Space Cadet

So Congress hasn't voted on the proposed budget yet.  The raw numbers is the Government is expected to spend 7 Trillion in the next year with 5.2 Trillion in revenue.  So a 1.7 trillion budget deficit.  This is the number the the Tariffs and the Budget cuts need to make up.   Only problem is the IRS is expecting the collected revenue to be down 10% due to cut backs.  I also expect lower revenue if layoffs continue as they are.  My own company did a 10% RIF globally.  But i wont bother calculating the layoffs in the rest.  So now Revenue is 4.7 Trillion(47 how fitting) now pushing the deficit to 2.3 Trillion.  Oh shit that hill just got a lot bigger boys. So lets talk these fucking tariffs.  They have been placed on and off again over the past week.  So since the Tariff was put in place up until it was pause was 10.35 Trillion.  Double the initial estimates expected revenue.  The pause was put in place and the market r...

“If a thousand men were not to pay their tax bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood. This is, in fact, the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible.”  The above quote is from 1849 Henry David Th oreau within his book Civil Disobedience.  He grappled with the governments support of the Mexican American war and the governments support of slavery.  His aunt even offered to pay the tax so he could avoid jail time.  He still refused out of principle as it being paid by another would still defeat the purpose of the protest. As of this morning the President Trump has threatened all citizens rights to peacefully protest by attempting to punish funding to colleges and students at those colleges.  The threat from the president was sent early morning via his Truth Social platform.  This is a direct attack on 1st amendment rights on...