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Operation Chokepoint 69.0

Spicy dill pickle is the new pumpkin spice

Going to Madrid and Barcelona later this month, any suggestions on what you’ve seen or done there? I have a good game plan, just don’t want to miss out on a good suggestion!

Pay the fee, get in a block Tick Tock

As a way of “fixing” social security (aka kicking the can down the road a couple decades), I see people advocating for raising or eliminating the taxation cap on income. Typically, they’re unaware that raising the cap disproportionately to fed reported inflation has been going on almost since its inception. So there’s really no way of digging out of this hole, and nothing stops this train: “Since its inception, Social Security has featured a taxable maximum (or "tax max"). In 1937, payroll taxes applied to the first $3,000 in earnings. In 2011, payroll taxes apply to the first $106,800 in earnings. This policy brief summarizes the changes that have occurred to the tax max and to earnings patterns over this period. From 1937 to 1975, Congress increased the tax max on an ad-hoc basis. Increases were justified by the desire to improve system financing and maintain meaningful benefits for middle and higher earners. Since 1975, the tax max has generally increased at the same rate as average wages each year.” https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/policybriefs/pb2011-02.html $3,000 in 1937 would be the equivalent of a cap of $68,733.62 today (2025) https://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=3000&year1=193701&year2=202507 The cap in 2025 is $176,100, or 2.56 times higher than it was in 1937 when accounting for inflation.

Children yearn for the mines

Secondary pipe is what I call my Eskimo brother