🚨Understanding Real Taxation🚨

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1/@realDonaldTrump brought up interesting point yesterday at the his Liberation Day Speech. 2/It is true, Woodrow Wilson did in fact, greatly reduce tariffs through the Revenue Act of 1913, also known as Underwood-Simmons Tariff Act signed in October of 2013. This act did not just lower tariffs, it also shifted the cost of funding the government from taxation on foreign countries to direct taxation imposed upon the American people through the collection of Income Taxes.

🚨 We have a problem @theatlantic 🚨

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1/Aside from the strange timestamps mixed in with the messages labeled with how many minutes since the Signal text had been sent, the timeline provided by the Atlantic does not add up. The only messages in the signal group chat without valid time stamps also just happen to be the ones held back for “national security concerns”, yet subsequently released today by the Atlantic in a follow up article.

Either @jeffreygoldberg, the Editor in Chief of @theatlantic, is so unskilled as a journalist that he cannot keep accurate records, or these messages were sent to him as screenshots and he is trying his best to piece together as if he were reading them in real time.

Let’s Dive in. 2/ Goldberg initially established his timeline concerning the Signal Chat and the day of the Houthis Strike in his first article published on Monday, March 24th. This timeline was also revisited in the second article from the Atlantic today, March 26th.

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