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“At the core of liberalism is the spoiled child - miserable, as all spoiled children are, unsatisfied, demanding, ill-disciplined, despotic and useless.” PJ O’R

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@redheadranting @PiresVino @RayBooska @NickKristof

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@charlescwcooke @ByronYork Where “investigative journalist” is a euphemism for “dumbass.”

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@beyoncegarden All I can think of is Steel Magnolias and the armadillo groom’s cake. 😆

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@chappers06 @MinnOrchia @MrMennoTweets He sure is.

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@JonahDispatch Regal.

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@SamanthaNiblet4 There is nothing good or mannerly about compelled speech.

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@GarySinise @Snow65Snow Mr. Sinise, thank you for all you do for these bravest among us. ❤️

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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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@melboure @No4167 @PompeySteph You are either a trans-identifying male or parent with Transhausen by proxy.

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@redheadranting A Caesar salad should have romaine lettuce, Parmesan, anchovies, dressing - and whatever protein you choose. Subtractions are permitted, additions are not.

And kale should NEVER be eaten raw.

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@redheadranting @NotSolWalker Bailey looks HORRIBLE. And Mr. Carlson looks like the MyPillow guy. 😖

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@Gitmo99 Old, of course. The “new” version makes Arthur Carlson look like the MyPillow guy! 🤦🏻‍♀️

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@jk_rowling @latsot @David_Joseph The personality and the hairline.

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@scarimor @JerryClackson @Keri_J_Russell @Bird_OnA_Wire @womenmenmedical @jk_rowling I have a sneaking suspicion that “Keri” is a) an AGP male or b) a woman who has transed her child. My bet is on “a.”

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@Keri_J_Russell @scarimor @Bird_OnA_Wire @womenmenmedical @jk_rowling Speaking of which, tell us again about your heavy, 14-day periods, carrying a change of clothes in a bag, and how all the girls were mean to you - all of which sounds like a fetishists fantasy. I call BS on you.

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@No4167 @Keri_J_Russell @PeregrineT49351 @jk_rowling I question whether this person is actually a woman.

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@lauren_w67 A member of the public can’t make a motion at a school board meeting. 🙄

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@nero_joy_ Seriously? Who doesn’t obsessively check and recheck their exam times?

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@anniemae1000 @JustMyTake__ @ClownWorld No, she doesn’t. All group mailboxes work this way. It isn’t a postal service issue.

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