buildings that take ten years to renovate. Everyone else but the kids, teachers and actual schools

THERE IS ENOUGH MONEY.

Politicians decide where the money goes. Teachers are underpaid because of how government spends money. Not because Bezos doesn't pay enough.

Then they stand outside a billionaire's apartment with a camera and tell you he's the problem.

That's the SCAM.

Ro Khanna says tax billionaires to fund $60K teacher salaries. NYC already spends enough to fund $100K teacher salaries. The money's there, Ro. Your people are the ones who won't give it to her.

Federal level is the same story. DOE spending up 649% since 2000 and kids aren't any smarter. GAO found $186 billion in improper payments last year. $3 trillion in errors since 2003. It’s criminal.

Stop taxing the nurse. No bureaucracy. Just let the woman keep her full paycheck.

Outrage is deflection.

They'd rather she pay.

Because her keeping her own money doesn't fund the machine and they lose the one thing that keeps the whole racket going: a billionaire to blame.

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

I am the Chairman and CEO of Vornado Realty Trust. Eighty-four years old. Seven buildings in Midtown Manhattan. I said what I said.

I said "tax the rich" is the equivalent of a racial slur. I said it at REBNY. Into the microphone. Eight hundred people. Median net worth in that room was north of $240 million, I know because our CFO ran the guest list through a Bloomberg terminal as a joke, and then it wasn't a joke. And when I said it, twelve people applauded. The rest nodded. One woman in the third row mouthed, "Finally." I saw her.

Sharon, my communications advisor, Columbia, $430,000 a year, very bright, Sharon wants me to walk it back. She drafted something. "Mr. Roth's comments were intended to highlight the emotional impact of political rhetoric on business communities." I read it. I put it in the trash can on my desk. Not the recycling. The trash. Here's my clarification: I understated it.

"Tax the rich" is worse than a slur. A slur is just a word. It doesn't come with a CBO score. Nobody is introducing a bill called the Racial Slur Implementation Act of 2026. But there are seventeen active proposals in Congress, I had Sharon count them, seventeen proposals designed to take more of my money. My money. Mine. Money I acquired by being better at acquiring Manhattan commercial real estate than anyone alive for four consecutive decades. That is not a crime. That is a record.

I pay property taxes on $18.2 billion in assessed assets. $412 million a year. Say it again: four hundred and twelve million. I carry that number. It's the first thing I think about when I see a protest sign. I think: I pay more in property tax than the entire annual budget of the city of Fort Lauderdale. I looked this up. Fort Lauderdale: $408 million. Steve Roth: $412 million. I am a small city. And the city doesn't get screamed at.

My effective tax rate last year was 11.4 percent. I say this because I believe in transparency and because I'm not ashamed of it. The rate reflects the legal structure of real estate investment trusts, depreciation schedules Congress established in 1986, and carried interest provisions that both parties have voted to preserve for forty years. I did not write these laws. I organized my entire financial existence around them with the help of nine full-time tax professionals who have offices on the 38th floor of 888 Seventh Avenue, which I also own. Their office is in my building. Their work protects my buildings. This is not a loophole. Sharon calls it a loophole. I've told her: a structure maintained by nine attorneys across four decades is not a loophole. A loophole is something you slip through once. This is architecture. This is the foundation. This is the building.

Last Tuesday, same as every Tuesday, I walked past 1290 Sixth Avenue. My building. And there was a man. Same man as last week. Same sign: "Billionaires Pay Your Fair Share." He was standing on my sidewalk. My literal sidewalk — my company owns the ground lease. He was maybe thirty. He was wearing a jacket I would estimate cost $60. My lunch that day was $114. For one. I am telling you this not to boast but because these are facts. He has decided I'm his enemy. Based on a number he saw on a Forbes list. He doesn't know what I pay. He doesn't know what my buildings cost this city in construction jobs and lease revenue and foot traffic. He knows one number. He has made one judgment.

I see him every Tuesday. I've started to notice things. He brings coffee from the cart, not the Starbucks. He has a backpack that looks heavy. He doesn't look unhealthy. He looks like he probably works somewhere, but not on Tuesdays. I've wondered: does he have a job? Does he have a building? Does he have anything that depends on him the way 4,200 employees depend on me? I suspect not. And yet he has opinions about my tax rate.

I gave $22 million to charity last year. The Met. NYU Langone. Mount Sinai. I gave a building to NYU. Not money for a building — a building. The Steven Roth Residence Hall. It houses 400 students. That man with the sign has never housed 400 students. He hasn't housed one. He gives cardboard. I give structures. This is not a comparison I'm making to flatter myself. It's just arithmetic.

