Tim Bankes II
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Founder of Labor For Truth. Reformed Baptist Libertarian Amateur Economist. IFBAP Sold 13k+ 📚 Books 📕 Trade 📈Crude Oil 🛢️Futures at Top Step Prop Firm
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Hello, Labor For Truth has launched a new podcast called the
Tim and Adam and Truth Show (Aka TAT SHOW) Adam and I have spent hundreds of hours discussing ideas from a biblical worldview and decided it was time to share our conversations with the world.
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@stocktalkweekly
@elonmusk
Dude took no pay this whole time based on what it said. So pay him his due.
It’s almost like he is a venture capitalist that is also the CEO. 😅
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"At the Present Time, 60 Percent of our entire military budget is being spent on the defense of other nations." A Foreign Policy of Freedom by Ron Paul
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@elonmusk
If you can’t trust yourself than the word trust means nothing.
The whole world breaks down into true anarchy without trust.
I trust the company that built my car when I buy it that it will work.
I trust the companies that built my house before I buy it.
Trust is
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@LPNational
Now that is the most pro freedom thing anyone has ever done from within politics.
He pulled a Ron Swanson active move and just gutted the waste.
Feel like how comic book geeks felt when their super hero’s hit the big screen
Finally get to see the theory in action!
The
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@SallyMayweather
The actual act of punishment was done by the Romans but everything else up until that was Jews.
They wanted to kill him.
They schemed against him.
They brought the trial before the Roman’s
They refused to trade Jesus for Barabas
It was the Jews without Jews Jesus
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@Sheltieman3
Sealed with the Holy Spirit for the day of redemption!
And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. Ephesians 4:30 ESV
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@LPNational
Fun fact about Texas. When we joined the Union as the Republic of Texas we had a clause that allowed us to be able to leave if we want.
This is a better time than ever for us to leave. I feel like that’s the only way we can have an option.
California leaves or Texas does
Ppl
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The Greatest Economic and Financial Blunder in American History is the Great Depression. The question is what was the cause of this collapse of the whole Economy on a level that has never happened since? Check out this video to see who caused it.👇👇👇
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@TheBubbleBubble
@ryanmcmaken
@mises
@mises_media
Yeah but look at how high it went right before this. It is just a correction.
That was the delusion that they thought they could print that much money and it would not come back to bite them.
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@reason
As much as our libertarianism could argue people have the right to act out their beliefs no matter what the harm is.
1. The level of harm it does to one’s body
2. The irreversible nature of it.
3. The fact that in the past 80% of gender dysphoric kids became gay by adulthood.
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@reason
I think property taxes as the worst kind of tax there is.
It leads to stealing more money for the least amount of reason
It is like a capital gains tax on a stock or house you haven’t sold every single year.
If you bought something you pay the tax than no more.
Making
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@SallyMayweather
That’s an interesting 🤔 question is Law and Order and Freedom in conflict?
Well I like to play the anarchist game.
Here is how it goes.
In an anarchist society would we still need the security and order that police bring?
Yes
Okay so police aren’t in conflict with liberty
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The only companies they keeping in check is the ones they do not favor, Aka the ones who do not have the economic advantage of
“Special privilege” (specific treatment and advantage over others in an industry via the government)
This is why so many large companies got bailed
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Boom baby
@elonmusk
is rolling some heads! Lady who tried to sensor
#whatisawomen
film has left Twitter.
In this video
@JeremyDBoreing
said she is the one ☝️ who did it.
#maketwittergreatagain
!
#MTGA
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@benshapiro
Bro if you have ever met a Muslim, studied Islamic Theology, or heard a Muslim online.
These people are very conservative. These are the same ppl that when they have their own nation, Middle East, they have woman completely cover.
They don’t need any help from us Christian’s.
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@SallyMayweather
Talk about giving a Lollipop to a summer long toddler tantrum.
That just shows the hero’s in our current world are victims or
more clearly flopping victims who manufacture victimhood like an author manufactures drama in their books they write.
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The biggest threat to anything in the public sphere naturally wants to eliminate it. And the biggest threat to the government is an armed population.
