Well, the Nets played in the NBA Finals twice while in New Jersey and zero times since moving to Brooklyn. Go Knicks. And enjoy your time in New Jersey for the World Cup – we understand why you want to be us.

In all seriousness… I grew up a huge fan of the New Jersey Nets. When the Nets decided to abandon us, they spent the next 7 years insulting the State and all of us fans. So many of us here in NJ who were Nets fans have migrated over to the Knicks for one reason or another. There are basically no Nets fans left in NJ and the State is firmly behind the Knicks. This was an incredible run and cements that.

Lots of calls for a wealth tax lately. It sounds good: tax the super-rich more so we can have more money for government services. But a couple of quick things you won't hear in the sound bites. Europe tried a wealth tax and mostly abandoned it. One big reason is that countries found that the cost of enforcing it were often higher than the tax revenue it brought in. Little to no money actually made it to those who needed it. To tax 'wealth' you need an army of new, highly trained (and highly paid) IRS agents to comb through super complex situations. Taxing income is relatively easy. Just take a specific % of a specific number and deduct a few things. Taxing wealth is hard, messy and incredibly complex (again, don't believe me .. ask the European nations who tried and abandoned it). And then what do you do when wealth falls? Let's say a family is worth $20 billion. They are taxed. Their family stock (and remember that 'wealth' is going to almost always be in stock, never in income) falls by 50%. Does the IRS have to write a billion-dollar refund check back to the family for taxing them on wealth that no longer exists? The family will sue for the money back. Which means another army of IRS agents will spend years tied up in analysis and litigation. Everyday taxpayers can and will fight audits over relatively small sums of money. What do you think the rich and their team of accountants are going to do? But we are a democracy and its voters demand it or Congress votes for it, let's give it a try. Maybe we can do taxes better than Europe. We certainly are a lot richer these days as they've driven themselves into a ditch. One upside of a new wealth tax would certainly be on DC real estate. We'd have to hire a massive number of new, well-paid auditors who will need a place to live. Anyway, you don't have to believe me. I work for CNBC know a lot of rich people so this will largely be discounted anyway. Do some quick research or use Chat or Gemini or whatever and let it give you an unvarnished answer. But like all things you hear ... things are usually more complex than simple sound bites -- or X posts -- can relate. Always happy to have polite, kind and fair debates on any topic. Look forward to further discussion. Go USA soccer and Go Knicks!

A bunch of drunk Scotsmen partying in the same harbor where the founding fathers dumped tea is what the World Cup is all about

The Governor’s family is 100 percent a soccer family (our daughters very briefly played on the same team-my daughter said her daughter is a “very good player and nice”). Let’s hope everything goes smoothly this evening.

We should make sure Americans are not pursuing entrepreneurial, game-changing, humanity-improving innovations and inventions that create enormous value and catapult American competitiveness? That culture and pursuit are what makes America special and unique. And it’s why Europe has no trillion dollar companies and is nowhere in the ai revolution or technology

I believe in progressive taxation. I would advocate for a surtax on all income over a certain amount (say 2% over $10 million). I would especially be in favor of that money was used purely to pay down our country’s crippling debt. However— trash like this tweet has to stop. Elon Musk employs hundreds of thousands of people and has made more than that wealthy. He’s built incredible American companies that have and continue to change our world for the better. Saying stupid crap like this only weakens the left’s valid progressive taxation arguments and makes it lose credibility.

Elon Musk did not today take $1 trillion from anyone. He created $2.3 trillion in value that did not exist prior to him creating SpaceX. New inventions create new value in the world. They don’t transfer existing value. If you do not understand this, please, take a basic economics course, or remain on the sidelines.

This is the same neighborhood that spent two years fighting… coffee shops in the NJIT redevelopment plan years ago. This is low key (as my kids would say) one of the most NIMBY neighborhoods in northern NJ… which is amazing since they live in downtown Newark.

0.3% of the water consumed by US golf courses last year

"eggplant parmesan right here, boom, on garlic bread" best state in the US of A

The next trillionaire will undoubtedly get there by solving some very important problems (like advancing electrification of global personal transportation by a decade or more, dramatically cutting the $/kg of taking stuff to orbit, or supplying wireless broadband internet to the entire planet). I want to live in the world that person will help create.

It also seems noteworthy that Platner told his right-wing girlfriend that he got the tattoo because he and his unit were “killers,” and he told the leftist girlfriend it was to remind him that America is evil. The pathological lying goes way back.

It’s always so funny when socialists have to get their rich fathers in law to fund their super PACs. wlns.com/your-local-election…

By my count this is the third former Platner girlfriend who says he long knew his Nazi tattoo was a Nazi tattoo. At this point anyone who believes his claim that he didn’t know until October 2025 is simply deluding themselves. It also suggests that Platner is not only a liar … but even worse he believed he could peddle this lie even though he’d told multiple people the truth. That’s a lot more than a character flaw.

If the UN felt compelled to say this, imagine how bad the situation must be…

My statement regarding Graham Platner

Yes. 10000 times yes.

Not sure how many folks believe in Karma or Sports Gods or whatever… But this game 10000% flipped the moment Wemby got his flagrant foul. 🤷‍♂️

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