When I said what I said at REBNY, I was saying what every person in that room believes and none of them will say publicly because they have communications advisors and the communications advisors all went to Columbia and they all say "unhelpful." I'm eighty-four. I'm too old for helpful. I'm too old to perform restraint for people who hate me for something I can't change.

I didn't choose to be rich. I chose to be good at one thing for a very long time, and this is what happened. You don't punish someone for that. You don't legislate against someone for that.

My net worth fluctuates between $3.8 and $4.1 billion depending on the quarter. I fluctuate more in a fiscal week than that man on my sidewalk will earn in his life. Both of these are facts. Only one of them is considered polite to say.

They want me to apologize.

I'll be dead in ten years. Twenty if I'm lucky. And they'll still be renting my buildings.

[mike bski @BskiMike22802]

Dear @AOC,

Ah yes. The $50 billion wage theft number. I have been waiting for someone to trot that one back out, because it never gets old watching a congresswoman who just flew on a PRIVATE JET during the "Fighting Oligarchy" tour -- at a reported $15,000 an hour to charter, by the way -- lecture the rest of us about workers not getting what they are owed.

Let us talk about ACTUAL theft for a moment, since you brought it up.

The Social Security system has collected mandatory payroll taxes from American workers for decades and operates exactly like what you would call a Ponzi scheme if a private citizen ran it -- early investors paid by later ones, with no actual reserve, and a trust fund that holds nothing but IOUs from the Treasury. But that is apparently the GOOD kind of theft.

Then there is the program called SUPPLEMENTAL Nutrition Assistance. You know what the S stands for? I teach anatomy for a living, so I am genuinely fascinated by the data. The USDA -- not a conservative think tank, the USDA itself, the agency that runs the program -- found that 39% of adult SNAP recipients are obese. Women enrolled in SNAP? 52% obese, compared to 40% for low-income women who never enrolled. And the single largest category of SNAP purchases? Sugary drinks. Nine billion dollars a year in Mountain Dew and energy drinks from a program called SUPPLEMENTAL NUTRITION ASSISTANCE.

I own a dog. My vet prescribes a specific diet for her. If I feed her that diet AND let her vacuum up table scraps and Milk Bones all day, and she gets fat and diabetic and goes blind and needs daily insulin shots, would I be right to blame the vet? That is what is happening here. The "supplemental" in SNAP stopped being supplemental a long time ago. That is not the vet's fault -- and it is not the taxpayer's fault either. But someone keeps signing the checks.

And you want to talk about "unearned wealth?"

Every single dollar I spend to feed my family of six -- and I do it on a teacher's salary for about $520 a month by shopping at Aldi and cooking real food -- is a dollar I EARNED. Every dollar a business owner risks to start a company, hire people, buy equipment, and make payroll while absorbing 100% of the risk when things go wrong, is a dollar that was EARNED. The CEO takes the loss when the company fails. The employee finds a new job. But apparently Quinn's Second Law applies here: what liberals accuse conservatives of doing is exactly what they are actually doing. You cannot earn a billion dollars? Meanwhile, @AOC has enjoyed book deals, speaking fees, and congressional salary while cosplaying as the exploited working class. If the elevator in your logic went all the way to the top floor, you might notice the irony. It does not.

Quinn's Twenty-Fifth Law also applies rather neatly: liberals are extraordinarily gifted at giving away other people's money. It requires zero courage, zero sacrifice, and zero skin in the game to stand at a podium and declare that someone else's success was not really earned.

I keep seeing Democrats say "TAX THE RICH" when they ARE rich -- not only knowing the loopholes but writing them into law for their own use. I have zero interest in hearing about wealth inequality from someone who cannot bring themselves to fly commercial. Lead by example. Pay DOUBLE what the IRS says you owe. File with nothing but the standard deduction. Not one itemized line. Then I will start listening. Until then, all foam, no beer.

Because here is what the science teacher in me needs to point out: when your program designed to fight hunger produces an obesity epidemic, and your program designed to lift workers produces permanent dependency, and your program designed to guarantee retirement produces an unfunded liability -- at some point, Quinn's First Law is not a coincidence. Liberalism always produces the EXACT OPPOSITE of its stated intent. Always.

If you want to talk about theft, @AOC, let us talk about the $9 billion in soda the NUTRITION program buys every year, the fraud waste and abuse happening in Ohio and Minnesota and most other states that DOGE keeps finding, and the forced confiscation of payroll taxes for a Social Security system that has about as much fiscal soundness as a screen door on a submarine.

But I suspect you will not want that conversation. Because facts, as Jim Quinn noted, are the enemy of liberalism.