That alone is what has kept us from becoming overran with the Democratic Party
1. Taxi’s don’t like Uber
Government solution:
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Yep it started with LBJ and the welfare state.
If the promises of the welfare state and socialism truly brought prosperity than this chart should be the opposite.
Instead of 2 parent households, which statistically are more wealthy, we have mother ran poor families.
As the size of government has exponentially increased, the number of children in a two parent household has decreased. This is not a coincidence.
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@SKMorefield
@HwsEleutheroi
@RandPaul
Spoken like a true libertarian. This is why I don't like the Republicans opening Pandora's box of regulating social media just to force them to allow conservatives to have a voice on their platform as if that is protecting free speech. No just claiming a social media platform is
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@elonmusk
Well, our smart appliances play a huge part in bringing us the prosperity we currently have.
So why would we retrograde in order to make our lives harder?
There are people out there that choose to not use smart appliances like dish washers.
This is an anti-capitalist stance.
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“In many societies of the past, people were forced to work, whether as serfs or slaves.
In a free society, people are paid to work. But pay is not just income to individuals.
It is also a set of incentives facing everyone working or potentially working,
and a set of
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@scrowder
They ruined California together now they leveling up their boss.
This time it’s All of America. 🤬
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“The battle for Freedom must be won over and over again.”
- Milton Friedman in The Road to Serfdom by F.A. Hayek Pg XV of Introduction
This is at the heart of what we do here as liberty lovers. Every generation must pick up the mantle of liberty 🗽 and pass it on to the coming
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@LPNational
As much as the purist in all of us want to be mad that none thorough bred libertarians are speaking at our convention, I also am happy for the implications of having non libertarians think that it’s valuable to speak at the libertarian conventions.
It elevates the movement and
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@LPNational
More relevant than ever with everything that has happened in past year with
1. Afghanistan
2. Ukraine
3. Israel/Palestine
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@LPNational
Yeah income tax started off as temporary war measure but once the world wars hit they never got rid of it.
They make trillions just extracting our income
If we still had that money they would stimulate the economy and stabilize it more than any printing could.
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“Monopoly is the enemy of efficiency, whether under capitalism or socialism.
The difference between the two systems is that monopoly is the norm under socialism.
Even in a mixed economy, with some economic activities being carried out by government and others being carried
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We already spent $20 trillion on welfare state but the poor are still poor.
For two reasons
1. Being poor is a lifestyle it is a financial mindset that says “I have money burning a hole in my pocket, I must spend it.
2. The deal of the welfare state is stay poor forever ♾️
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Time is everything when it comes to security.
The only reason I think that it was that guns were ever invented was because it empowered woman to be able to defend themselves indirectly without having to do up close sword fighting.
Other than that wish we still had swords.
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One thing that I do not understand is why some people think that taking away the rights of other people will bring about the ideal peace everyone imagines in their heads.
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@Rothmus
As a young man 👨 it only makes sense to have the cash.
If I was an older man than I would value more time over money.
So the question is really based on how old you are.
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“Adam Smith and Thomas Jefferson alike had seen concentrated government power as a great danger to the ordinary man; they saw the protection of the citizen against the tyranny of government as the perpetual need.
That was the aim of the Virginia Declaration of Rights (1776) and
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@LPNational
Why is no one talking about the fact that the total
Vote count was less than 1k ppl 😅 that don’t represent millions of libertarians
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@SallyMayweather
Minimum wage hikes were bad enough before automation but now with automation they are just cutting out human capital all together as the picture shows.
Before minimum wages hurt the poor and entry level worker mainly 16-24. It makes it harder to get in.
This accelerates
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One of the greatest of myths of American history was how the Great Depression came about. It was not brought about by greedy capitalist but instead by the government's failure to regulate the currency that the constitution gave them the sole responsibility over.
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There is no neutrality. Neutrality is giving in.
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@TheAmericanGrl
@JoeBiden
Based on your logic alcohol should be illegal too. Good luck with that one.
