“Repealing the income tax is a giveaway to the rich.” A response to moderates and leftists.

The income or labor tax is a control system that punishes everyone, especially the working class.

1. Taxing labor is an assault on human dignity

Taxing a person’s wages is a direct tax on their very ability to live. It tells the worker, “Before you can feed your family, we take our cut.” It means the state gets the first claim on a person’s time, effort, and productivity before they can provide for themselves and their families.

That is nothing short of state-sanctioned servitude. If a person does not own the fruits of their labor first, what freedom do they truly have?

Even liberals who talk about “economic justice” ought to see the problem here.

If a person does not own his own labor first, then he does not own himself. That is the moral foundation of this argument. There is no justice in a system that claims ownership over a man’s wages before he even sees them.

The government has no right to claim the first fruits of a man’s labor. It is HIS property and the just government is to preserve and defend people’s God-given, unalienable rights to their property by which they sustain their lives. This is a fundamental truth.

1/5 2. The Income Tax Scam: How the rich get richer and the middle class gets crushed

Here’s the dirty little secret politicians do not want you to know: the wealthy suffer the least under income taxation. They have loopholes, exemptions, trusts, tax shelters, and the ability to move their wealth into non-taxable investments out of the IRS’s reach.

The ones who get hurt the most? The middle class—small business owners, skilled tradesmen, and young professionals trying to provide for their families, but bearing the weight of labor taxes. They do not have tax attorneys or offshore accounts.

They have paychecks—and the government siphons off a portion before workers ever touch them.

If you really want the rich to “pay their fair share,” stop penalizing the act of working. The current system punishes those who show up, clock in, and put in honest work.

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🧵 Sexual freedom isn’t free. God’s design for sex is the key to joy and thriving.

The world’s promise of pleasure apart from God’s design comes at a cost: broken families, ruined lives, victimized children, and a crumbling society.

Paganism offers this lie, but its “freedom” destroys everything good.

1/10 What is paganism?

Paganism denies God’s Creator/creation distinction and rejects His natural order.

It blurs all boundaries—Creator/creature, male/female—and exalts human autonomy.

Egalitarianism is an expression of this rebellion, flattening God-given roles and hierarchies. The result, among other sexual immoralities and their effects:

• Pornography
• Premarital sex
• Adultery
• Homosexuality
• Abortion
• Transgenderism
• Transhumanism
• Bestiality

This rebellion leads to chaos and destruction.

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🧵 There are potentially ENORMOUS ramifications to this anti-ESG ruling.

Have you ever wondered why virtually every company, even those with conservative customer bases, participate in Pride Month? HINT: It's not because they think it will increase sales. (1/5)

https://twitter.com/WillHild/status/1877788214397751511

It's because they want a good ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) score, which gives them access to lower interest rates and other corrupt benefits from the far-left activists who have captured influential financial insutitions. (2/5)

https://x.com/RyanMaue/status/1861833152563454417

Here’s how I explain my Bitcoin Freedom Act (SB325) to one of my sons today.

Here’s how the Bitcoin Freedom Act could matter to you, especially if you start working for someone else. 1/8 1. Your Money, Your Choice

When you get your paycheck, you usually get paid in dollars. But dollars can lose value over time because of inflation, which makes everything more expensive.

This bill lets you choose to save or get paid in Bitcoin, depending on if it is earning value better than the dollar.

Bitcoin isn’t controlled by a government. It’s is a kind of digital money that you control, without needing a bank or anyone else to manage it for you.

It’s like having cash in your pocket, but on your phone or computer.

🧵9 Reasons to Repeal Federal and State Income Tax

1. Freedom Begins Where Taxation Ends

A government that seizes your earnings is a government that seizes your freedom.

Every dollar taken by the state is a dollar lost to your own vision for your family and future. @realDonaldTrump's reported goal to repeal federal income taxes is a historic step toward restoring Americans’ rights to life, liberty, and property, returning power to the people rather than bureaucrats. In Oklahoma, @GovStitt’s commitment to a path to zero state income taxes shows he understands that a true free state starts with free citizens. 2. Cut the Cord on Government Gluttony

Tax dollars should serve the people, not feed the beast.

Income taxes fund a bloated, corrupt system that grows endlessly and serves its own interests. By slashing income taxes, President Trump and Governor Stitt would force government to focus on essentials, cutting off waste and corruption. Every American—Democrat, Independent, and Republican—should see this as a moral imperative.

🧵The Pro-Abortion Movement's Latest Lie

Abortion activists claim that a woman died because of a Georgia pro-life law. This brief thread will prove how dishonest their claim is and how widespread this particular lie is becoming. (1/6)

https://twitter.com/KamalaHarris/status/1836225824510324818

According to the @propublica report, Amber Thurman took abortion pills to kill her twins, but some of the remains of her twins remained in her uterus rather than being naturally expelled. She then went to the hospital. (2/6)

🧵8 Laws Every Parent Should Know

by @heritagedefense attorney @bradleywpierce

As an attorney with Heritage Defense, I frequently get questions from homeschool parents about laws affecting their parental rights. As a parent myself, I have had many of the same questions.