@JoJoFromJerz @catturd2 @GuntherEagleman

IF you agree: LIKE this post so the algorithm shows it to people who need to read it. SHARE this. COMMENT below -- do you think the S in SNAP still stands for "supplemental"? Tell me.
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But what do I know -- I am only a science teacher who actually reads the USDA's own data instead of blaming the vet while handing out Milk Bones.
#MAGA #Veterans #Trump

[Ari Fleischer @AriFleischer]

If you want to know why Donald Trump was elected, watch Barack Obama’s attack speech yesterday at Jesse Jackson’s funeral. As he did throughout his presidency, he created a straw man to describe Republicans as bigots who force the American people to “turn on each other”.

He said similar crap when he was President and the GOP was the party of Bush, McCain and Romney. It’s the language of bitterness and resentment that makes good people recoil to be described that way.

Obama is one of the most divisive figures in US history, except he is celebrated by the MSM because they are partisans. They take sides and loved and protected Obama.

It’s no wonder a tough, no BS, bull in the China shop emerged. That person was a fed up Trump, who broke the MSM by not caring what they thought. He showed Rs they could punch back against the Ds and win. His rise coincided with the welcome birth, at long last, of conservative media which gave voice to the voiceless who had been forced to consume the prejudices of the MSM.

I can’t stand Obama. He was weak, patronizing, condescending and he put America last.

But having listened to him yesterday, I reminded the only good thing he did was help elect President Trump.

[Kevin Quintero. @VargasKevi23363]

Mi madre me llamó 17 veces esa noche.
Yo estaba ocupado.
Tengo 29.
Ella 58.

No era urgente.
Eso pensé.
Estaba en una reunión.
Luego en el gimnasio.
Después salí con amigos.

—Luego la llamo —dije.
No llamé.

A las 11:43 pm entró otro mensaje.
“Cuando puedas, hijo.”
Nada más.

Sin drama.
Sin reclamos.

Al día siguiente desperté tarde.

Tenía 4 llamadas perdidas de un número desconocido.

Era el hospital.

—Su madre ingresó anoche —dijo una voz tranquila.

Sentí un vacío en el estómago.
—¿Está bien?

Silencio breve.

—Llegó sola. Dijo que no quería molestar a su hijo.

Manejé sin sentir las manos.

La encontré en una camilla.
Con oxígeno.
Con los ojos cerrados.

Cuando me vio, sonrió.

—Estabas ocupado —susurró.

Quise explicarle.
Quise justificarme.
Quise mentir.

No pude.

Me tomó la mano.

—Tranquilo. Ya pasó.
Eso dolió más que cualquier reclamo.
Se recuperó.
Volvió a casa.

Pero algo cambió en mí.

Esa noche revisé mi historial de llamadas.

Durante años, siempre era ella quien llamaba primero.
Siempre era ella quien insistía.
Siempre era ella quien esperaba.
Yo solo respondía cuando podía.
Mientras manejaba de regreso entendí algo que nadie te advierte:

El día que tus padres dejan de llamarte tanto…
no es porque aprendieron a respetar tu espacio.

Es porque aprendieron a vivir sin él.

Y hay silencios que no vuelven a sonar igual.

[Sarah Sizzle @sizzle_sarah]

If you spend all year supporting Democrat policies that turn your city into a dumpster fire, please don’t vacation in Florida just to get away from the BS you created.

Sincerely,

Floridians. 🌴 🇺🇸

[Paul A. Szypula 🇺🇸 @Bubblebathgirl]

Budweiser decided to go back to patriotism for their Super Bowl ad.

Now that’s refreshing.

[Jon Root @JonnyRoot_]

There seems to be a lot of confusion & backlash, especially from the Christian community, about Kid Rock‘s performance during TPUSA‘s All-American Halftime Show.

I believe I can clear things up…

Kid Rock started his set by performing “Bawitdaba”, which came out in 1999. It a vulgar song, referencing topless dancers, drinking, crooked cops, bastards, etc. Hearing that was a shock to a lot of us. Rightfully so. It felt worldly, which I believe was the point…

Next, there was an acoustic set with two people playing a Christian hymn. It was meant to be an emotional bridge to what came next…

Finally, it transitioned to Kid Rock, his stage name, being introduced back to the stage as Robert Ritchie, his birth name. He then played a revised version of “Til’ You Can’t”, which included lyrics about Jesus Christ. He also spoke about Jesus’ sacrifice on the cross, encouraged people to follow Christ, and to read their Bibles.

This was supposed to be an artistic way of portraying a redemption story.

