This chain is a regional treasure. IYKYK

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Yes exactly. The state doesn't actually need the money to get the money. Just the debt, (which can wait until you are literally dead) so they can bond against it. As long as you *eventually* pay its cool. But these tax revolt guys just want to steal the money for themselves bsky.app/profile/onbl...

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This is the easiest argument in the world to rebut: if you are concerned about this you can create a system by which seniors can defer paying property tax increases until they die or sell their home. The state, unlike you, is immortal and doesn't really care when you actually pay

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The closest Continental troops are a brigade of seven hundred fifty commanded by John Glover. “Oh! The anxiety of mind I was in then for the fate of the day”: As the sun rises, Glover studies the fleet of transports through his telescope from a hilltop.

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18 OCTOBER 1776, PELL’S POINT, NEW YORK: At dawn, four thousand British troops under Henry Clinton make a landing, three miles north of where the British army landed at Throggs Neck six days ago.

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