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Ocasio-Cortez: We Have To Break "The Mistaken Idea" That Taxes Pay For All Spending
RCP Video ^ | 2-8-2019 | Ian Schwartz

Posted on 02/08/2019 10:39:28 AM PST by Sir Napsalot

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To: teevolt

Taxes are used to punish people, strictly speaking, they are not necessary.


81 posted on 02/08/2019 12:45:53 PM PST by Freedom4US
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To: LibWhacker

How could Americans vote for someone. So. Damned. Ignorant?


Very few did in spite of what the media would have everyone think.

Here is an article about her election...She won with a very small voter turnout :(

https://nypost.com/2018/06/28/most-voters-stayed-home-for-stunning-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-win/

And here are demographics about her district:
https://www.census.gov/mycd/?st=36&cd=14


82 posted on 02/08/2019 1:02:50 PM PST by Freedom56v2 (#KATE'SWALL Build it Now)
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To: Sir Napsalot

All government money comes in one of a few forms.

Taxes - confiscated from workers
FEES - confiscated from workers
FINES - confiscated from workers

I don’t know of ANYTHING that the government does that is actually income NOT from taxpayers.


83 posted on 02/08/2019 2:22:09 PM PST by ro_dreaming (Chesterton, 'Christianity has not been tried and found wanting. It's been found hard and not tried')
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To: Freedom4US

I’ve predicted for years that the only viable way out of debt is hyperinflation. They will hyper inflate the dollar so that it takes a billion dollars to buy a loaf of bread and pay off the debt with worthless currency.


84 posted on 02/08/2019 2:40:14 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Being woke means you can be nasty and hateful and use and racist slurs but feel morally superior.)
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To: Sir Napsalot

I think she is advocating a Balanced Budget Amendment.


85 posted on 02/08/2019 2:43:02 PM PST by depressed in 06 (60 in '20.)
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To: DesertRhino
Dumbass. Standing in a bucket, insisting she can pick it up by the handle.

Love that one....LOL

86 posted on 02/08/2019 2:55:38 PM PST by Irish Eyes
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Thing is, Governments don’t “get out” of debt, they roll over the existing debt, and keep borrowing. What makes the current situation more dangerous as I understand it, during the Clinton years most of the debt was rolled over into much shorter duration securities. Consequently the entire debt rolls over about every four years and is very sensitive to interest rate spikes. Just a point or two to the high side and it all blows up. I’ve heard it put that way, they can save the dollar, or save the markets, though not both.

The next thing in line are all the municipal and state pensions, virtually all are completely under-funded. They will demand to be bailed out.

Keeping in mind the government has to make interest payments, they cannot renege on foreign creditors, even during the Civil War they never missed any bond payments, and when the “triage” as it were happens, Americans will get stiffed, you can bank on that. Social Security, everything will be on the chopping block. If a government fails to make interest payments due, then they don’t get to borrow more money, at least not at prevailing interest rates. All the jiggery-pokery we’ve seen in failed states and their currencies in recent years stems in large part because the American dollar enjoys for many years now “reserve currency” status, and the failed states currency did not.


87 posted on 02/08/2019 3:04:53 PM PST by Freedom4US
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To: Sir Napsalot

She’s a dim witted, rabid COMMUNIST NUT!


88 posted on 02/08/2019 3:44:14 PM PST by Jmouse007 (Lord God Almighty, deliver us from this evil in the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, amen.)
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To: Sir Napsalot

I’m now more than ever convinced that she’s a Soros created robot.

They just couldn’t get the teeth right...

(Everything she says is clearly fed to her by her handlers.)


89 posted on 02/08/2019 4:53:33 PM PST by nicollo (I said no!)
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To: Sir Napsalot

Conclusion: spending is way out of control


90 posted on 02/08/2019 8:24:12 PM PST by Crucial
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To: klb99

Yes.

Joe was right.


91 posted on 02/08/2019 10:41:34 PM PST by NoCmpromiz (John 14:6 is a non-pluralistic comment.)
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To: Sir Napsalot

So.... what’s her other secret source of money? Who else wants to fund her magical trains across the oceans and such? Hey, maybe she has found that pot of gold.


92 posted on 02/08/2019 10:43:15 PM PST by Yaelle
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To: oldasrocks

Please, someone convince her that if she would first go and straighten out Venezuela we would follow her plans without question.


This. Good one.


93 posted on 02/08/2019 10:48:29 PM PST by Yaelle
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To: Sir Napsalot

For every $1 invested in infrastructure, we get $6 back.
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Damn, let’s SPEND $10 BILLION ON THE WALL and we’ll GET $60 BILLION BACK! ;-


94 posted on 02/09/2019 4:00:57 AM PST by House Atreides (Boycott the NFL 100% — PERMANENT)
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To: Sir Napsalot

She came from money, never had to pay for anything herself, with her $3000 designer outfits. Check your privilege, see you next Tuesday.


95 posted on 02/09/2019 7:01:18 AM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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