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Unapologetic radical for freedom & capitalism.

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@RockChartrand
Rock ChartrandđŸ€‘
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Socialist grifters survive on blurring definitions. They pretend capitalism is whatever a country with the label does, so they never have to define the system itself. That way, every betrayal of property rights caused by political power gets blamed on “capitalism,” and every
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@RockChartrand
Rock ChartrandđŸ€‘
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What you’re doing is starting with an emotionally-loaded conclusion and then reverse-engineering a justification for it. That isn’t an investigation; it’s confirmation-hunting. The same method climate activists use when they start with “the world is ending” and selectively gather
@MattWalshBlog
Matt Walsh
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The Quality Of Literally Everything Is Declining. I’m Investigating To Find Out Why | Ep. 1702 https://t.co/1APEu53bYH
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@RockChartrand
Rock ChartrandđŸ€‘
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If greedy CEOs really had all the leverage and could pay everyone minimum wage, then almost everyone would earn minimum wage. But fewer than 2% do. That one fact destroys the narrative. Why? Because wages aren’t donations, they’re exchanges. A business must pay less than or
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@VISITFLORIDA
VISIT FLORIDA
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Stir up the group chat with a "let’s go to Florida this weekend 😎”
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@RockChartrand
Rock ChartrandđŸ€‘
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Unpopular opinion? You don’t have to agree with the accuracy of their interpretation to notice this: many justify sacrificing the individual to the collective using religious morality. The language changed, “common good,” “public interest” but the ethic remained: virtue means
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@RockChartrand
Rock ChartrandđŸ€‘
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An overdraft fee isn’t theft, it’s the cost of spending money you don’t have. The bank is fronting funds that belong to someone else, and charging a fee for taking that risk. You’re not being “robbed.” You’re being loaned money on demand, with instant access, and the price for
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@RockChartrand
Rock ChartrandđŸ€‘
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Communists and socialists only ever fall into two categories: those who don’t understand what their ideas produce, and those who do. The first group is ignorant, blind to history, blind to incentives, blind to the fact that every system built on coerced sacrifice ends in
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@RockChartrand
Rock ChartrandđŸ€‘
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Almost exclusively the only thing the government should be doing is to undo what they've already done. Every new solution to the problems caused by central planning only ever make the problems worse and more costly. It's just doubling down on the stupid and expecting new results.
@mcuban
Mark Cuban
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Should the federal government create a catastrophic insurance plan available to anyone not on Medicare or Medicaid (we will pick the threshold amount in the next post )
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@RockChartrand
Rock ChartrandđŸ€‘
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Translation: No one should have to earn, except those who have to earn so someone else doesn't have to. đŸ€Ą
@broadwaybabyto
Kelly
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No one deserves to starve. No one deserves to starve. No one deserves to starve. Most SNAP recipients work. They need SNAP because corporations refuse to pay a living wage. The rest are disabled, elderly or unpaid caregivers. People should be fed. Period.
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@atriumlab
Atrium Lab | atrium.io
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@RockChartrand
Rock ChartrandđŸ€‘
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There has not been much more un-American than taxing a person for taking out a loan, something that isn’t income, isn’t consumption, isn’t gain, and must be repaid while simultaneously “canceling” loans for politically favored groups. It's state-sanctioned plunder dressed up as
@RepDanGoldman
Rep. Dan Goldman
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Wealth inequality has exploded while billionaires borrow against their assets and pay almost nothing in taxes. That ends now. It’s time for billionaires to pay their fair share. My ROBINHOOD Act taxes those loans to create revenue to pay for universal childcare, Pre-K and more.
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@RockChartrand
Rock ChartrandđŸ€‘
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They cry that “the 1% got it all,” while the 1% pay about half of all federal income taxes, and well over half of spending doesn’t go to them. So when someone pays massively more than they receive, calling a tax cut a “handout” only makes sense if you view that person as your
@mcsquared34
MC Squared
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And the people got none of it. It all went to the 1% in the form of tax breaks, subsidies and corporate welfare payments
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@RockChartrand
Rock ChartrandđŸ€‘
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Short-term greed raises prices because it assumes customers are stuck. Long-term greed lowers prices and increases value because it assumes customers are free. The irrational mindset asks, “How much can I squeeze today?” The rational one asks, “How much value can I deliver so
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@RockChartrand
Rock ChartrandđŸ€‘
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They're calling it exploitation because they think every business is guaranteed “enormous profit,” when in reality most new businesses fail, and many established ones barely break even. Yet employees still get paid, on time, every time, whether the business succeeds or collapses.
