Sic Bones

Pro #1A, Pro #2A. Block the truly stupid, they only exist to make the world a dumber place.

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Yesterday, I realized how tired I am of leftists.

Today, I realized how tired I am of cowards.

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@Wolfen_Moon2 Hear me out, this but scaled up to human-sized.

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@seahawksfan2314 @BleacherReport Right? How dare he not prioritize your sports betting.

Please don't pass on your narcissism to any offspring.

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@MorosKostas It is impossible to hate @GMcGuireVA enough.

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@GMcGuireVA Democrats: *releases violent psychopath from prison*

Violent psychopath: *does violent psychopath things*

Democrats: "See? It's the gun lobby's fault"

Democrats: *goes back to planning more violence and mayhem*

Moral of the story: Democrats are the enemies of all sane people.

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@ConnellyAL Checks out.

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@shashj Star Wars-named, civilization-destroyer big mad.

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Foooooood

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Food. Yay.

And a dirty cooktop.

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@Ligonier Daily reminder that leftists exist for the sole purpose of usurping whatever you hold dear, hollowing it out, and wearing it as a skinsuit to accrue and exercise ever-more power over your life.

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@DavidShuster

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@TheNotoriousJTG @SealtheSeventh Same retard that's arguing with Grok over basic math is posting wall-of-text takes like this one. And it votes.

https://t.co/6QS0NvW8RM

[Philander Whittlesee @PhilWhittlesee]

Property taxes are moral and just. Indeed, they may be the most moral and just taxes, and they are one of the best means of taxing a populace for the good of the community.

To start with, property taxes have been around for 5,000 years now. They're one of the oldest taxes known. They've proven historically and traditionally to be worth the cost they impose upon landowners because the benefits are so high and because the benefits are required for a community to survive. Property taxes are also biblical. They're part of Leviticus and non-optional.

Communities require property in order to exist at all and in order to survive. Locking away that property in private ownership can still benefit the community and help the community to survive if the benefit to the community is greater under private ownership than in public or communal ownership. To that end, landowners have always had a duty and a responsibility to the community.

Throughout history, this has taken many forms, but it has always existed. Failure to meet your duties and responsibilities to the community as a landowner, and your land was taken from you by force and given to someone else who would meet them. This has been considered just for time immemorial. This is wrapped up in the concept of noblesse oblige but also in others throughout history. Landowners in our country at its founding had responsibilities to the body politic in terms of governance, but they had financial responsibilities as well. All of them paid property taxes.

Property taxes are also always inherently local. There is no national property tax, no federal property tax. They're assessed locally, they're collected locally, and they're spent locally. In probably 99% of the areas in this country, a group of coordinated voters of no more than 1,000 individuals could likely completely control every aspect of property taxes in their locality, and in perhaps 50% of the country as few as a hundred or two citizens could do so. If you live in an urban metro area, yeah, you're not going to be able to influence property tax policy much. That's part of the cost of living in an urban area. But for the vast majority, they absolutely can. There's no nonsense about taxation without representation. If you have a problem with the way your taxes are assessed, collected, or spent, you can do something about it.

Finally, the primary benefit of property taxes isn't that they fund local community spending on whatever the community decides to spend it on. The primary benefit of property taxes is keeping property available for the common individual to have the opportunity to purchase. Without property taxes, it would be vastly easier for wealthy individuals, organizations, and conglomerates to buy up land and squat on it. Land is a finite resource. More isn't going to be made, even as the population has continued to grow across the planet. One person or family owning land deprives anyone else of owning that land, and not all land is created equally. Some land is much more valuable than other land, either due to water availability, natural beauty, or other resources.

Locking up land in perpetual, essentially "free" ownership does an injustice to the rest of the public and certainly to future generations. Property taxes provide a "sink" that forces a certain level of utility to the land. This does benefit the community. It also means that retired people without income have to come up with a way to pay their property taxes. That sucks, but that is part and parcel of owning land. If you can't afford it in perpetuity, you can't afford it. You can sell it, you can rent it out, you can give it to your offspring and let them pay for it and put you up on it, or whatever.

But property taxes are inherently a good thing, even though they suck having to pay. It seems to me that most people that are against property taxes in all forms have misguided notions and tend toward libertarian ideals, and they lack experience in human nature or haven't pursued the logical ends fully enough. They may also be seeking license, confusing that with freedom, and attempting to have their free lunch. We gotta remember TANSTAAFL (There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch.

Leviticus 27:30-33: "Every tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land or of the fruit of the trees, is the Lord's; it is holy to the Lord. If a man wishes to redeem some of his tithe, he shall add a fifth to it. And every tithe of herds and flocks, every tenth animal of all that pass under the herdsman's staff, shall be holy to the Lord."

Leviticus 25:23-24: "The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine. For you are strangers and sojourners with me. And in all the country you possess, you shall allow a redemption of the land."

1 Chronicles 29:14-16: "But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able thus to offer willingly? For all things come from you, and of your own have we given you. For we are strangers before you and sojourners, as all our fathers were. Our days on the earth are like a shadow, and there is no abiding. O Lord our God, all this abundance that we have provided for building you a house for your holy name comes from your hand and is all your own."

Romans 13:6-7: "For because of this you also pay taxes, for the authorities are ministers of God, attending to this very thing. Pay to all what is owed to them: taxes to whom taxes are owed, revenue to whom revenue is owed, respect to whom respect is owed, honor to whom honor is owed."

Matthew 22:17-21: "Tell us, then, what you think. Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?" But Jesus, aware of their malice, said, "Why put me to the test, you hypocrites? Show me the coin for the tax." And they brought him a denarius. And Jesus said to them, "Whose likeness and inscription is this?" They said, "Caesar's." Then he said to them, "Therefore render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's."

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@SealtheSeventh @TheNotoriousJTG It's retards thinking everything on the right goes into one burger. They're literally that stupid. And they vote.

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@AreCadencing @SisyphusGoals @esjesjesj That pedophiles should get the death penalty no matter how much that upsets you.

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@Johnneh_80 If it makes you feel better, all communists are simply unconscious, unthinking copies of the previous communist. Once you've heard one, you've heard them all.

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@Mr_Andrew_Fox TLDR version: "[insert mindless platitudes here to appear sympathetic to victim], but he would've died anyway and diversity is our strength."

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@haalaphrodyke Guys, we don't have to suffer the constant hatred and gaslighting from leftists. We can just deport them.

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@Sparky4411White @FlancyPants @ViralNewsNYC Nah, I think you're a dishonest moron who likes to runs his mouth. That you'd expect me to believe you now is rather absurd.

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@dontforgetchaos You were today years old when you discovered X had a search function that made it simple for people to find your fetish for role playing at war.

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@D34thcoil @dontforgetchaos @henrynowaksol But, wait, there's more...
https://t.co/wDDwSs7Dce

[Jonny G 🇺🇦 @dontforgetchaos]

Finally got some Velcro to get my Ukraine/UK training patch on my kit bag along with the #ThinBlueLine

#SlavaUkraine 🇺🇦

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@dontforgetchaos @henrynowaksol Why are assuming the family wants to protect shit tyrants disguised as police?