Occasi-Cortez Channeling the Rent's too damn high guy

[keepthefaith]

The amount of media attention she's getting is insane until you weigh the entertainment value - for both political sides.   

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[boyst]

4 hours ago, keepthefaith said:

The amount of media attention she's getting is insane until you weigh the entertainment value - for both political sides.   

it's oddly just the same amount if not slightly a little less than Sarah Palin got

[ExiledInIllinois]

Wow... "AOC Derangement Syndrome" in full force."

 

What's to be scared about a silly "little girl"... A socialist , commie.  Hope that way of thinking doesn't catch fire.  Like taxing the extremely rich 70%... ?

[sherpa]

15 minutes ago, ExiledInIllinois said:

Wow... "AOC Derangement Syndrome" in full force."

 

What's to be scared about a silly "little girl"... A socialist , commie.  Hope that way of thinking doesn't catch fire.  Like taxing the extremely rich 70%... ?

 

70%?

Ya "Her way of thinking," which is taking other peoples money, has been around for years.

She is not an original, and it is called stealing.

[Foxx]

2 hours ago, sherpa said:

 

70%?

Ya "Her way of thinking," which is taking other peoples money, has been around for years.

She is not an original, and it is called stealing.

ah yes, but they have a license to steal.

[bdutton]

[/dev/null]

3 hours ago, sherpa said:

 

70%?

Ya "Her way of thinking," which is taking other peoples money, has been around for years.

She is not an original, and it is called stealing.

All taxation is theft.  But a 70% rate is nearing serfdom

[ExiledInIllinois]

4 hours ago, sherpa said:

 

70%?

Ya "Her way of thinking," which is taking other peoples money, has been around for years.

She is not an original, and it is called stealing.

It's not stealing if services are provided.

 

Expensive services, but services.

 

LoL...

[/dev/null]

2 minutes ago, ExiledInIllinois said:

It's not stealing if services are provided.

 

Expensive services, but services.

 

LoL...

 

But you are not the recipient of all of the services that you are paying for.  And those who do not pay receive a visit from armed individuals to coerce payment

[ExiledInIllinois]

1 hour ago, /dev/null said:

All taxation is theft.  But a 70% rate is nearing serfdom

 

Come on!... What's better than a doable Socialist?

 

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/why-does-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-get-so-much-attention-from-the-right/amp/

 

 

https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5c3154e9e4b0733528336e49

 

 

"But what does Ocasio-Cortez know about tax policy? “A lot,” said the headline of an opinion piece Saturday in The New York Times by Nobel economics laureate Paul Krugman. A similar tax rate was imposed in the U.S. for 35 years after World War II, which included some of the “most successful periods of economic growth in history,” Krugman wrote.

Tax cuts for the ultra wealthy mean far less to them than cuts for people with modest incomes, Krugman noted. And extra money in millions of hands boosts spending.

“A policy that makes the rich a bit poorer will affect only a handful of people, and will barely affect their life satisfaction, since they will still be able to buy whatever they want,” Krugman wrote"

 

Where there is smoke, there is fire... Oops.

9 minutes ago, /dev/null said:

 

But you are not the recipient of all of the services that you are paying for.  And those who do not pay receive a visit from armed individuals to coerce payment

Sure we are recipients.  Armed individuals.  Which ones? Be thankful their not the Taliban wanting your head rolling down the stairs.

 

Pick your poison.

Edited January 6, 2019 by ExiledInIllinois

[sherpa]

9 minutes ago, ExiledInIllinois said:

It's not stealing if services are provided.

 

Expensive services, but services.

 

LoL...

 

Such a cost for the "services" the victims of such a confiscatory tax policy would likely cause many actions not benefitting our little experiment here, and there is a reason such tax policy has been rejected and changed in the past.

I always find it amusing when past growth rates are connected to old days tax rates, like in the 50's, where they were outrageously high.

To draw such a conclusion is ridiculous.

The world was vastly different in the 50's.

Europe was still trashed for the war. China was still in an ancient economic state, Japan in infancy and still not recovered from the war.

