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Make charitable donations a tax credit, instead of a deduction, and let volunteer work count.
As in nearly everything, Bastiat warned us:
November 19, 2025 at 5:20 PM
As in nearly everything, Bastiat warned us:
Coup by cop, America is fast becoming a police state; and its ardent supporters and facilitators are the police.
November 16, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Coup by cop, America is fast becoming a police state; and its ardent supporters and facilitators are the police.
"You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no sugar cane for miles, but you can still be working on a plantation."
~ Billie Holiday
~ Billie Holiday
November 14, 2025 at 4:36 PM
"You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no sugar cane for miles, but you can still be working on a plantation."
~ Billie Holiday
~ Billie Holiday
November 13, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Kleptocracy, all but the theft is theatre.
November 11, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Kleptocracy, all but the theft is theatre.
Greedflation was / is projection.
Inflation is a tax!
Actually the effect of the whole basket of things that could most broadly be called taxes.
It's the public sector stealing from both ends of the private sector, consumer and producer.
Inflation is a tax!
Actually the effect of the whole basket of things that could most broadly be called taxes.
It's the public sector stealing from both ends of the private sector, consumer and producer.
November 11, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Greedflation was / is projection.
Inflation is a tax!
Actually the effect of the whole basket of things that could most broadly be called taxes.
It's the public sector stealing from both ends of the private sector, consumer and producer.
Inflation is a tax!
Actually the effect of the whole basket of things that could most broadly be called taxes.
It's the public sector stealing from both ends of the private sector, consumer and producer.
Diderot was right, but he didn't go wide and deep enough.
Beyond the king and the priest, we'll need to do for the parking cop and the tax assessor, too.
Beyond the king and the priest, we'll need to do for the parking cop and the tax assessor, too.
November 10, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Diderot was right, but he didn't go wide and deep enough.
Beyond the king and the priest, we'll need to do for the parking cop and the tax assessor, too.
Beyond the king and the priest, we'll need to do for the parking cop and the tax assessor, too.
Agreed, but the organs use our civility to establish and normalize their oppression, before we understand that they've thrown out all of our old rules.
November 8, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Agreed, but the organs use our civility to establish and normalize their oppression, before we understand that they've thrown out all of our old rules.
Notice the diaper bulges.
Never was a Jarhead more greatful that those silly gloves are still part of his dress uniform.
Never was a Jarhead more greatful that those silly gloves are still part of his dress uniform.
November 7, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Notice the diaper bulges.
Never was a Jarhead more greatful that those silly gloves are still part of his dress uniform.
Never was a Jarhead more greatful that those silly gloves are still part of his dress uniform.
Serf'in USA
November 5, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Serf'in USA
"The luxury gap: Trump builds his palace as Americans face going hungry"
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
November 2, 2025 at 5:12 PM
"The luxury gap: Trump builds his palace as Americans face going hungry"
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Then as now:
October 31, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Then as now:
A final step in the regression of our government back behind castle walls with soldiers on the parapets.
October 30, 2025 at 6:51 PM
A final step in the regression of our government back behind castle walls with soldiers on the parapets.
History is not just rhyming - it is repeating, verbatim.
October 30, 2025 at 4:31 PM
History is not just rhyming - it is repeating, verbatim.
Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
October 30, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
No, it is all coerced from private citizens by and for government agents / actors.
October 29, 2025 at 8:13 PM
No, it is all coerced from private citizens by and for government agents / actors.
That is one specific government employee pension, the problem is all of the others local, state and supposedly independent but realy Federal; and even that one still leeches for its pension portion and its 401(k) matches.
October 29, 2025 at 5:18 PM
That is one specific government employee pension, the problem is all of the others local, state and supposedly independent but realy Federal; and even that one still leeches for its pension portion and its 401(k) matches.
"When the two coincide, the kleptocracy and the kakistocracy feed back on each other.
It is also a mistake to think that it is only in countries with weak institutions and immature political systems that thieves and goons can reach the most important positions."
- Moisés Naím
It is also a mistake to think that it is only in countries with weak institutions and immature political systems that thieves and goons can reach the most important positions."
- Moisés Naím
October 28, 2025 at 5:35 PM
"When the two coincide, the kleptocracy and the kakistocracy feed back on each other.
It is also a mistake to think that it is only in countries with weak institutions and immature political systems that thieves and goons can reach the most important positions."
- Moisés Naím
It is also a mistake to think that it is only in countries with weak institutions and immature political systems that thieves and goons can reach the most important positions."
- Moisés Naím
The artificial aristocracy is a mischievous ingredient in government, and provision should be made to prevent its ascendancy. I think that to give them power in order to prevent them from doing mischief, is arming them for it, and increasing instead of remedying the evil.
~ Thomas Jefferson
~ Thomas Jefferson
October 26, 2025 at 11:40 PM
The artificial aristocracy is a mischievous ingredient in government, and provision should be made to prevent its ascendancy. I think that to give them power in order to prevent them from doing mischief, is arming them for it, and increasing instead of remedying the evil.
~ Thomas Jefferson
~ Thomas Jefferson
We were warned from the start:
October 26, 2025 at 11:27 PM
We were warned from the start: