Posted on 01/19/2019 11:39:38 AM PST by GuavaCheesePuff
Ultimately, finding an optimal tax rate for the super-rich is a moral and political issue as much as an economic one.
Last week, when 60 Minutes aired an interview with newly sworn-in Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the freshman New York congressperson caused an uproar with what, by Washington standards, seemed a rather immodest proposal. Asked whether an expansion of public investment in green technologies would require raising taxes, she cited history.
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bert, why do you assume that I’ve “failed to achieve”? I’m bringing up factors that have destroyed the middle class. We cannot have a vibrant economy and our freedoms without one.
It is time to abolish the demo_ratic party.
JoMa
NO!! Really? Then they will just have to start up the firing squads until the revenue goes above 20% No exceptions or allowances. Just do it!
I guess she’d be in some kind of fetish sicko stuff.
You are on to something.
Read James 4:1.
bttt
Sounds very “Lenin” like to me. Which public square will the executions be held?
Remember that stupid song from the ‘60s?
Tax the rich
Feed the poor
‘Til there are no
Rich no more
At which point the poor can starve! The chorus says, “I’d love to change the world, but I don’t know what to do.” No ****, Sherlock.
You’re correct, but the point I was trying to make was that by winning the lottery you would think you are set for life- but when the government TAXES IT ALL as income for that year, you lose most of it.
If you think you were going to take $100,000 for the next ten years and budget it wisely, you can’t - you’re back to work the next year... as if it never happened.
Alexa Cortez is stealing your retirement & healthcare.
Alexa Cortez hurts children.
There was an interesting study years ago, which I think was rather accurate regarding jealousy. You know how older children, not older than seven, are physically aggressive to new born siblings? Parents recognize it as jealousy, which is accurate but they always say “oh, he loves his sister/brother, just adjusting”. The truth is the older child is enflamed with jealousy and when they pinch, poke or hurt the newborn, they mean it, they hate that siblings guts and want it to go away. In many instances they would literally kill it to make it go away.
“Why do you label everyone who doesn’t agree with an economic system where the rich keep getting richer and everyone else gets further in debt a “leftist”? “
Because only an idiot left would believe that crap you just posted. The rich don’t keep getting richer and the poor poorer.
You have to be a real ignorant and gullible idiot to believe that crap.
Plank #3 of the Communist Manifesto: Abolition of All Rights of Inheritance.
We also need to end professional politicians.
Most (maybe a majority) of people start out lives with college debt, an auto loan, a mortgage, and then they charge stuff and vacations to their credit card. The horrible reality is that a very large percentage of the population won't get through their senior years with assets, and won't be leaving anything to their children. So how do younger generations get out of debt and prepare for their futures? What happens to the economy when they retire? "let them eat cake"?
“Have you seen any statistics about how much debt most people have and how little they’ve saved? Most (maybe a majority) of people start out lives with college debt, an auto loan, a mortgage, and then they charge stuff and vacations to their credit card. “
Don’t go blaming the system for their greed to spend beyond their means. The liberals give people the idea that no matter what they’ll be taken care of.
In no way are people spending on necessities. They buy junk, vacations, and more junk. Your own statement states that.
So don’t go touting something you really know nothing about.
There are plenty of people who retire just fine. They’re the ones who don’t live beyond their means and save and invest for their future.
You really gotta stop listening to liberal propaganda.
IMO, we should understand that the USA is a long way from a Laissez-faire economic system. The basic problem is an abandoned Constitution, socialism lite, and crony capitalism.
The one entity most responsible for economic inequality is the government - at all levels, but particularly the federal.
What they really wnat is a flat rate of 150 percent.
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