Danny Figueroa

Lover of Freedom | Entrepreneur | Born in Cuba, arrived 🇺🇸 on a 🚣‍♀️ | Marielito | Cuban by heritage. American at heart. 🇺🇸| | Anti - Communist

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@scrowder It's really not that hard, lift a few times a week and eat right. This is 58

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One of the most common defenses of communism is that it has never been tried the “right way.” That reminds me of the argument that someone who commits violence in the name of Islam wasn’t a “true” Muslim. In both cases, the failures are attributed to the people rather than to the ideology itself.

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One of the most common defenses of communism is that it has never been tried the “right way.” That reminds me of the argument that someone who commits violence in the name of Islam wasn’t a “true” Muslim. In both cases, the failures are attributed to the people rather than to the ideology itself.

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As a Cuban immigrant, this hits different. In the beginning we did exactly what the Turkish family is doing.... stacking plates like it was the last meal because back home food is scarce and things run out fast. We even cut school lunch lines because being in the back meant you didn’t eat.

The Western guy isn’t ‘impoverished’ or starving.... he’s just never had to worry that the food would disappear. Now I take a small plate, eat, and go back if I want more. That’s the freedom of not living in scarcity anymore.

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You can despise a person’s politics without surrendering your humanity. This is what political hatred looks like when it rots people from the inside: cruelty becomes entertainment, death becomes content, and basic decency is treated like weakness. It is disgusting.

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Good riddance.

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@AnaKasparian You can despise a person’s politics without surrendering your humanity. This is what political hatred looks like when it rots people from the inside: cruelty becomes entertainment, death becomes content, and basic decency is treated like weakness. It is disgusting.

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On this day in 1776, the future of America was still being written.

Most of us celebrate July 4th, but on July 3rd, the men in Philadelphia were still debating, editing, and shaping the words that would become the Declaration of Independence. They were not just writing a document. They were putting their lives, families, fortunes, and futures on the line for an idea that was almost impossible at the time: that ordinary people could govern themselves.

The United States has never been perfect, but what a great nation it has been. A nation built on promise, courage, sacrifice, opportunity, and the belief that tomorrow can be better than today.

That promise is still alive. The American Dream still lives on.

And for those of us who know what it means to leave everything behind in search of freedom, this country is not just a place on a map. It is hope. It is opportunity. It is home.

God bless America. 🇺🇸

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I don't start with the question, “How do we tax more?” I start with the question, “How do we spend better?”

Before asking Americans for trillions more in taxes even if it’s aimed at billionaires, the federal government should prove it can responsibly manage the trillions it already collects. Washington has a spending problem as much as, if not more than, a revenue problem.

Every year we hear about billions lost to fraud, waste, improper payments, and inefficient programs. Instead of creating new taxes, why not first:

Eliminate fraud and abuse in programs like Medicare and Medicaid.
Audit federal agencies and eliminate duplicative programs.
Balance the budget by controlling spending growth.
Hold government accountable for how taxpayer dollars are spent.

The federal government collected record tax revenue in recent years, yet the national debt continues to grow because spending keeps growing even faster. If someone earning $100,000 spends $150,000 every year, the answer isn’t automatically to demand a raise... it may be to control spending.

There’s also a practical concern. A yearly wealth tax isn’t like a property tax. Much of a billionaire’s wealth is tied up in privately owned businesses or company stock. Valuing those assets every year would be incredibly complicated, and many owners would have to sell shares or parts of their businesses just to pay the tax. That could reduce investment, slow business growth, and ultimately affect employees, retirees, and everyday investors whose retirement accounts own those same companies.

Finally, once the government creates a new tax, history suggests it rarely stays limited to the originally promised group. Income taxes began by affecting only a tiny percentage of wealthy Americans before gradually expanding to millions of middle-class taxpayers.

If Congress truly needs more revenue after aggressively reducing waste, fraud, and unnecessary spending, then have that conversation. But asking for another $4 trillion before fixing how the current money is spent puts the cart before the horse.

Government should first prove it is a good steward of the money it already has before demanding more.

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As someone who left Cuba on a boat, this isn’t a theoretical debate for me. My family risked everything to escape a socialist dictatorship in search of freedom and opportunity in America. In all my years, I’ve never seen people risking their lives on homemade rafts to flee the United States for Cuba. That doesn’t mean America is perfect, but it does say something about which system people are willing to risk everything to escape and which one they’re willing to risk everything to reach.

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@TheChiefNerd Dan Marino was a better pure passer. #1 all time.

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Let the makers keep everything they actually built and earned. The entrepreneurs, workers, inventors, hustlers... whoever created real shit that people wanted, should get to enjoy the full rewards. No guilt trips, no “you didn’t build that,” no politicians skimming off the top.

And the takers? Screw ’em. The cronies, bureaucrats, lobbyists, and professional moochers who live off subsidies, rigged rules, taxes, or handouts without creating jack, they need to lose what they stole. Give it back. Face reality.

It’s not about hating rich people or babying poor ones. It’s super simple:

If you make value, you keep it.

If you just take value, you don’t get to keep it.

That’s the whole game. Reward the builders, stop protecting the parasites. Everything else gets way better when that’s how it works.

Straight-up justice for producers.

[Danny Figueroa @wellnessFll]

Let the makers keep everything they actually built and earned. The entrepreneurs, workers, inventors, hustlers... whoever created real shit that people wanted, should get to enjoy the full rewards. No guilt trips, no “you didn’t build that,” no politicians skimming off the top.

And the takers? Screw ’em. The cronies, bureaucrats, lobbyists, and professional moochers who live off subsidies, rigged rules, taxes, or handouts without creating jack, they need to lose what they stole. Give it back. Face reality.

It’s not about hating rich people or babying poor ones. It’s super simple:

If you make value, you keep it.

If you just take value, you don’t get to keep it.
That’s the whole game. Reward the builders, stop protecting the parasites. Everything else gets way better when that’s how it works.
Straight-up justice for producers.

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Now that I’m officially a soccer expert after watching 2 1/2 matches, I feel qualified to say: Ronaldo is overrated. #WorldCup

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As an immigrant, people like Elon Musk don’t represent inequality to me they represent possibility. I didn’t come to America because everyone ends up equal. I came because here, you’re allowed to dream bigger than where you started.

If Americans are falling behind, is the answer fewer innovators and entrepreneurs or more policies that help people build wealth themselves?

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@FrankPallone You can't really be this stupid? Or can you

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@RoKhanna The world needs more Elon's and less Ro's.

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@Average_Jonas The US is not for the weak.

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@claireforny @ZohranKMamdani If you view the DSA as a movement largely made up of people who failed to create value in the marketplace and turned to government instead, much of their ideology suddenly becomes easier to explain.

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@caroljsroth Apparently luck is admirable, but hard work, risk, and value creation are offensive.