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  1. My unpopular take is that American taxpayers should never be on the hook to pay for lethal weapons that are given to other nations' governments. IF a US citizen wants to help fund the military of other nations, the way I think it should be handled is that all barriers should be ended that would prevent them from buying treasury bonds from, or sending earmarked donations to, the foreign nations they wish to support.

    This is what my grandparents did when they bought Israeli savings bonds back in the 1960's, in the years before 1974 when funding the IDF became a regular line item that US tax payers were obligated for.

    "Funny" how the regime that was elected under a promise of "America First" has been pushing for more massive burdens on US taxpayers to fund foreign armies, using deceitful rhetoric that these are "arms sales", when they are in fact transferred at the USA's citizens' expense.

    As always with this stuff - I am not holding my breath to see this change. Oh well.


    #uspolitics #politics #maga #taxes #war #trump #militaryindustrialcomplex #foreignaid #idiocracy #oligarchy #kleptocracy #israel #idf
  2. Things to Know

    Taxes In America — a clear look at how we got from colonial resistance to today’s paycheck withholding and endless fairness debates.
    Read it here
    #Taxes
    #Government
    #History

    crealock37.wordpress.com/2026/

  3. Trump’s $5,000 dividend check proposal draws mixed voter reactions

    NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Voters aren’t convinced that President Donald Trump will make good…
    #NewsBeep #News #Headlines #DonaldTrump #growingthedebt #MidtermElections #Politics #Taxes #UnitedStates #Us #USA
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  4. Make a Game of Life

    In North Loup, Nebraska, where I spent my boyhood summers with my grandfather, the television pulled one signal out of the sky, channel 10/11, and when the picture dissolved into snow the day still had eight hours left in it. A boy in a town like that learns the oldest technology on earth. Boredom is a raw material. A long afternoon wants shape, and shape comes from rules: the stick is a bat because we agree it is, the crack in the walk is a foul line because we say so, the score matters because we decide it matters. Nobody sold us that afternoon. We manufactured it ourselves, on the spot, out of dust and agreement, and the dust became the best part of the summer. […]

    bolesblogs.com/2026/09/15/make

  5. Make a Game of Life

    In North Loup, Nebraska, where I spent my boyhood summers with my grandfather, the television pulled one signal out of the sky, channel 10/11, and when the picture dissolved into snow the day still had eight hours left in it. A boy in a town like that learns the oldest technology on earth. Boredom is a raw material. A long afternoon wants shape, and shape comes from rules: the stick is a bat because we agree it is, the crack in the walk is a foul line because we say so, the score matters because we decide it matters. Nobody sold us that afternoon. We manufactured it ourselves, on the spot, out of dust and agreement, and the dust became the best part of the summer. […]

    bolesblogs.com/2026/09/15/make

  6. Make a Game of Life

    In North Loup, Nebraska, where I spent my boyhood summers with my grandfather, the television pulled one signal out of the sky, channel 10/11, and when the picture dissolved into snow the day still had eight hours left in it. A boy in a town like that learns the oldest technology on earth. Boredom is a raw material. A long afternoon wants shape, and shape comes from rules: the stick is a bat because we agree it is, the crack in the walk is a foul line because we say so, the score matters because we decide it matters. Nobody sold us that afternoon. We manufactured it ourselves, on the spot, out of dust and agreement, and the dust became the best part of the summer. […]

    bolesblogs.com/2026/09/15/make

  7. Make a Game of Life

    In North Loup, Nebraska, where I spent my boyhood summers with my grandfather, the television pulled one signal out of the sky, channel 10/11, and when the picture dissolved into snow the day still had eight hours left in it. A boy in a town like that learns the oldest technology on earth. Boredom is a raw material. A long afternoon wants shape, and shape comes from rules: the stick is a bat because we agree it is, the crack in the walk is a foul line because we say so, the score matters because we decide it matters. Nobody sold us that afternoon. We manufactured it ourselves, on the spot, out of dust and agreement, and the dust became the best part of the summer. […]

    bolesblogs.com/2026/09/15/make

  8. Make a Game of Life

    In North Loup, Nebraska, where I spent my boyhood summers with my grandfather, the television pulled one signal out of the sky, channel 10/11, and when the picture dissolved into snow the day still had eight hours left in it. A boy in a town like that learns the oldest technology on earth. Boredom is a raw material. A long afternoon wants shape, and shape comes from rules: the stick is a bat because we agree it is, the crack in the walk is a foul line because we say so, the score matters because we decide it matters. Nobody sold us that afternoon. We manufactured it ourselves, on the spot, out of dust and agreement, and the dust became the best part of the summer. […]

    bolesblogs.com/2026/09/15/make