Matt

racecar spelled backwards is racecar

[Matt @themattbeckmann]

@Breaking911 In 2022, the bottom 50% of taxpayers contributed only 3% of all taxes paid according to the Tax Foundation: they already pay effectively nothing. The problems are spending, welfare/entitlements, and those who use the state to distort the free market and crush competition.

[Matt @themattbeckmann]

@SalomeSibonex @JosephJakeKlein It’s a race to the bottom, a contest of debasement. Historically this does not augur well.

[Matt @themattbeckmann]

@SalomeSibonex First principles. Not enough folks have them.

[Matt @themattbeckmann]

“We have the money, the power, the medical understanding, the scientific know-how, the love and the community to produce a kind of human paradise. But we are led by the least among us – the least intelligent, the least noble, the least visionary.”

🔥🔥🔥🔥 from Terrence McKenna

[Mary J. Ruwart Ph.D. @MaryRuwart]

“The state is that great fiction by which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else.” - Frederic Bastiat

[Matt @themattbeckmann]

@mtgreenee Both parties are defined by their utter antipathy toward anything remotely resembling public service. We need a fresh start with the GOP and Dems both resigned to the trash heap of history

[Matt @themattbeckmann]

More books! Go read damnit!!

[Matt @themattbeckmann]

@elonmusk Better idea, use the influence you’ve purchased to address the root cause and tell Congress to abolish the TSA and the Patriot Act. Dork.

[Salomé Sibonex @SalomeSibonex]

Truth first. Not tribe, not ideology, not outcome. Truth first, and all else follows.

[Matt @themattbeckmann]

@sciencegirl Governments & the Davos crowd.

[Matt @themattbeckmann]

@GuntherEagleman You’re a disgusting, statist bootlicker

[Matt @themattbeckmann]

Went faster… #Motorsport

[Matt @themattbeckmann]

Absolutely cooking on the sim today.

[Matt @themattbeckmann]

Bluesy warm up riff 🤘 #guitar

[Dr. Hunter S. Thompson @GonzoVice]

I pay a lot of attention to freedom, and I think this country is throwing it away. This compulsion to trade our freedoms for security, which is an illusion of security, is horrifying to me.

[Matt @themattbeckmann]

This is why the state worked to monopolize education, why they denounce critical thinking, and why the state ruthlessly and relentlessly propagandizes the masses. Control.

[Truthstream Media @truthstreamnews]

“And a people that no longer can believe anything cannot make up its mind. It is deprived not only of its capacity to act but also of its capacity to think and to judge. And with such a people you can then do what you please.”

— Hannah Arendt

[Matt @themattbeckmann]

54% of the country reads at a 6th grade level, which implies an even greater percentage of the country is economically illiterate.

This explains quite a bit.

[Thomas Sowell Quotes @ThomasSowell]

“Politicians exploit economic illiteracy.”

— Walter E. Williams

[Matt @themattbeckmann]

Listening as people breathlessly call for even more government influence over the economy while also bemoaning the “failures” of capitalism is deeply ironic and troubling at the same time.

[Matt @themattbeckmann]

Once again, ending the welfare state would immediately eliminate most problems facing the USA.

As Ayn Rand said, “the only difference between a welfare state and a totalitarian state is a matter of time.”