The only accidents high ppl getting in is getting rear ended cause they driving too slow 😂
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Yeah this is the soft bigotry of low expectations. Their skin tone doesn’t make them inherently stupid. Maybe lack of experience but that’s not a black thing that’s a poverty thing.
The biggest irony of the libtard Karen’s is they are the actual classical racism because of
Claiming that people can’t figure out how to get ID is racist and should be condemned in the strongest possible terms
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The even worse one to me is
“Paying taxes is literally supporting the murder of babes by their mothers.”
Aka abortion.
Abortion is already bad enough but taking my money to kill other ppl let alone a mother killing her own child is next level.
But yes that’s how taxes
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@Amer1can_Barbie
The only reason they earned it or deserve it is because the amount that the military is paid compared to the difficultly and the risk of life is not proportionate.
No other job is 24/7 commitment that might take you accross the world and away from family to possibly die.
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“We have not yet reached the point of no return.
We are still free as a people to choose whether we shall continue speeding down the “road to serfdom,” as Friedrich Hayek entitled his profound and influential book,
or whether we shall set tighter limits on government and rely
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How could ppl freely choosing to work together and voluntarily helping one another be considered immoral?
Nothing about capitalism is involuntary or coercive against someone’s will.
On the other hand
Socialism is very
1. involuntary
2. Coercive
3. Aggressive
Because it
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Insane the level of criminality and organized crime is taking place in California. California is on its way to being a third world country if something doesn’t change.
NEW: Bakery owner who had his store looted by ~100 thugs is speaking out against California's 'relaxed laws' after remarkably re-opening his shop in just a few days.
America needs more men like this guy.
Store owner Reuben Ramirez Jr.'s parents immigrated to America and opened
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There is a lady in Finland that is on her second charge over "hate speech", for the same crime, they don't have double jeopardy law, for quoting Roman's 1 in condemnation of homosexuals.
Supposedly it's not new, Germany and UK have arrest ppl for religious hate speech.
It's
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Yes out of all the taxes there is the property tax is the most non sensical.
All other taxes are one time payments for money made (income tax or capital gains on stocks) or spent (sales tax)
Property taxes are charged every year on something that you own! That’s crazy if you
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What y’all think?
Are Democrats more committed to destroying America than Republicans are to saving it?
Or are they less committed but better equipped and better infiltrating into the systems of power like the media and colleges.
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“These and other common sense reasons for income differences among individuals are often lost sight of in abstract discussions of the ambiguous term "income distribution."
Although people in the top income brackets and the bottom income brackets-
"the rich" and "the poor," as
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Saw this and thought it was interesting I think it's a fair way America would be divided up. Think that the country does operate in regions like this cultural and politically. We even talk about them in similar fashion to this division
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This is why property taxes and income taxes is such an atrocity.
No other property are we paying taxes on year after year. Other products you pay sales tax at the point of sale.
Income taxes used to be temporary war measure but became permanent in early 1900s.
Perpetual
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Fun fact about Texas. When we joined the Union as the Republic of Texas we had a clause that allowed us to be able to leave if we want.
This is a better time than ever for us to leave. I feel like that’s the only way we can have an option.
California leaves or Texas does
Ppl
Could Texas be the start of a mass breakup of the United States of America?
Could we see a Republic of Texas 2.0? We may have our answer very soon.
How do you feel about secession? Do you support your State declaring independence?
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It is a great economic example of “the law of unintended consequences”
Big government economics thinks that in order to solve a problem we just need to throw more government money at it
But
That does not fix anything that only leads to the currency being debased
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Big news about America 🇺🇸
Death rates exceed birth rates now.
To me in this age of technology we don't need a growing population. America has grown exponentially in the past 100 years.
The only reason it's an issue is because of the welfare retirement governmental system
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This guy is straight out of a libertarian fiction novel 🤣 He is getting his hands dirty and actually draining the swamp after he has stabbed the Gators 🐊 who occupy it.
This guy is doing what no other libertarian has had the balls to do before. He is showing what is possible.
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Corruption throughout history was the norm because big government loves corruption.
