Posted on 01/07/2019 6:27:52 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is ready to tax the rich to make her Green New Deal a reality.
“People are going to have to start paying their fair share in taxes,” the recently elected New York Democrat told TV show “60 Minutes” in an interview set to air Sunday.
Speaking of prior decades’ taxation rates in the country, Ocasio-Cortez added, “Once you get to the tippy tops, on your 10 millionth dollar, sometimes you see tax rates as high as 60 or 70 percent.”
It shouldn’t be a surprise that the avowed “democratic socialist” went with the predictable “tax the rich” formula in order to pay for a massive government program to combat climate change.
But it would hardly be good news for most Americans if Ocasio-Cortez got her way.
In fact, such a scheme would mean that her constituents in New York City would pay a max income tax rate of 82.6 percent, as Americans for Tax Reform was quick to point out. Perhaps New Yorkers deserve what they voted for, but does the country?
Interest in the Green New Deal
While Democratic House leadership has so far balked at the Green New Deal, it enjoys strong support from over 40 members of Congress, per The Daily Caller.
A poll released in December also shows Americans might be more inclined than you’d think to support the plan. The poll, from the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication and the George Mason University Center for Climate Change Communication, showed that 8 out of 10 Americans hadn’t heard about it.
But when asked if they would support it—albeit with a very favorable description of the deal that didn’t discuss higher taxes, for instance—81 percent of registered voters said they would back it.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailysignal.com ...
Q1: "Do you support them Democrat plan to save the world?"
A1: "You bet I do!"
Q2: "Do you support the Democrat plan to confiscate your entire paycheck and have them decide how much to rebate to you?"
A2: "Uhhh, wha???"
All that Obama green crap was merely the warm up for the main act about to start.
The Trojan Horse wasn’t really a horse. The Green Deal isn’t disguised as anything but what it is ... socialism.
The funny part is that she thinks that she won’t be affected by the socialism she wants to inflict on all us.
Bartender to congress to bartender.
L8r
Actually, the Green New Deal is a TrojanHorse for totalitarianism and tyranny
You will have to read it to find out what’s in it, a rope around our necks again. low income, non tax paying entitlement army applaud
Sure is alot of silence from athletes & entertainment people over her 70% or more tax scheme.
Yes, and they now have so many Millenials petrified over the belief that the planet will die before they’re 50 that they might very well get away with this.
Make ‘em feel guilty if they try to can it, and helpless if they can’t. < sac > (Alinsky via Cortez)
Her ears are like Obama’s, as well as the degree of teeth baring. Hmmm.
It’s not a Trojan Horse. The Trojan Horse was a trick, they didn’t know troops were inside.
This is far too blatant, most it doesn’t even have anything to do with the environment.
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