Based on my experience practicing law for over 16 years, and being a dad for 13, here are eight state laws I think every homeschool parent should know: 1/ ⦿ Do vaccine mandates apply to homeschoolers?

⦿ Who are mandatory reporters, and why is that important?

⦿ When can your child get healthcare without you knowing or consenting?

⦿ What are the laws about spanking?

⦿ How long does your child have to ride in a car seat?

⦿ When can you leave your child in the car while you run in the store?

⦿ When can a child be left home alone?

⦿ Can a CPS social worker come into your home without your consent?

These answers vary by state. To help you understand the law in your state, Heritage Defense has researched and compiled all these laws and many more in our free Law and Policy Vault. 2/

my.heritagedefense.org/access-the-vau…

Before analyzing it, let me be clear that Pastor Johnston's children are created in God's image and I pray nothing but God's blessing on all of them.

But this astonishingly awful article on IVF contains not merely error but Christological heresy and defense of murder. 🧵(1/10)

https://twitter.com/jackngraham/status/1827802101277401371

Johnston writes in his article: "An embryo is not synonymous with a child."

When sperm meets egg, a new, living human being is formed. Every embryologist in the world knows that life begins at fertilization/conception. Actually, forget embryologists. Everyone who graduated sixth grade biology knows this. This point is not in dispute.

"To accept the fact that, after fertilization has taken place, a new human has come into being is no longer a matter of taste or opinion...It is the plain experimental evidence." -Dr. Jerome LeJeune, Genetics Professor at University of Descartes

"Every human embryologist in the world knows that the life of the new individual human being begins at fertilization. It is not belief. It is scientific fact." -Dr. Ward Kischer, University of Arizona College of Medicine
(2/10)

🧵Info on Upcoming Tax Cuts

Though I hoped for even greater cuts and filed legislation to do so, I am very pleased that we were able to at least get rid of the 4.5% state grocery tax, which is set to be eliminated for all Oklahomans beginning next Thursday, August 29th. (1/9) In addition to eliminating the State sales tax, the new law also prohibits cities and counties from raising local grocery tax rates until July 1, 2025. According to recent data, the new law will save the average family of four in Oklahoma roughly 60 dollars per month. (2/9)

🧵Fact Checking the Fact Checkers on Tim Walz's Pedophile Protection Act

You'll find many angry replies under this post claiming I'm lying about the bill and that USA Today and Politico have "debunked" my claim. I wish that were true. Sadly, it is not. (1/16)

https://twitter.com/DustyDeevers/status/1821571054269288723

The previous Minnesota definition of "sexual orientation" excluded pedophilia. But the new version signed by Walz repeals that exclusion. The effect is that pedophiles now have a good case that "sexual orientation" includes them. (2/16)

🧵New Undercover Footage of Planned Parenthood Ghouls

"I'm like, 'yeah, I have a leg for you!' I'm like, 'Oh s***, if other people were to hear me, they'd be like, 'You are f****** evil.'"

"You'll be desensitized for playing with the tissue. I know it seems morbid." (1/10)

https://twitter.com/CtrMedProgress/status/1821502663454081494

And a second newly-released video:

"I might ask for a second set of forceps to hold the body at the cervix and then pull off a leg or two." (2/10)

🧵Tim Walz Left-Wing Insanity Megathread

The media would have you believe Walz is a "folksy" moderate. But as Minnesota Governor, Walz signed HF146 allowing the state to strip custody from parents seeking to prevent their kids from undergoing "sex-change" surgeries. (1/25) Just a few months ago, Walz signed HF2497, a bill mandating that Minnesota schools provide tampons in boys bathrooms. (2/25)

President Trump concluding the RNC with Puccini’s “Nessun Dorma” is fascinating and obviously fraught with meaning. The aria (i.e. opera solo) is renowned for its themes of perseverance, ultimate triumph, and sometimes the political defeat of evil. (1/7) In the play Turandot, the aria is sung by Calaf and embodies a powerful message of unwavering resolve and the promise of victory despite seemingly insurmountable challenges. The aria closes with “At dawn, I will win! I will win! I will win!” (2/7)

🧵The Left Must Lose. The Right Must Not Compromise in Order to Do So.

Deranged leftist "Human Rights" activists attempted to lock up 20-year-old Alexander Jerich for years under hate crime laws for a hate crime committed against...

*checks notes*

...a crosswalk.

