Seriously?  No. The progressive income tax is welfare to the unwashed masses.

After one of George Bush’s tax cuts, almost 50% of tax filers paid no federal income tax. They have no skin in the game.

The progressive income tax punishes the hardest workers in society.

   Not really.

  And FJB did not get 81 million votes.  He also didn't win legitimately.

Alan Shepherd would have just pitched the booster and carried on.

...is worse than the old mayor:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11950187/Chicagos-new-liberal-mayor-blames-spiraling-violent-crime-BUSINESSES.html

"Brandon Johnson, a former union organizer who was elected on Tuesday, said the city doesn't have money to solve its problem because '70 percent of large corporations in the state of Illinois don't pay a corporate tax'."



'It's that type of restraint on our budget that has caused the type if disinvestment that has led to poverty, of course that has led to violence,' said Johnson, who didn't give the source for his claim.

The 47-year-old Cook County commissioner beat candidate Paul Vallas, 69, who had the backing of Chicago's police union, by around 13,000 votes. Johnson will replace ousted mayor Lori Lightfoot, who fell out of favor after crime surged under her.

Top of Johnson's agenda will be reversing the city's spiraling crime rate and dealing with out-of-control homelessness that's transformed part of O'Hare International Airport into a grubby makeshift shelter."

You and me both.

"Go where you're treated best."
     --The Nomad Capitalist.

I'm not fanatical, nor am I a prepper, but it's wise to be proactive and we're getting close to the point where we're going to have to put our plans into action.

Bongino's take today is that the balloon was not about spying, more about China saying we own you and can do anything we want.