I thrives on being corrupted by the money.
America used to be different. The politicians saw their job as an opportunity to serve and move on with their life.
Which is why short term
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Do not Underestimate the government's competency in their incompetency. 🤣
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Ironically even though we are pushing 150 billion total
Spending on that proxy war. They are still coming back and saying
That if we don’t give more money than Ukraine is screwed.
Another example of a sunk cost where we just keep pumping money into it and it requires more.
We oppose terrorism against innocents, regardless of whether such acts are committed by governments or by political or revolutionary groups.
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@Geiger_Capital
When did NDA’s become illegal? 😅
Those things are used by all kinds of people and businesses.
Next time you get an NDA just know that it’s actually illegal so don’t worry about it 😂
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Adam and Tim discuss how political parties can be tribal and triggering for some ppl instead of just talking ideas without the political parties.
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Milton Friedman, Hero of the Libertarian Movement
"The Goal of the Framers of the Constitution of the United States,
drafted by Jefferson's contemporaries, was a national government strong enough to defend the country and
promote the general welfare. but at the same
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Wow
@MattWalshBlog
does it again! He finds the base board of truth in his enemies argument!
This is the heart of the
#WhatIsAWoman
documentary.
He is exposing that they have no redefined what a woman is but instead they have EMPTIED the word of all meaning!
That is huge
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The fact that the New York City budget is out of the money has less to do with immigrants coming to their state and more to do with the
@TheDemocrats
love for the welfare state as their fix all choice for “helping” the poor while really enslaving them to government dependence and
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Interesting 🤔 that when parents are asked what they want for their kids it not a particular job
But instead
They want them to have agency or a self drive and competence over their life Aka in libertarian terms to be
“Self governing”
But the school 🏫 system of compliance
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Yeah income tax started off as temporary war measure but once the world wars hit they never got rid of it.
They make trillions just extracting our income
If we still had that money they would stimulate the economy and stabilize it more than any printing could.
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Thought this was fascinating 🧐 that we spend half our time focused on bone present things, mainly past and present, which leads to less happiness.
Which isn’t necessarily a bad thing but fascinating self awareness factoid.
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Great news.
My brother in law has come to Christ due to conversations we had about my faith over Christmas when they stayed with us.
I sent him off to learn a ton about theology and it stirred him to come to Christ and now he is going to church and even sharing his faith when
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“Privatization was embraced as a principle by such conservative governments
as those of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in Britain and
President Ronald Reagan in the United States.
But the most decisive evidence for the efficiency of the marketplace was that even SOCIALIST
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The Free Market is > Government
Entrepreneurs better serve their customers than the government ever can.
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@SallyMayweather
In order for it to make it your your fridge healthy they gotta do something. Too much delay between farm and your fridge to not do something.
Farmers markets or your own garden is the only way to go if you care enough.
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“In general, the productivity of any input in the production process depends on the quantity and quality of other inputs, as well as its own.
Thus workers in South Africa have higher productivity than workers in Brazil, Poland, Malaysia, or China because, as The Economist
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To be Saved by the blood 🩸 of Jesus is the best thing of all! I would rather be saved than be the best athlete, smartest man, or richest man! Give me Jesus
It’s the most powerful love by a infinite amount!
Knowing that God could have justly chose to leave me as a vessel of
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Yep ain’t anything new. 80 years ago the Japanese were afraid to actually invade America during WWII.
Instead they did the wussy thing and metaphorically stepped on our toe by bombing Pearl Harbor.
Japanese Admiral Yamamoto is claimed by some to have said, “You cannot invade
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I’m
Sitting here thinking 🤔
is this them trying to make fun of something
@CNN
actually said and pointing it out as ironic satire
Or
They just made it up like they normally do as satirical comedy.
Either way the fact that it’s that believable is a huge commentary on CNN 😅
Global Warming Mysteriously Spikes Every Year Between June And August, Experts Say
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@prageru
In all seriousness in every statistical way women and men are happier in marriage. There is a reason why most of history men have been obsessed with that particular institution and relationship obligation.