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@RFupdates
Reasonable Faith
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Why Does it Matter that Adam and Eve Actually Existed?
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@RockChartrand
Rock ChartrandđŸ€‘
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They're whining that airlines paid “only” 7.5 percent, ignoring that every dollar those companies make has already been taxed when employees, suppliers, airports, fuel, and tickets were taxed. Corporate taxes are double-dipping. And businesses don’t absorb taxes, they pass them
@4TaxFairness
Americans For Tax Fairness
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The collective 7.5% tax rate paid over 7 years by American, Delta, JetBlue, Southwest and United is about half the 14.5% paid by the average U.S. household in 2022. Counting only Delta, Southwest and United—the collective tax rate declines to 4%. The tax code is rigged.
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@RockChartrand
Rock ChartrandđŸ€‘
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Big corporations seeking a monopoly by crushing small businesses who can't compete would agree with you.
@alchemy_sc35895
So what?
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@RockChartrand If you can't pay your employees a living wage, you should not be in business.
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@RockChartrand
Rock ChartrandđŸ€‘
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Communism is the political ideology built on forcing winners to subsidize losers. It punishes achievement by declaring that those who produce are morally obligated to carry those who refuse to. It calls failure a claim on someone else’s effort and treats success as guilt that
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@RockChartrand
Rock ChartrandđŸ€‘
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Socialists love to say “if wages kept up with inflation, minimum wage would be $25/hr today.” Great. So who caused the inflation? The same politicians they vote for. The same spending they demand. The same “free” handouts they celebrate. The same regulations that suffocate
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@GOLDCOUNCIL
World Gold Council
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@RockChartrand
Rock ChartrandđŸ€‘
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The socialist definition of oppression is inverted from reality. To them, being required to earn is oppression, and forcing others to earn for them is “justice.” Their solution to this imaginary oppression is legalized entitlement: your effort becomes their right, your
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@RockChartrand
Rock ChartrandđŸ€‘
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So selling someone food, shelter, medicine, or other basics voluntarily is “taking advantage of them.” But forcing third parties under threat of fines, confiscation, or imprisonment to subsidize those same needs isn’t exploitation? Charging a price for something you produced is
@ATLCWorker
Russell
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Making a profit from selling people’s basic needs to them is taking advantage of them.
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@RockChartrand
Rock ChartrandđŸ€‘
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Unrealized gains aren’t income. They’re imaginary values that exist only on paper, not in anyone’s wallet. You can’t tax something that doesn’t exist yet, because no one has earned it, received it, or used it. Taxing unrealized gains means taxing people for wealth they might
@4TaxFairness
Americans For Tax Fairness
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I still can't believe we actually let rich people start racking up billions of dollars in unrealized capital gains—the one type of income that doesn't get regularly taxed—and act like we have no idea why our economy is so rigged against us.
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@RockChartrand
Rock ChartrandđŸ€‘
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Nobody “lost” $79 trillion. Reich just assumes workers were entitled to money they never earned. The top earners didn’t get richer because the bottom lost anything. They got richer by building companies, taking risks, and creating value that didn’t exist before. There isn’t a
@RBReich
Robert Reich
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The bottom 90% lost a collective $79 trillion in wages over the past 50 years. Why? Because the top 1% ate up an increasingly larger share of the national income — so that $79 trillion flowed to them instead of the working class. The greatest trick of all is trickle-down
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@RockChartrand
Rock ChartrandđŸ€‘
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Saying no job should pay less than $18/hr is like saying no house should cost less than $500k. It doesn’t raise value, it bans anything below it. If someone produces $12/hr of value and the law forces $18/hr, that job isn’t upgraded, it’s eliminated. Minimum wage advocates
@kinginvestings
King Investing 👑
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Controversial take No job in 2025 should be paying less than $18/hr. Period.
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