I don’t know Kid Rock’s walk with Christ, but he used this moment to point people to Christ, and I rejoice in that (Philippians 1:15-18)

[Thrilla the Gorilla @ThrillaRilla369]

Property tax is just a tax on unrealized gains and I'm tired of pretending it's not.

You buy a house for $300k. Years later, market goes up, assessor says it's worth $600k now. Boom—your tax bill jumps, even though you haven't sold a damn thing, pulled equity, or seen a dime of cash from that "gain." You're paying every year on paper wealth that only exists on Zillow or some county spreadsheet.

We lose our minds when politicians float taxing unrealized stock gains for billionaires ("muh forced sales!"), but grandma gets hit with the same thing on her family home and we're supposed to call it "paying for schools and roads"? Nah.

It's a wealth tax dressed up as a service fee, and it only feels fair because we've normalized it for centuries. Once the mortgage is paid off, you should OWN it outright—no annual ransom to the county just because your neighborhood got trendy.

Abolish property taxes on primary residences. Tax consumption if you must, but stop pretending "ownership" means you rent from the government forever.

[🇺🇸🇺🇸DADA🇺🇲🇺🇲 @BredsguardDalen]

Perfectly stated 🔥🔥

[mike bski @BskiMike22802]

Dear Young Americans Wondering Why You Can't Afford a House,

Let's talk about something uncomfortable: how the feminist movement accidentally destroyed housing affordability for your generation. This isn't about opposing women's rights - it's about confronting economic realities nobody predicted.

In 1970, about 43% of women worked outside the home. Most families ran on a single income. That one paycheck covered the mortgage, bills, and still left room for savings. Housing prices reflected what ONE INCOME could afford. Families had a backup plan.

Then women entered the workforce in massive numbers. Sounds empowering, right? Except when you DOUBLE THE LABOR SUPPLY without doubling prosperity, basic economics kicks in. Wages got hammered through saturation. The feminist movement promised liberation, but what actually happened was the devaluation of female labor while destroying the single-income household that gave families stability.

Here's what nobody talks about: women entering the workforce were so excited about their newfound empowerment that they accepted LOWER WAGES. After all, they were just "second earners" supplementing their husband's income. Why fight for competitive pay? This wage suppression became the norm, and employers suddenly had twice as many workers willing to accept less. Flood the market with labor, and wages drop. Economics 101.

Housing prices, meanwhile, adjusted upward to match what TWO-INCOME HOUSEHOLDS could afford do to lending based on income and not affordability. In 1970, median home prices ran about 2.2 TIMES median household income. Today? Over 5 TIMES. Your grandparents bought their house on dad's factory salary. You need BOTH PARENTS WORKING FULL-TIME just to qualify for the same mortgage.

The devastating irony? Feminism fought for women to have the CHOICE to work. The economic consequences ELIMINATED that choice. Your grandmother could stay home if she wanted. Today? Both parents MUST work just to maintain the same standard of living. The very choice feminism promised got destroyed by the economic reality it created.

This is what Elizabeth Warren called the "TWO-INCOME TRAP." She studied over 2,000 bankrupt families and found something shocking: two incomes didn't make families MORE secure. It made them MORE VULNERABLE. Two-income families filed for bankruptcy more often than single-income families.

Run the math. Partner one earns $70,000, partner two earns $50,000. That second income gets taxed at HIGHER MARGINAL RATES stacked on top of the first, leaving maybe $32,000 take-home. Subtract childcare at $15,000 per kid per year, second car costs, work clothes, convenience spending from exhaustion, lost household productivity. That $50,000 second income nets maybe $2,000 annually. Sometimes it's NEGATIVE. Families work harder, see each other less, and come out BEHIND.

Over 60% of married couples with kids now have both parents working. Not by choice, but by necessity. The system demands it. Opting out means financial ruin or tough choices with strict budgeting. The "liberation" feminism promised became an economic prison. In 1970, families spent about 25% of income on housing. Today? Somewhere between 35-45%, both parents work full-time, and they're STILL one medical emergency away from collapse.

This isn't about whether women should work. It's about recognizing that MASSIVE SOCIETAL CHANGES carry economic consequences nobody calculated. The feminist movement achieved workplace equality but created an economy where BOTH parents must work perpetually just to maintain what one income used to provide. Your generation inherited a world where having a stay-at-home parent became financially impossible for most families.

That's not progress. That's just expensive equality with fewer choices and less security.

But what do I know? I'm just someone who understands that good intentions don't override economic realities, and that doubling the labor supply without addressing housing supply creates exactly the crisis you're living through.
#HousingCrisis #Feminism #Progressive