It is the greatest
1. Stabilizer
2. Motivation Giver
3. Fulfilling
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As Christians we should be driven by the great commission Jesus Christ left his disciples with right before the ascended on high.
The last part of that is to "go to the ends of the Earth."
If we allow for increased government overreach, we might be hindered from this mission...
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It is pretty phenomenal that even without the guidance and central planning of the government most jobs find ppl to
Do them.
This is an expression of two economic terms:
1. Freedom of Association (Ppl are free to
Associate or not with whomever)
2. Spontaneous Order (things
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There is a reason why they say if your not a conservative by 29 you have no brain.
It’s easy to see how extortionate the taxes have become.
Most ppl that have to live off their own money they worked for soon realize that being taxed for a large portion of your income hurts.
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“The depression was produced by a failure of government in one area—money—where it had exercised authority ever since the beginning of the Republic.
However, government’s responsibility for the depression was not recognized—either then or now.
Instead, the depression was
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The impact of nation building and foreign intervention is it leaves your own land vulnerable.
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Jesus is the answer for our religious needs
And
Liberty is the answer for our political needs
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It might seem small to change one word but it is actually huge.
Pay means voluntary
Take means involuntary
Up until the 1900s,outside of wartime, Americans were only taxed 3-5%.
In the arena of taxes we are way more of a progressive socialist tax system.
As you make more
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Libertarians don't believe that the government should be the one to force a particular view on individuals instead, individual citizens share with one another from a citizen to citizen level.
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“The combination of economic and political freedom produced a golden age in both Great Britain and the United States in the nineteenth century.
The United States prospered even more than Britain. It started with a clean slate: fewer vestiges of class and status; fewer
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whew! if we would have only known this before COVID Lockdowns.
Well looks like we learned this one the hard way. 😅
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@SallyMayweather
Dam they really avoided the subject of yes politics if she just found this out after 5 years. OK😅
This is why talking beliefs early in a relationship is important.
I have had my fair share of woman leave me because they found out something I believed they didn’t like.
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Social security has always been a Ponzi pyramid scheme invented by socialist but there were able to get away with it for a while because we had the big baby boom after WWII
but the boomers did not have as many kids as their parents did and it had gotten worse.
In the 1970s
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Facts! You’re gonna be treated poorly by somebody! Makes sense. You attractive men treat you like queen but girls are jealous.
If you ugly than girls are nice to you because they look down on you and dudes are mean to you cause they look down on you for not being attractive,
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Minimum wage hikes were bad enough before automation but now with automation they are just cutting out human capital all together as the picture shows.
Before minimum wages hurt the poor and entry level worker mainly 16-24. It makes it harder to get in.
This accelerates
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I think this is the main problem Americans have is too much belief in government.
The original
Founders had a very healthy fear of government and created a system that tried to limit it.
How the lockdowns went down shows you how much we trust the government but hindsight is
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What is the cost of printing money indefinitely?
The cost is that the buying power of a currency will be incrementally watered down..
Even though the Dollar has been the standard for all currencies in the world for decades, it has lost 99% of its buying power due to inflation.
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@LPNational
Now that’s the kind of president you want! Reminds me of Ronald Reagan. That dude hated communism he always railed against it.
Presidents should be known for what they stand against. It should be real clear.
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@SallyMayweather
I think this is the main problem Americans have is too much belief in government.
The original
Founders had a very healthy fear of government and created a system that tried to limit it.
How the lockdowns went down shows you how much we trust the government but hindsight is
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If you could get rid of income tax or property tax which one would you do?
As much as I think property tax is worse morally than income tax. Income tax is generally going to be more of your income.
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The Truth About Big Government Democratic Socialistic Economics is that it pretends to be a science of how to manage the economy in an objective and factual way.
but really it is just politics masquerading as a Science. The actual science of Economics disproved Socialism.
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Heard a former conservative teacher claim that freeing up school vouchers in Texas for parents to choose how they spend their own money on education will eventually lead America to be a third world country.
To me that’s fear mongering
Conservatives should be for privatize
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