The USSR was taking out all of eastern Europe as a viable competitor, and South Central America had no exportable products except raw materials which took months to get to North America and in the chain.

In short, there was no competition, and the percentages are distorted because of a vastly different base.

 

It makes as much sense to say that our '50's smoking rate of about 45%, or the fact that there were no seatbelts in cars of that era were responsible for the US growth rate in that time.

 

[Koko78]

Krugman's right. 70% tax rate is fine, because absolutely nothing in the world economy has changed since 1945. This will all be fine. Nothing bad would come of it.

 

I mean hell, at one point in the 50's, the tax rate for the top earners was 98%! It worked back then, there's absolutely no reason to think it wouldn't work now. Because the world economy is exactly the same!

[RochesterRob]

2 minutes ago, Koko78 said:

Krugman's right. 70% tax rate is fine, because absolutely nothing in the world economy has changed since 1945. This will all be fine. Nothing bad would come of it.

 

I mean hell, at one point in the 50's, the tax rate for the top earners was 98%! It worked back then, there's absolutely no reason to think it wouldn't work now. Because the world economy is exactly the same!

  Let's mandate tail fins for cars while we are at it.

[Koko78]

1 minute ago, RochesterRob said:

  Let's mandate tail fins for cars while we are at it.

 

Only if sock hops and drug-store soda fountains are brought back into style.

[Foxx]

if you calculate all the taxes you pay today, it is pretty close to over 50% of your income.

[RochesterRob]

1 minute ago, Foxx said:

if you calculate all the taxes you pay today, it is pretty close to over 50% of your income.

  A fair amount of that is user taxes such as the tax on fuel.  Taxes are going to be imperfect and there is a need for services but income taxes are perhaps the most arbitrary way to service the state.

[ExiledInIllinois]

16 minutes ago, sherpa said:

 

Such a cost for the "services" the victims of such a confiscatory tax policy would likely cause many actions not benefitting our little experiment here, and there is a reason such tax policy has been rejected and changed in the past.

I always find it amusing when past growth rates are connected to old days tax rates, like in the 50's, where they were outrageously high.

To draw such a conclusion is ridiculous.

The world was vastly different in the 50's.

Europe was still trashed for the war. China was still in an ancient economic state, Japan in infancy and still not recovered from the war.

The USSR was taking out all of eastern Europe as a viable competitor, and South Central America had no exportable products except raw materials which took months to get to North America and in the chain.

In short, there was no competition, and the percentages are distorted because of a vastly different base.

 

It makes as much sense to say that our '50's smoking rate of about 45%, or the fact that there were no seatbelts in cars of that era were responsible for the US growth rate in that time.

 

Boo hoo Snowflake.  You'll get over it.

[/dev/null]

19 minutes ago, ExiledInIllinois said:

Armed individuals.  Which ones

GAO: IRS Had 4,487 Guns; 5,062,006 Rounds of Ammunition

 

14 minutes ago, Koko78 said:

Krugman's right. 70% tax rate is fine, because absolutely nothing in the world economy has changed since 1945. This will all be fine. Nothing bad would come of it.

 

I mean hell, at one point in the 50's, the tax rate for the top earners was 98%! It worked back then, there's absolutely no reason to think it wouldn't work now. Because the world economy is exactly the same!

I get a chuckle over how the same people that lauded Obama for his remark in the 2012 debates about the 1950s wanting their foreign policy back are the same ones yearning for economic policies of the 1950s

 

12 minutes ago, RochesterRob said:

  Let's mandate tail fins for cars while we are at it.

with suicide doors

[ExiledInIllinois]

7 minutes ago, /dev/null said:

GAO: IRS Had 4,487 Guns; 5,062,006 Rounds of Ammunition

 

I get a chuckle over how the same people that lauded Obama for his remark in the 2012 debates about the 1950s wanting their foreign policy back are the same ones yearning for economic policies of the 1950s

 

with suicide doors

How are we supposed to "Ghost Ride the Whip?"