RT Connor Boyack 📚 (@cboyack)Socialism sounds great in a dorm room. It falls apart in a grocery store. ...

This was not a hard one to call, if you've studied history rather than socialist propaganda.https://t.co/gxKFs1cGjuMarty O'Donnell (@MartyTheElder):This guy ran for office promising that he would raise taxes on billionaires and freeze the rents and it only took him 45 days to announce massive tax hikes that will hurt the middle class and result in rents being raised.This is why we don't elect communists, kids. ...

RT Connor Boyack 📚 (@cboyack)New York City's socialist mayor Zohran Mamdani has now proposed making all city buses fare-free.The cost: $800 million per year. The funding source? TBD. Which in govt. speak means: you.It's the socialist playbook in its purest form:Step 1: Promise something "free"Step 2: Find out it costs hundreds of millionsStep 3: Demand someone else pay for itStep 4: When it fails, blame capitalismHere's what a free market approach looks like: if bus transit is so valuable, riders will pay f ...

RT Handre van Heerden (@Handrev)In 1920s Soviet Union, planners decided Moscow needed more nails. So they ordered factories to produce tons of nails—literally. Clever factory managers made huge, heavy nails to hit their weight targets with minimal effort. When planners caught on and switched to counting nails by quantity, factories cranked out thousands of tiny, useless pins.This wasn't incompetence—it was inevitable. Without market prices, socialist planners had no way to know what people actually wanted o ...

RT Will Tanner (@Will_Tanner_1)Some of the grandest and most beautiful of the country homes--Hamilton Palace and Trentham Hall, as just two examples--were destroyed in the years after WWII because the spiteful and envious socialist government taxed into oblivion the families who had held them for centuriesIt was a cultural revolution on par with what happened in China, but because it was carried out by "democracy" in the name of "equity" we're told that it was a good thing. It was not. Destroying the landed ...

RT Handre van Heerden (@Handrev)In 1961, East German guards received secret orders to begin construction at midnight. By dawn, barbed wire stretched across Berlin. Within days, it became concrete and guard towers.The irony was lost on no one: a worker's paradise that required machine guns to keep workers from escaping to the capitalist hellscape next door. Over 28 years, at least 140 people died trying to cross that wall.The Berlin Wall wasn't unique. From the Iron Curtain to North Korea's DMZ, socialist st ...

RT Nick Szabo (@NickSzabo4)This reminds me of some prior socialists.The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics built the Berlin Wall, shot their people who tried to cross it without permission, and put up many other barriers make it hard for people to leave their country-sized prison. ...

RT Handre van Heerden (@Handrev)In 1920, Mises dropped an intellectual atom bomb on socialism with a simple question: "How do you know what anything costs without market prices?"While Soviet planners were drowning in millions of arbitrary calculations, trying to set prices for everything from bread to bulldozers by committee, Mises had already proven it impossible. As Rothbard later quipped: "Socialist calculation is like trying to play chess blindfolded while your opponent keeps moving the board."Today's c ...

Every child born in the United States forever more will start life off with an investment account seated with a thousand dollars in the S&P 500. They'll own a little bit of SpaceX. They'll own a little bit of Open AI. They'll own a little bit of Nvidia.That is what we need to do is just a first step in making sure we can hold this experiment together for the next 250 years. Right. When we have this rate of change, the president said something on stage last week.In 15 to 20 years, we will have $4 trillion do ...

RT Nick Szabo (@NickSzabo4)This reminds me of some prior socialists.The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics built the Berlin Wall, shot their people who tried to cross it without permission, and put up many other barriers make it hard for people to leave their country-sized prison. ...