Sometimes it seems Washington’s planners compete to find the most absurd ways to spend our money. Take Baltimore’s “Block” of strip joints and adult shops: $338,000 is being spent to make the area more accessible with tree plantings and wheelchair cuts apparently ensuring the physically disabled can comfortably visit porno shops! While satire aside, one wonders if resources couldn’t go toward more practical projects like park benches for the homeless or a museum celebrating disappearing Americana like farm mules or outhouses. Bureaucratic priorities often feel out of touch with common sense, and while humor helps us tolerate the madness, the underlying question remains: are we running out of meaningful ways to invest public funds? #GovernmentSpending #Bureaucracy #WastefulSpending #PublicFunds #WashingtonDC #FiscalResponsibility #Satire #CommunityDevelopment #HUD #Priorities

Over-licensing and over-ticketing have become a modern assault on American initiative and freedom. A young entrepreneur with a camera and a pony, providing a wholesome service, faces fines and potential jail simply because he cannot secure 82 separate municipal licenses—licenses that serve the cities’ revenue more than the public good. Meanwhile, real criminals often receive lighter consequences than law-abiding citizens, highlighting a system that targets compliance rather than justice. Excessive licensing and petty ticketing erode trust in civil agencies, limit independence, and punish enterprise, turning ordinary citizens into revenue sources while stifling opportunity. True freedom and initiative are being curtailed under the guise of regulation. #OverLicensed #OverTicketed #CivilLiberty #Entrepreneurship #FreedomUnderThreat #Bureaucracy #AmericanEnterprise #OverRegulation #TaxShakedown #LibertyMatters"

A Christian View on the Menace of American StatismTaxation touches every aspect of our lives, from income and property to gasoline, entertainment, and even our estates, and yet the burden often feels arbitrary and excessive. While some taxes may be necessary, the scope of modern levies from birth to death reveals a system where the citizen is constantly treated as a revenue source rather than a free individual. The Sixteenth Amendment grants the federal government nearly unlimited authority to tax, and Congress exercises that authority with the consent of voters, making citizens partially responsible for their own over-taxation. As taxation grows alongside government spending, both personal and collective financial discipline become essential; without restraint, we jeopardize our freedom, prosperity, and even the stability of the nation. #Taxation #OverTaxed #IRS #GovernmentSpending #FiscalResponsibility #Liberty #IncomeTax #FinancialFreedom #CitizenResponsibility #EconomicAccountability