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Get on nostr: Bitcoin swag:

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@RonMari080898 @Acyn @zerohedge cope

[Handre @Handre]

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.

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@luke_broyles Congrats on the accomplishments!

[Alexander Leishman 🇺🇸 @Leishman]

With all of the exploits in DeFi, Zcash, and all of the other insanely complex crypto systems we are reminded again that Bitcoin’s simplicity is its biggest feature.

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Just played @RhinoBitcoin's SatsDrop! 🎯 https://t.co/21lJlFFoCn

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@LOBlount1 @Rajatsoni that's a relief to know that bitcoin is still for everyone. Unfortunately it still has a ways to go to over take cash as the preferred medium

[Muhammad Mazen @mhmd_s09]

One of the most brutal scenes in human history has been leaked.

Footage from an Israeli aircraft shows thousands of starving Palestinians running towards an aid truck, before it bombs and kills them all.

A video that the world must never forget.

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@M3othra012 @FPerrefort too large of a carbon footprint comrade. minus 100 points from your social credit score

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@M3othra012 @FPerrefort I agree, conservatives are retarded.

Are you doing your part by eating bugs to save the planet?

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@redpillb0t you can already be your own ₿ank

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@FPerrefort From the Club of Rome:

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@M3othra012 @FPerrefort True. With so much melting at the caps I had to paddle my way to work this morning

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@Coinvo New York no longer identifies as a state, but as a meme

[ODELL @ODELLXYZ]

- no support for bitcoin payments
- no support for self custody
- no support for open source
- no support for samourai

exec teams making millions dumping paper on retail

orange ties only screech same team when you call out grift

stack real bitcoin, not that fake shit

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Just played @RhinoBitcoin's SatsDrop! 🎯 https://t.co/21lJlFFoCn

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@wizZeddd @KAIROSMMA2 "It doesn’t matter if he’s right about anything."

100% certified brain rot

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@coffeebreak_YT how come I can't find your video you did with @PunterJeff ?

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@JayDyer will this be part of a cumpendium?

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@crocoduck_king if that's true, how do you know that we're attacking Iran for the reasons they said we are?