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Great first post. I have it McEnelly, Welsh, Ferrari. Though I could be convinced it should be Welsh, McEnelly, Ferrari.

Mike Johnson is carrying Trump's water on this. Seat the new rep. Sign the resolution. Release the files.

Have him call me.

Too late. I told them I would do it for 9.

I can't get a sublet, a guest room, a cot? Nothing?

So what was your point of starting a thread about Chicago proposing a tax on Twitter and including a long article about taxing Twitter? Or was that just an excuse to bitch about other stuff?

Are you kidding? You do not know if you are a consumer of businesses you pay for, but you are convinced you are a consumer of something you get for free in exchange for your attention. The consumers on Twitter are the advertisers. And it is you they are consuming.

You are not a consumer on Twitter. You are a set of eyes. What do you currently pay for Twitter?

Once again, the proposal does not raise your taxes

The real question is how would the city even do this?

This isn't a tax on Chicagoans.

Companies pay taxes all the time. Well, they should, but sometimes don't. Meta's effective tax rate is below 12%.

I think no third party would make the investmemt unless the government went first. You want the government along side for protection.

I have a hard time giving a crap about taxing Meta and Twitter.

So far that hasn't even happened yet as near as I can tell. So far the US has bought pesos in the open market to support the currency. Unless the seller is the Argetine government, they do not get that dollars directly. Instead they just benefit from the support of their currency. The US is also talking about buying $20 billion directly from the government (the aforementioned swap), but Trump says that is contingent on Milei's party winning the upcoming election. Finally, Bessent talked about getting third parties to also do a $20 billion swap with the government.