If the @nba’s goal was to get people to turn off the finals, they certainly succeeded.

Milton Friedman's greatest regret. The federal government discovered the perfect crime in 1943: make employers collect taxes before workers ever see their paychecks. You think you earn $60,000 per year, but you actually earn $75,000 and hand over $15,000 to politicians without ever touching it. The psychological difference is enormous. Before payroll withholding, Americans wrote quarterly checks directly to the Treasury. Picture yourself sitting at your kitchen table, writing a $3,750 check to the IRS every three months. The pain was immediate and visceral. Politicians faced constant pressure to justify every dollar because citizens felt the extraction in real time. Withholding transforms this concrete loss into an abstract accounting entry. Your employer becomes an unpaid tax collector, and you never experience the actual cost of government. Worse, most people celebrate their tax refunds as government generosity rather than recognizing them as interest-free loans they provided to politicians. The Treasury collects your money throughout the year, spends it immediately, then returns your own cash and receives gratitude. This system enables the explosion in government spending you witness today. Defense contractors billing $640 for toilet seats, agricultural subsidies for corn syrup, and congressional salaries for 535 people who rarely show up to work. When taxation feels painless, voters stop demanding accountability for how their money gets spent. Milton Friedman helped design withholding as a wartime emergency measure and later called it his greatest regret. Free market economists recognized that the psychological pain of direct taxation creates political pressure for fiscal restraint. The temporary always becomes permanent in government hands, and the emergency justification disappears while the extraction mechanism remains forever.

Can I use AI to change my X feed to only show 1) sports related content 2) intelligent, non-politicized news. 3) cutting edge AI use cases and 4) generally interesting and relevant content for a growth equity investor? Sick of getting slop and Anger. All thoughts welcomed. Any ideas @grok

"Pi keeps walking into rooms it was never invited into and sitting at the head of the table."

That was a good halftime show

If there is such a thing as @ManUtd perfect day, this is it! Glory Glory!

I don’t really care about the Yankees or the Red Sox, but that was a great game last night. Love playoff baseball even without the Bravos or Cards!

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Wow. What a feeling. YOU REDS!! ❤️ @ManUtd

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