@ChrisWillx@Rothmus And it doesn’t even matter. Because spending is largely covered by monetary supply inflation, not direct taxation.
The entire thing is a dog and pony show.
@yashhq_22 These are the same. I think people answering that paying is harder are young people with peers who have a lot of time.
When you’re older, your network has high time preference and money to spare. It’s much harder to capture attention than wallets.
@follard This is also undoubtedly because the average person has absolute shit taste.
I’ve watched my older parents successfully flip their own homes multiple times at obscene profit because they have great taste.
Now I’m selling my home and looking for a place to buy.. so much SHIT.
Let’s end this debate right now:
If you are 20 years old every basic good has gotten 100x more expensive in your short lifetime.
Anyone telling you otherwise is lying or retarded. Facts don’t care about your feelings…
Steak per pound
2006 - $5.05
2026 -$12.88
Increase: 155%
Ground Beef per pound
2006 - $2.20
2026 -$6.87
Increase: +210%
Chicken per pound
2006 - $1.05
2026 - $2.05
Increase: +95%
Fish per pound
2006 - $6.00
2026 - $12.00
Increase: +100%
Cup of coffee
2006 - $1.75
2026 - $3.75
Increase: +114%
Eggs per dozen
2006 -$1.31
2026 - $2.14
Increase: +63%
Box of cereal
2006 - $3.50
2026 - $5.50
Increase: +57%
Bottle of Coke
2006 - $1.15
2026 - $2.25
Increase: +96%
Fast Food meal cost
2006- $2–$3
2026 - $12–$14
Increase +500%
Sit Down Restaurant Meal
2006- $9–$13
2026 -$23-$35
Increase: +169%
Gas per gallon
2006 - $2.59
2026 - $4.08
Increase: +57%
Average used car
2006 - $10,500
2026 - $26,000
Increase: +148%
Movie ticket
2006 - $6.55
2026 - $13.50
Increase: +106%
Rent
2006 - $780
2026 - $1,800
Increase: +131%
Average home price
2006 - $222,000
2026 - $440,000
Increase: +98%
Yes, life has gotten more expensive. Inflation is a function of government spending. Forever wars, the obscene welfare state, mass migration and fraud is destroying affordability and upward mobility for young Americans. It’s robbing us blind. Attack these issues ruthlessly or lose the American Dream forever.
Wanna know how I know there's outrage fatigue? Trump made it very clear that he will not be challenging Fauci's pardon because he intends to pardon his whole family.
The biggest crime in world history and he won't pursue it because he and his kids needed to rug pull on a shitcoin.
Or because he needed 100K/mo to sell access to his truth social posts so that whales could front run his weekly Iran TACO announcements.
He has gone from bad to indefensible and there are three camps remaining:
Deep denialists
Paid propagandists
The rest of us.
The problem is that the rest of us are just so overwhelmed by the avalanche of corruption you can't even get adequately mad.
It's like adrenal overload.
I'm tired, boss.
@Hitchslap1 Talking about his wife’s vagina constantly on X, posting about when he has sex, comparing his boners to his son’s boners, swapping blood with his son, not eating meat and basic foods to the point that his body sabotages itself.
idk.. a lot to unpack.
Everyone who enabled Fauci and his lies is as guilty as him because the evidence was there all along.
End the circus and start prosecuting people like Peter Marks and Deborah Birx who don’t have pardons.