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This chart explains why so many people are packing up and leaving. New York collects about $12,506 per person in state and local taxes, one of the highest levels in America. Only Washington DC collects more. And if you live in New York City, the bill gets even bigger because city taxes are piled on …
Whole thing reeks of paper tiger energy and nobody’s buying it anymore. 🇺🇸 Trump at 2:00 PM — “I don’t want them making $500 million a day from the Strait of Hormuz. We’ll wipe out their entire civilization if we have to.” 🇮🇷 Iran at 3:00 PM — “We’ve established an authority to manage the …
🚨 BREAKING US CUSTOMS WILL STOP COLLECTING TRUMP TARIFFS STARTING FEBRUARY 24. THE CHAOS STARTS NOW… pic.twitter.com/ItgUSfteAr — Wimar.X (@DefiWimar) February 23, 2026 Factcheck: Yes, per official U.S. Customs & Border Protection announcement (CSMS #67834313, Feb 22): They will stop collecting the IEEPA-based Trump tariffs (specific EOs on borders, China, Venezuela, reciprocal trade, etc.) at …
Your bank earns 5% on your money, you earn 0.4%, and you can’t fix it. Banks pay you 0.4% interest on your deposits, then take your money & put it at the Fed, which pays them 5% interest on your money. Federal law bars you from cutting out the middleman & depositing your money at …
$21 BILLION IN OBAMACARE SUBSIDIES CAN’T BE TRACED TO ACTUAL PEOPLE Government Accountability Office decided to see if anyone’s actually watching the store. So they made 20 completely fictitious applicants – no real people, no documentation, just testing if the system would notice. 18 of them are still actively covered. September 2025. Monthly payout: over …
New York millionaires: threatening to flee the city since 2009 pic.twitter.com/nuOLxApYGW — The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) November 7, 2025 NY State saw peaks of over 3,000 millionaires leaving annually around 2020, with cumulative net outflows shrinking its U.S. millionaire share from 12.7% in 2010 to 8.7% in 2022. High earners contribute about 40% of income …
Coming November 1st, if you are collecting Snap / EBT, you are required to work 80 hours a month in order to collect benefits: pic.twitter.com/I5mQAD8Z6R — AlphaFox (@alphafox) October 21, 2025 Here’s what’s changing: Who must comply: Adults aged 18 to 64 who are physically and mentally able to work and do not have a …
The US is now collecting ~$255 Billion in annualized revenue from Trump’s tariffs pic.twitter.com/5Jh3xtiHNp — Geiger Capital (@Geiger_Capital) May 28, 2025
via YSK: It could save you thousands and protect your future. On May 5, the U.S. Department of Education will commence collecting on student loans after a five-year hiatus. This is going to throw thousands of American lives into chaos, and you should know what your rights are when dealing with collection agencies. U.S. Department …
Temeika Clay couldn’t understand why her car insurance premium shot up 80 percent. The Henry County, Georgia, resident did some digging and obtained the LexisNexis credit report for her Chevy Camaro. The credit report revealed GM had collected data about her driving tendencies and made the information available to insurance companies. “Never did I imagine …
by tremens-delirium YSK: Major car manufacturers admit in their privacy policies to collecting a wide range of your personal information, to illustrate: Nissan: Their US privacy policy states they can collect data on your “characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, and abilities.“ Kia: Their data collection includes sensitive information like “genetic information, sex life, medical …
by Chris Black This used to be a conspiracy theory a few years ago. Now they’re admitting it freely. The question is: what are they doing with people’s DNA? I mean, other than race-specific bio weapons? Because yeah, Alex Jones was right on this one.
