The only correlation that matters.
Everything has got worse while we have got more government.
Perhaps we should try less government. A lot less government.
Young Australians should be enraged by the new super tax.
The statist talking heads will tell you "it's only on balances above $3M. The rich." Most Aussies will fall for it.
Run the numbers. 35yo today. $200k in super. Contributes $15k a year. Earns 8% returns (long run super average).
In 30 years their balance is $3.7 million. Caught by the tax.
But here's the trick. Australia's money supply has grown about 8% a year for the past two decades. RBA's own data. So that $3.7M buys what $369k buys today. Same groceries. Same house. Same petrol.
You didn't get rich. You ran on the spot.
And the $3M line? Frozen. In 30 years it only buys what $300k buys today. It's lost 90% of its real value. The govt doesn't have to move the line. Inflation does the work for them.
No different from the obscene overreach on anti-money laundering rules. The $10k cash transaction threshold was set in 1988 and never moved. $10k then is $26k in today's money. Adjusted for money supply growth, it's $170k. Same threshold. Almost 3x more transactions caught by CPI, 17x by money supply. That's why you get interrogated at the bank for withdrawing what only covers half a year of school fees.
Same trick with income tax. Wages rise with inflation. Brackets don't. Suddenly the average worker is in a "high earner" bracket they were never meant to be in. You don't earn more. The line moved.
This one policy tells you everything you need to know about the government and its intentions. It's all about grift and theft.
Meanwhile, the kids who get hit hardest are kept busy by an education system arguing about hate speech, social media, and the climate apocalypse promised in 2012. Nobody teaches them how money actually works. The govt likes it that way.
So they vote for more taxes. Bigger govt. More "fairness." Pouring petrol on the fire burning their house down.
The fix isn't communism. It's the opposite.
Smaller govt. Lower taxes. Index every threshold to the actual money supply, not the CPI lie. Decentralise the banks.
Despite everything, Australians are entrepreneurial and predominantly hardworking. Imagine what this country could become without the government's boot on its neck.
Tonight is the last time I will sleep in my own bed next to my loving wife. For the next 5 years I will be housed in a federal prison at taxpayer expense for a "crime" without a victim. Just one of many victims of lawfare perpetrated by a weaponized Biden DOJ where truth and justice were sidelined in favor of a political anti innovation agenda. Where evidence was hidden and suppressed because it didn't fit the story highly partisan line prosecutors needed to tell. Where Supreme Court precedence was ignored by activist judges.
Tomorrow I will surrender to FPC Morgantown. I will no longer be Keonne Rodriguez inside that institution, instead I will be a number, 11404-511. But outside of those walls my name will be kept alive. My loving wife, my family, my friends, all of you who have supported #pardonsamourai will make sure of that. I know walking into that institution that the story doesn't end there.
I maintain hope that President @realDonaldTrump is a fair man, a man of the people, who will see this prosecution for what it was: an anti innovation, anti american, attack on the rights and liberties of free people. I believe his team @AGPamBondi@EdMartinDOJ@DAGToddBlanche and others truly want to end the weaponization of the DOJ that the previous administration wielded so effectively.
The framers of our Constitution gave the Executive the power to pardon for exactly this reason, to balance out and restore justice when no one else would. President Trump has proven he takes that power seriously. I believe he will continue to wield that power for good and pardon me and Bill.
Keep up the noise. Thank you all for your support. See you on the other side.
These men created tools of freedom and financial independence. They wrote code and ran businesses. They are good people.
They were rewarded with federal prison sentences.
Keonne Rodriguez
William Hill
Ian Freeman
Roman Sterlingov
Roman Storm
Free the crypto prisoners.
An openly hostile judge, frothering at the mouth to lock away a software developer who never handled anyone else's money.
This is not justice! Sign & share the petition to #pardonsamourai & get this issue in front of @realDonaldTrump
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Listen to the full interview of @WatchmanPrivacy here: https://t.co/G7gwGrEANx
Rumors swirling that the EU commission will fine X hundreds of millions of dollars for not engaging in censorship. The EU should be supporting free speech not attacking American companies over garbage.
With leaders like Vice-President @JDVance, I’m confident that America will continue to be a force for good in the wider world.
Always good to catch up with you JD!
The biggest task of our generation is teaching young people why socialism is the wrong path.
It naturally appeals to the young because they’re empathetic but inexperienced. We need to teach them that meaning comes from responsibility, work and struggle, not state-managed fantasy.
Sadly this means facing the real problem, the adults selling it to them, the people who prey on youthful idealism to gain power and status.
It would mean a lot if you would sign this petition calling on @realDonaldTrump to pardon me and Bill
In 30 days we will report to prison. Unless the President steps in.
Developers shouldn't be liable for the actions of bad actors using their software
#freesamourai
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X welcomes an Australian Tribunal’s decision to set aside the eSafety Commissioner's overbroad notice demanding that X answer questions about alleged "terrorist and violent extremist material." The Commissioner defined this term so broadly that it could include "conspiracy theories," "misinformation," and supposed "hate speech" like JK Rowling referring to transgender individuals by their biological sex, threatening the speech of our users.
In a victory for X, the Tribunal ruled the Commissioner overstepped its statutory power. This win upholds X's stand for free expression under the law—and reminds regulators they can’t redefine speech to chill lawful debate.