(1/15)

https://twitter.com/DougMackeyCase/status/1813439884964647324

Because concrete is not a valid "victim" of a hate crime, the prosecutor dropped that charge, but still pursued other charges. The judge has now ordered Alexander to "repentance" and reeducation for his act of "blasphemy" against the LGBTQ+ religion by writing a 25-page report on the Pulse Nightclub shooting and volunteering for pro-LGBTQ+ organizations. (2/15)

🧵Trump, Neo-Cons, and the RNC

The removal of Christian morality from the RNC platform this week is a travesty that I fiercely oppose. But we must be realistic about what the previous platform really was. (1/17)





It was a tool for tricking Christian conservatives into thinking Neo-Conservatives (the previous Republican establishment) were our friends. Let me explain. (2/17)

🧵The Trump Shooting and Why the Right Must Win

Friday’s assassination attempt that wounded Former President Trump's ear and killed hero Corey Comperatore is an unconscionable attack on our Republic. (1/16) I pray for the Contemperatore family as well as for Trump and the others who were injured. More than anything, I pray that the violence would not escalate. (2/16)

🧵RNC Night 1

It has been said that parties are a reflection of those they represent and that we get the leaders we deserve. We need to come to terms with the hard truth that what we saw on night 1 of the RNC was a reflection of failed Christian political engagement. (1/)

With as many Christians as are in the US, this should not be happening. Many Christians, for far too long, have been apathetic to and compromising with cultural evils, fearful in the face of worldly power, and critical of bold Christians who apply Christ to politics. (2/)

🧵Abortion, Marriage, and the RNC

As a Republican State Senator, my intention is to represent my people well and be faithful to the King of kings, Jesus Christ. These two things are never in conflict. Rather, they necessarily go together. (1/13) I represent my people best when I champion the integrity and moral values taught in God’s Word. (2/13)

🧵 Two years ago, Roe was overturned. Today, we have billboards advertising the abortion pill in pro-life Oklahoma where abortion has supposedly been banned. (1/5) Ordering and ingesting these pills and murdering your preborn child is completely legal because every pro-life law we have passed in recent years is written explicitly not to apply to the mother herself. (2/5)

12 Brief Notes on the @RollingStone article.

1. I’ve cut my own hair since I was a junior in high school. Thanks for the compliment. Also, my jackets are not tailored. Maybe someday.

2. Unsurprisingly, you missed the distinction I made on “firewalls” between the church and state, and what it means that civil servants, through just law and enforcement “terrorize evildoers.” You wrote that I am a “...hardcore Christian nationalist who believes the government should ‘terrorize evildoers.’” and that, “I don’t see any firewalls that are provided to me by the scriptures.”

In that discussion and here, I articulate the Christian position that there is a distinction between the roles and tools of the church and those of the state.

The church bears the “sword of the Spirit,” namely, the Word of God (Eph 6:17) for conversion of heart, construction of holy living, and correction of sin.

Civil servants bear the sword of justice to protect innocent people’s God-given rights to life, liberty, and property, and inflict “God’s wrath upon wrongdoers.” In this way just law and punishment terrorize evildoers. This is simply Romans 13:1-4.

“For rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Would you have no fear of the one who is in authority? Then do what is good, and you will receive his approval, for he is God's servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God's wrath on the wrongdoer” (Rom 13:3-4)

While there is a distinction between the roles and tools of the church and state, there is no firewall between God’s rule over the church and His rule over the state, because Christ is King over all by His essential rule as God and His mediatorial rule as God-Man.

All things were created by, for, and through Christ and He rules over all things “in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities” (Col 1:16).

rollingstone.com/politics/polit… 3. “Surveying American society, Deevers does not see a religious sphere and a secular sphere...” This is good. Thank you for including. As reported, “In Deevers’ view, civil society, apart from the influence of overt Christian doctrine, is not a neutral middle ground, but rather the realm of the devil, or what he calls ‘a serpentine theocracy.’”

4. “Deevers is operating in the open.” Yes. Like Jesus said, “Let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven” (Matt 5:16)

5. You’re wrong here. Our message is not “woe be to any nonbelievers,” but come to Christ and know forgiveness of sins, eternal life in the fullness of joy. Also, Christians are offering to protect all people’s God-given rights with equal weights and measures for all. “When the righteous increase, the people rejoice, but when the wicked rule, the people groan” (Prov 29:2).

6. “elder millennial vibes” Sounds cool.

7. Our nation is not a “democracy.” Never has been. We are “a republic, if we can keep it,” to paraphrase Benjamin Franklin.

An IVF/ART 🧵

The IVF and ART industry engages in overtly wicked practices. As reproductive technology moves further from God’s naturally provided means for creating life, we trudge deeper into morally murky waters after having passed through the piranha infestation. 🧵 As a society exchanges the ways of God for their own, they become “inventors of evil” and there are always consequences (Romans 1:30).

Here are a few:
(1) Discarding supernumerary embryos:

https://twitter.com/DustyDeevers/status/1682453256100892672?s=20