The super rich at Davos are scared of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's proposal to hike taxes [tr]

CNBC ^ | January 22, 2019 | Hugh Son and Brian Schwartz

[C19fan]

Dr. Frankstein meet your creation. The policies these people have advocated and implemented for 30 years have created AOC and now they are scared. Frankly, if the Davos crowd does not like this proposal that sounds like the best endorsement of the idea I have heard.

[Red Badger]

They should love her!................................

[brownsfan]

“Dr. Frankstein meet your creation. The policies these people have advocated and implemented for 30 years have created AOC and now they are scared.”

The silver lining!

[diverteach]

The Cabal should be more worried about Trump taking down the worlds central banks and seizing their assets.

[gaijin]

Why should they be..?

They’re rich enough to hire the experts who via math wizardry and conjuring up overseas accounts will TOTALLY insulate the rich and clever from the ground-truth effects of the tax.

The truly rich NEVER end up paying such taxes.

[RoseofTexas]

"Dr. Frankstein meet your creation"

....EXACTLY!!!

[taxcontrol]

We ALL should be scared when the government talks about increasing taxes.

[C19fan]

Davos is the one place and time where I wish there was a mass casualty terrorist attack. The world would be a better place if someone deployed a neutron bomb there.

[butlerweave]

If she can steal money from the Rich she’ll be back later for what ever the poor have left but with no Rich there’ll be no jobs for the poor

[coon2000]

Davos is a gathering of a bunch of H1-B loving jerks. Anything they don’t like I probably approve of. H1-B has been like a 70% tax on me and other American high tech workers.

[dowcaet]

“Making the rich pay their fair share.” Remember that slogan from the left. It was all talk, and it was never going to be a policy they would ever implement. Now AOC and the Young Socialist Guns want all that talk to become reality. Oh oh! The RATs created this moron and millions like her. The RAT leadership never thought they would be called to the mat by their own party!

[mewzilla]

This a lie put out for public consumption.

AOC is talking about a confiscatory INCOME tax. The wealthy can and do structure their income to avoid it. The middle class, however, is screwed.

If AOC were serious, she’d be talking about a confiscatory WEALTH tax.

But since she’s not, the wealthy aren’t worried.

[Army Air Corps]

Ping.

[SaxxonWoods]

No they aren’t.

[NobleFree]

rich people will simply figure out ways to shelter their income, and that will be a drag on productivity, Minerd said.

High tax rates for the rich is a bad idea, and that's why. That's the only statement the Davos men can make that could possibly help their cause - and even that's not a strong possibility; the best thing they could do for themselves is probably to STFU.

[SunkenCiv]

They aren't frightened. In before the "rentfree" keywords.

[unixfox]

Funny we don’t hear Hollywood cheering AOC on for increasing THEIR taxes.

Gee, I wonder why that is?

[NobleFree]

If AOC were serious, she’d be talking about a confiscatory WEALTH tax.

Good point.

[OpusatFR]

Give it a rest.

What theater from the left. These men and women own the government. They are so far above criticism, no can touch them.

[Larry Lucido]

"It's scary," Scott Minerd, global chief investment officer for $265 billion Guggenheim Partners

He'll have to put off that next addition to the Guggenheim.