The guy who owns it says it’s a crappy carabiner, because the gate fell off. It looks more like time in Federal prison to me.
Communism
Lowering the Bar
Remember when the left wanted to tax the rich? In liberal states, they are redefining rich downward– anyone making $125,000 a year will be taxed a state rate of 9.9% in Oregon. New York is going after those who make more than $125,000. Washington is adding wealth taxes to an ever lower amount of income.
Now they are even talking about stealing 5% of someone’s total net worth- on top of all of the other taxes.
Here is what Peter Schiff had to say about that, and it’s one of my favorite quotes:
If you tax 70% of what I make above a certain amount, what I am going to do once I hit that amount is simply take the rest of the year off, and furlough all of my employees. See you in February.
Anti American left
Promises Made
Susan Rice, President Biden’s domestic policy chief, is promising revenge against the voters, business executives, and appointees who support President Donald Trump.
In an interview this week, Rice declared that supporters of Trump can expect the proverbial knocks on their doors: “A very prominent public figure, who has served at nearly the very highest levels, once told me … ‘Revenge is best served cold,’ and the older I get, the more I see the wisdom of that.” She added: When it comes to the elites, you know, the corporate interests, the law firms, the universities, the media … it’s not going to end well for them, for those that decided that they would act in their perceived very narrow self-interest, which I would underscore, is very short-term self-interest, and, you know, take a knee to Trump.
They hate you and want you dead. Don’t forget that, as they compare you to NAZIs, Fascists, and call you deplorable, once they regain power as they eventually will, they will begin hunting down, killing, and imprisoning those with whom they disagree.
It’s coming, and all the election of Trump has done is create a small, temporary speed bump in their plans.
Taxes
Property Taxes
The Florida house of representatives approved a ballot measure for this year’s election. The proposal would allow voters to approve an elimination of all non-school property taxes for homestead property. Sixty percent of those voting would need to approve it, then it would become part of the state Constitution. This proposal still needs to be approved by the state Senate in order to make it on the ballot, and it will have a much harder battle there, because the Democrats are absolutely opposed to it.
You will recall from my post of a couple of years ago:
In Florida, the tax assessor decides what the “fair market value” of your house is. The taxable value is then calculated by taking the market value and subtracting your homestead exemption. In order to have a homestead exemption, the owner of the property must live there as their primary residence. In other words, commercial and rental property doesn’t get a homestead exemption. The taxable value is then subject to being taxed. If you want more detail on how all of this works, click on this link to my previous post.
There are also numerous carve-outs for various groups.
- The homestead exemption is $25,000 on the first $50k of value, then another $25,000 for the next $50k of value, but that second $25k is only for non-school taxes.
- Additional exemption for residents 65 or older who make less than $38,686 per year
- Total exemption for totally and permanently disabled veterans, surviving spouses, or first responders.
- No property taxes for active-duty personnel deployed outside the U.S.
The result of all of this is many people already don’t pay taxes. In my town, there are 1,000 homes total. Two neighborhoods were recently built in the town- my own, and one other. Those two communities have 200 homes in them, so 20% of the town’s homes. Those homes pay more than 50% of the town’s taxes. Many homes in the town, including those of three of the five city commissioners, pay no taxes at all.
As a result, taxes are very tilted. Renters pay more than owners (because landlords don’t get tax exemptions). Those who have lived in their homes for a long time don’t pay any (or very little) in taxes.
The left is pissed about this. They are all singing the same song- claiming that this is a tax break for so-called “boomers” because GenZ doesn’t own houses. Isn’t it odd that the left constantly wants corporations to pay taxes, but they finally understand that companies don’t pay taxes- instead, they treat taxes like any other expense, and pass those expenses on to the consumer.
The left claims that property taxes are essential for things like police and fire, but ignore that overall, ad valorum taxes are only 18% of local tax revenues. Still they claim the following would be affected, but are lying:
- Law enforcement
- Social services
- Parks
- Environmental programs
- Fire districts
- Emergency medical services
- Schools
- Roads
Law enforcement, fire, EMS, and police are specifically mentioned in the law and will have required funding. School taxes are exempt. What this leaves is Social services (giveaways), Parks and environmental programs (luxury items), and roads (already funded by gasoline taxes and tolls). What the left is upset about is the funding for things like learing centers and other graft that permits them to hand out money to their wealthy well connected patrons.
The Senate session ends March 13. The odds that this gets passed before then are long. It probably won’t happen.
Crime
Suspicious
The man who was shot dead by Secret Service agents after entering Mar a Lago armed with a shotgun at 0130 this morning had been reported missing by has family less than 12 hours earlier, and local police had notified the FBI.
Twelve hours isn’t even long enough for a missing person report, much less FBI notification. What else was known that made this necessary? Did he leave a manifesto or something?
Now all of the news stories I found from when he went missing have been scrubbed. The left is already claiming it to be a false flag designed to boost Trump’s numbers.
Too many more Trump assassination attempts, and i will have to create a blog category specifically for this.
Anti American left
Terrorism
Terrorism defined: the premeditated, unlawful use of violence or threat of violence against civilians, governments, or property to induce fear, intimidate, or coerce, with the goal of advancing political, social, religious, or ideological objectives.
Now read about the sabotage of the Kennedy center and tell me what you think…
These fanatics won’t hesitate to come after you. They want you to submit or die.
Cops
Police Shooting
Today, I came across a 2023 incident in San Bernardino involving a shootout between a deputy and a criminal. The action begins at the 10:00 mark.
The lesson here is stay in the fight, even after being wounded.
Communism
51 Days
Mayor of New York Mamdani was elected with Socialist promises of free ice cream and a socialist utopia, with a solemn promise of making the rich pay for it. It only took 51 days for him to float the first tax increase on people who aren’t rich.
“This would effectively be a tax on working and middle class New Yorkers, who have a median income of $122,000,” he said
That amount of money is not much in New York. The people making $122k isn’t a lot of money. The proposed tax hike? A 9.5% increase in property taxes. This is why I keep saying New Yorkers need to stay there, and stop moving to Florida where they vote for more of the same policies that made them come here in the first place.
Cops
Shooting
A Walmart in Poinciana Florida, an unincorporated community that spans Osceola and Polk County, had been hiring off duty Sheriff’s deputies as security. One of them confronted a group of “teens” who had been shoplifting. That’s when one of the youths decided to pull a gun on the Deputy, thereby changing his crime from misdemeanor larceny into armed robbery, a forcible felony.
The Deputy conducted an impromptu ballistics test of his .45 ACP caliber Glock, which performed as expected. The crowd became a bit irate because the deputy shot a “kid,” so another off duty deputy, along with an off duty firefighter, both of whom happened to be in the store and were armed, assisted the original deputy in securing the crime scene until others could arrive. I can’t post the link to the tweet with the video, because it’s been restricted. Click on the tweet below and take a look.
Anti American left
Before and After
I will post this in support of my earlier post on this topic, and leave all of you to see and comment on the obvious implications: