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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. – Aristotle
Trust the Lord, not princes.

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@01199283_ @KingdomRebel86 @MattWalshBlog There is a specific tax policy proposal called the Fair Tax. Libertarians used to promote it. I'm agnostic on it but it's worth investigating. https://t.co/9fadFeuGPd

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@KingdomRebel86 @MattWalshBlog Basic math: a 6.2% SS tax on above-the-cap income is the same thing as raising their income tax on that income by 20-25%. Not counting the employer paid part.

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@01199283_ @Johndoe7388 @KingdomRebel86 @MattWalshBlog That's what the so-called Fair Tax does.

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@StephenKing Nonsense. "Girls" who vote in Maine and want an abortion have no obstacles.

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@KingdomRebel86 @MattWalshBlog You're promoting a 20-25% tax increase on individuals' earnings over $184,000. That sounds like the politics of envy and resentment. Very popular these days, I'm aware, but something wicked this way comes.

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@kaylavanw @TroyJackson207 Wait. Susan Collins also voted for Kagan and Sotomeyor, and against Barrett. So how is she to blame for Dobbs? Looks to me like she does her constitutionally assigned duty, that is to advise and consent on whether a person is qualified for the Court.

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@FeserEdward I refuse to use the word crisis in today's political discourse. When everything is a crisis, nothing is.

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@skumWgmi Remember when Preisdent Obama said our low-premium policies were "junk" because you had to pay a lot out of pocket for routine stuff, even if they really protected you from major medical costs? Remember they outlawed those policies?

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@ProfMJCleveland The Sunday School podcast from The Pillar gives plenty of historical biblical analysis of the readings.

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@GunnelsWarren Wow. So how would he come up with the liquid cash to pay the tax? Sell his companies? Let Uncle Sam run them? You do understand his net worth is tied up in shares of his businesses, not sitting in various banks, right?

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@shagbark_hick The Fair Tax.

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@PingreeHannah Wait. Is this to distract us from your lack of responses showing an understanding of how to change what's not working in Maine?

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@ChristopherHale Bruenig fails to note that Gad Saad distinguishes common compassion and empathy from an unreasoned empathy he calls suicidal. The latter extreme is not Catholic charity since it induces the empathizer to lay aside Catholic truths in order to elevate the feelings of the other.

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@WGME Wait. Did Troy make this apology aloud, in his own words, or was this a written statement he had his campaign release? In which case, he didn't write it.

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@robertshaftoe41 @TheMaineWire @iAmJoeSokol Props to your user name. Loved the Baroque Cycle.

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@realtimsharp Being is better than non-being. Pass it on.

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@JustinBerkobien And also, two guys getting married. And also, woman making herself available for sex before marriage. And also, man making himself available for sex outside of marriage.

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@mfjlewis It's this way: complete the FAFSA.
School makes a student aid offer consisting of grants (take something off the sticker price) and loans, combined with a 10-month payment plan for the remainder of that year's costs. Outside loans might be taken as well if family chooses.

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@MrCasey62 The prayers of a Catholic Mass of Christian Burial are entirely in response to the good news of salvation in Jesus Christ, IOW, the gospel, and Christian hope for the soul of the deceased. @Thatbrian

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truth

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At the height of its power and prosperity, America lost its capacity to transmit basic numeracy and literacy to a rising generation because it handed over pedagogy to a pseudo-scholarly establishment that paid a credentialed caste handsomely to propagate ruinous errors that conformed to moral vanities that it chose to prioritize over all other values