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Husband, dad, engineer. Economic hobbyist. Advocate for diverse humans. Pro science. 🏳️‍🌈
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"Californians pay over $80 BILLION more in federal taxes than we get back. Maybe it’s time to cut that off” - Newsome With the GOP’s cuts to the IRS, Californians can probably stop paying federal taxes without being audited.

Nazi Miller thinks all Americans are as stupid as he is. 🙄

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“The easiest way to save money in our budget, billions and billions of dollars, is to terminate Elon’s governmental subsidies and contracts” - #TACO TACO makes a good point. 🌮 apnews.com/article/trum...

Pres. #TACO and Sec. #Signalchat removing Tubman’s name from a naval ship to focus on ‘Warrior Ethos’ is idiotic. Harriet Tubman was the Queen of Warrior Ethos.

Let’s start by taxing billionaires and then cut spending on commercial space companies going to Mars.

Fight back now, because they're coming for you next. Even if you're white, straight, and Christian you're not safe! Unless you actually join them in their hate, they will declare that you're not white, straight, or Christian enough. No one is safe.

I think we’ve reached a boiling point when it comes to ICE. Today in Minneapolis, a militarized task force raided the beloved Lake Street taqueria, Las Cuatro Milpas—and the community was not having it. Agents from ICE, the DEA, FBI, ATF, IRS and HHS rolled up looking like they were ready for war.

#TACO's vision of 'No Imports, Only Exports' is damn stupid. First, that not how trade works. Second, it forever will disadvantage the USA as we won't have access to the comparative advantage provided by trade. The result will be decades of slower growth and lower quality of life.

#TACO has pushed the world to find new safe-haven investment other than USA treasuries. The result will be higher borrowing costs, lower growth, and higher taxes on the middle-class. This proposal outlines how the EU can fill the void. Say goodby to USA's advantage. www.piie.com/blogs/realti...

School vouchers is a transfer of tax money from the poor to the rich. Worse, it prevents kids from forming friendships with others who are different than they are and indoctrinates them into White Christian Nationalism. Protect public schools. No tax payer money in religious schools.

So civil rights leaders’s names are bad, but racial traitors’s names are good? 🤮 www.rawstory.com/dei-26722566...

Citizen Councils, selected through lotteries, is an attractive idea. (Let’s start with redistricting.) But decisions by councils of ‘citizens who show up’ is a horrible idea. The Christian Nationalists, among other hate groups, make a practice of ‘showing up’. We’ve heard enough from them.

San Diego neighborhood makes ICE agents retreat

Not a bribe. A protection racket. 🙄

So maybe I’ll put on military gear and wear a mask while I arrest some Taco supporters. 🤔 What would happen? They’d likely shoot me. So …

Holy crap! So since Pres. Taco doesn’t read we should have Fox News get the top secret intel?

“I’d love it if Hegseth went to Ranger School. He has a lot of opinions for someone who does not have his Ranger tab.” Thanks for your service! www.vox.com/today-explai...

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$2B of US taxpayer money given to the richest man in the world (and the country’s biggest tax dodger.) Tax the rich.

That’s a loss of $44B in US exports. #TACO increased the trade deficit. www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

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Proposal: As soon as Democracy is returned to the USA, let’s read the block chain for Trump’s crypto and prosecute everyone who used it to bribe the President. It would take a subpoena to get the wallet IDs, but the block chain will act as a permanent record of corruption. Easy to follow.

“Qatar is insisting .. that the aircraft’s transfer was initiated by Trump and that Qatar is not responsible for any future transfers of the plane’s ownership” So Trump: 1) Asked for the plane. 2) Requires it’s given to his library. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Stockholders demanding their CEO work 40 hours per week to earn his $40 BILLION paycheck seems like a low bar. 🙄

SCOTUS recently ruled that ‘tips’ given to an elected official are not ‘bribes.’ Could this be the real reason the GOP doesn’t want to tax tips? 🤔 I mean, think of the tax bill on a $400M airplane. 🙄 www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Canadian counter: How about the USA pay Canada $61B/year in order to place the infrastructure your ‘stupidity done’ would require to actually prevent missiles from hitting the USA.

"I was disappointed to see the massive spending bill which increases the budget deficit…" Musk said. Careful there Musk-boy…. Trump may cut the billions YOU take from US taxpayers. www.cbsnews.com/news/elon-mu...

Will the MAGA plumbers realize that if there are more plumbers, then their rates will go down? I mean, isn’t that obvious. 🙄