SarcasmMachine @actioncjack

JUST NOW at Dartmouth College, @TulsiGabbard explains why socialist Democrats are selling a fairytale. 🔥

I’m certain my wife could answer with a solid no to this question should she be asked. I’m dumbfounded

Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt

a day ago

LOL wut?

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Cue the outrage

Milton Friedman Daily @MiltonFriedmanW

a week ago

Milton Friedman: “In the long run, government will spend whatever the tax system will raise, plus as much more as it can get away with. That’s what history tells us.” “So my view has always been: cut taxes on any occasion, for any reason, in any way that’s politically feasible,

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@CamCleeland I’m 50 years old. Native of Tacoma. I’ve watched a LOT of football. The most dominant team I have ever seen. It’s not even close. Great times.

@jerrysends69 And the universities

My post about France went viral. Thousands of likes. Many Americans told me: "Democrats aren't socialists. America will never be France." I want to answer that seriously, step by step. Start with a simple observation. Look at what has gotten cheaper in America over the last 25 years: TVs, phones, software, clothes, toys. Now look at what has exploded: college tuition, healthcare, childcare, housing. What separates the two lists? The first lives in competitive markets. The second is exactly where government is most involved: subsidies, mandates, licensing, zoning, regulation. College. Washington lends students almost unlimited money. Universities know the money will always come, so they raise tuition and hire more administrators. The student pays the bill for twenty years. More government money, higher prices. Housing. Why can't a nurse buy a home in the city where she works? Not because of capitalism. Because of zoning laws, permits, environmental reviews, years of procedure to build a single building. The most expensive places to live in America are the places where it's hardest to build. When building is nearly illegal, prices explode. Healthcare. The patient almost never sees the price. A third party pays, regulations limit who can compete, and costs climb year after year with no one able to say no. So here is the trap. The problems you suffer from are not the failure of free markets. They are the places where the market has already been replaced by the state. And the solution you're being offered is more of the same. That's the Trojan horse. It always works the same way. A real problem. A generous-sounding promise. A program that makes things worse. Then the failure of that program becomes the argument for the next one. People who lived under communism in Poland learned to recognize the lie and the mask the lie wears. The lie never presents itself as a lie. It presents itself as compassion. In France we are at the end of that road. Debt we can never repay. Young people who can't afford a home. Our best people leaving. And every few years our cities burn. Nobody voted for this. They voted for one more generous promise, fifty years in a row. If you're a Republican, share this with the Democrat in your life. Not to win an argument. To start a conversation. If you're a Democrat, I'm not asking you to switch teams. I'm asking you to look at the pattern. Wherever the state took over, life became unaffordable. Don't fix the failures of government with more government. Stay American. Ask for less state, not more.

Brivael Le Pogam @brivael

a week ago

I’m French. I want to talk to Americans who are about to vote Democrat. Not to insult you. To warn you. I come from your future. In France we did everything your progressive politicians promise. Free healthcare, free college, generous welfare, strong unions, heavy regulation,

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This one hits hard. Bill Philip, the founder of Columbia was one of the most respected bankers in PNW history. Gave my dad a chance with a loan in 1980 at the dawn of trucking deregulation that allowed him to start Gordon Trucking along side my grandfather's Gordon Fast Freight. Was our family's banker with Puget Sound like many in the South Sound. Lost him just short of his 100th birthday earlier this year, and now seeing the leaders of his magificient creation leaving as Washington crumbles. How much more evidence do you idiots need?

Puget Sound Business Journal @PSBJ

a week ago

Columbia Bank is relocating its executive team, signaling a major shift for corporate operations in the Pacific Northwest. bizjournals.com/seattle/news/2…

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@sliccardo What does any of that have to do with potential criminal conduct? Let’s not forget Biden’s DOJ began the investigation. Members of Congress are not immune.

Let’s address some purposeful misdirection. I’ll do it by asking Robert a few simple questions: Why should I believe voters will decide if threshold will be lowered when they passed this tax WITHOUT a public vote and have demonized Letsgowa when all we’ve done is spent millions to ALLOW the public to vote on it? Republicans tried multiple times to get language in the bill preventing the lowering of the threshold. All attempts were rebuffed. Why? If there are no plans to lower the threshold then why include pension payments in the income calculation? There are probably less than 5 people in the entire country who are currently collecting a pension while recording annual income in excess of $1 million. You expect me to believe your side would knowingly take on these criticisms if you DIDNT intend to lower the threshold? Should the tax stand, government estimates the tax will raise $3.5 billion (we estimate it will be a net negative due to loss in B&O and excises taxes as businesses leave). Even if government estimates are accurate the money generated is 3% of current budget. Why on earth would you drive businesses like Starbucks out of this state for MAYBE 3% increase in revenue? When considering the explosion in the state budget over the past few years, that 3% will be 2% in no time. Only way to finance their spending plans is to levy this tax on everyone. That’s not an opinion. That’s math.

Robert Cruickshank @cruickshank

2 weeks ago

Let’s bust some millionaires tax myths this morning. Upholding the millionaires tax does NOT mean we’ll all pay an income tax in WA. That is a myth peddled by people who don’t want to tax the rich. There are three major obstacles to overcome before the threshold is lowered.

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@TomBradyEgo Didn’t night train Lane play for the Lions?

@cruickshank The disingenuous nature of your comment doesn’t get any worse. You know EXACTLY what is going to happen. That threshold will be lowered the moment the legislature runs into a budget issue and it probably won’t even take that!

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@Softykjr *Breaking* Elijah Brown has entered the transfer portal.

@jerrysends69 That sounds good in theory but you know and I know and I know that you know Democrats will never lower or eliminate the sales tax in exchange for an income tax.

MIC DROP: During a debate on WA Democrats' "Millionaire Tax' Lets Go Washington Founder Brian Heywood asks: "Who believes that this tax will stay at the million-dollar threshold? Raise your hand" (No hands go up)

When Sen Dhingra sees 450 people at Bellevue lunch discussion reject her assertion UNANIMOUSLY that the income tax will stay at $1 million...

Your pensions absolutely are susceptible to being taxed if you're a public employee. There's no other reason to remove protections than to allow them to be taxed. They're trying to lie directly to your face.

Brian Heywood - That Damn Mormon @bkheywood

2 weeks ago

Ruh Roh, it seems like the teachers, firefighters, first responders, public employees found the hidden legislative turd hidden in the income tax that explicitly exposes all of their pension retirement accounts to the income tax. Oh it only applies to millionaires she says, well,

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Kareem Abdul Jabbar was the best player in the NBA when Magic Johnson joined the Lakers. The league was also in deep financial trouble. Fortunately, you had a commissioner David Stern, who understood that Magic Johnson and Larry Bird were the future of the league. That’s what this WNBA is failing to understand.

@priyadesai “Prepping for an event” not the semifinals of the WNBA playoffs though.

@AtelierMissor_ Same thing was said of this masterpiece.