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Can someone help me understand why value increased by 8% but my taxes increased by 33% in 2023, and this year the taxes increased by more than the assessment increased?!? Griffith, IN. I don't know who to tag but maybe this guy can help... @realEstateTrent
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Steve Rich retweeted
When I was County Judge Executive in Lewis County Kentucky, I was responsible for signing the check that paid for every phone landline and cellphone billed to the county.
At first it seemed impossible to ferret out the waste, fraud, and abuse for these phone plans.
How many phones were taxpayers paying for that were defunct? How many were former county employees who were no longer employed but had been able to keep their phone and mooch off the taxpayer? Was any of it fraudulent or inaccurate billing by the service provider?
But then I came up with an idea… I told every county department (Sheriff, Clerk, Road Crew, Jail, etc.) to give me a list of their phones matched to their county employees or offices.
In one month, I would DEACTIVATE EVERY PHONE that wasn’t on one of these lists.
A month went by and only about 80% complied with the directive to list their phones. I gave them one more month and issued a serious warning that their phones would be turned off at the end of the next month.
Finally, I directed the phone company to deactivate all phones that weren’t accounted for. Guess what?
The jailer called me up and said the finger print machine wouldn’t send finger prints to the state police anymore. Ha! That was the only legitimate phone line that I deactivated. We quickly got it reactivated.
I ended up saving our county thousands of dollars on the phone bill, much to the chagrin of the phone company and a few moochers who no longer had free phone plans. I think most of the savings came from phones that just weren’t in service but had been left on the bill.
Why do I tell this story? Because what Elon is doing by asking federal employees to list five things they did in a week is brilliant. Requiring any kind of an affirmative response from a worker will prove whether that worker even exists and can be reached. Don’t forget, the Inspector General for Afghanistan found out we were paying millions for soldiers and police in Afghanistan who didn’t even exist (ghost employees). There’s no telling what Elon’s plan will uncover. We will find some employees can’t use email or aren’t even literate enough to write five things. So everyone take a chill pill and write down your five things to let us know you exist and you can read email and you aren’t completely insubordinate. Then we can clean the roster.
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Steve Rich retweeted
EXCLUSIVE: Weeks before Trump takes office, Biden is racing to auction off unused border wall materials.
Video shows trucks hauling wall materials off the border to a government auction site, where a massive amount of wall is waiting to be sold.
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Steve Rich retweeted
94 year old Auschwitz camp Holocaust survivor — and Trump voter — calls out Kamala for comparing Trump to Hitler. This is powerful, share it:
Josh Christenson
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I never realized how big of a business "orginazion* was, I've spent at least $500 this year buying stuff to put my stuff in. My parents never prepared me for this 🤯
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Steve Rich retweeted
Democrats explicitly calling for political violence.
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I hope he gets the chance to debate Trump. Americans want a president that gives them hope and brings people together
RFK Jr’s closing statement at the Real Debate: “I’m going to stop the surveillance state.
I’m going to stop the propagandizing by our agencies of the American public.
I’m going to unravel the war machine.
I’m going to unravel the corrupt merger of state and corporate power.
I know how to do it. I’ve been litigating against these agencies for years, and I’m uniquely suited to do this.
I’m going to make sure that our Constitution is protected.
I’m going to bring AI and blockchain home because we need these new industries to grow our way out of the debt crisis.
This is something that those two aren’t even talking about.”
“An entire generation of Americans has lost pride in our country and hope in their own futures.
They can’t get into a home, the first generation in history in America that is going to live worse lives than their parents.
They see the vitriol that you saw here … that makes them disgusted with politics.
They’re seeing the corrupt merger of state and corporate power that has transformed our agencies from the CIA, the health agencies, the environmental agencies into sock puppets for the industries they’re supposed to regulate.
They’re seeing the destruction of our soils, the destruction of our air and water.
If you want more of the same, you should vote for President Trump or President Biden.
You know what’s going to happen. You know that. They’re going to give you four more years of the same stuff.
If you want things to completely change, you’re going to support me because I’m going to change everything.”
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Steve Rich retweeted
This explains why Democrats always talk about "saving out Democracy"
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This is a crazy story, but also, no one died because it was a *Tesla* (the safest vehicle) @iamtomnash people.com/wife-of-doctor-wh…
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