Posted on 01/22/2019 11:09:47 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez(D-N.Y.) and her Republican critics have both called her proposal to dramatically increase America's highest tax rate "radical" but a new poll released Tuesday indicates that a majority of Americans agrees with the idea.
In the latest The Hill-HarrisX survey conducted Jan. 12 and 13 after the newly elected congresswoman called for the U.S. to raise its highest tax rate to 70 percent a sizable majority of registered voters, 59 percent, supports the concept.
Ocasio-Cortez has not introduced any legislation to enact the concept but the survey shows a broad cross-section of Americans supports it, at least presently.
Women support the idea by a 62-38 percent margin. A majority of men back it as well, 55 percent to 45 percent. The proposal is popular in all regions of the country with a majority of Southerners backing it by a 57 to 43 percent margin. Rural voters back it as well, 56 percent to 44 percent.
Increasing the highest tax bracket to 70 percent garners a surprising amount of support among Republican voters. In the Hill-HarrisX poll, 45 percent of GOP voters say they favor it while 55 percent are opposed to it.
Independent voters who were contacted backed the tax idea by a 60 to 40 percent margin while Democratic ones favored it, 71 percent to 29 percent.
Ocasio-Cortez is among a group of progressive legislators which includes Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) who have called for increasing federal income tax rates on wealthier Americans. The New York Democrat kicked off a debate within her party in a Jan. 6 interview with "60 Minutes" during which she said she would support setting the highest tax, which she said would kick in at individuals 10 millionth dollar of income, at 70 percent.
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Well I mean everyone hates the rich and wants free stuff right? So its not that hard to get the lemmings fired up to be honest.
I know of no time that Reagan said this.
Can you give me a source?
Waiting on Milano to chime in before I know what to think. /sarc
The Billionaires’ club does not care what the tax rate is as long as they have enough money to preach to the public. It will trade wealth for power every time.
Private wealth is wildly disproportionate and to be feared. Not as much as the government however.
There is no way to confiscate the wealth of the Super Rich short of a global tax authority.
Does the sHill ever publish anything worthy of reading?
What are the cross tab So??
Is this as accurate as the president Hillary polls?
Two quotes to consider from Vladimir Lenin:
(1) The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of high taxation and inflation.
(2) The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency.
They have been working really hard for years to “debauch the currency”. That is why the Rats don’t bat an eye to deficit spend in a big way. High taxation is the road to communism . . . in double-time.
Which means it is ridiculous to put very high tax rates in place, which has been my point. It hurts regular folks a whole lot more than rich folks.
Your comment makes me think of game shows like “The Price is Right” and others of that nature. Sure, everybody likes to watch people win cars or trips to nice places or snazzy new furniture and other things for free and they will cheer and go crazy with Drew Carey or Steve Harvey or Pat Sajak or (when I was growing up) Bob Barker or Richard Dawson and many others from years past.
However, you can google “game show contestant stories” or something similar and learn the reality. Most of the time, you don’t get the fancy prizes unless you explicitly follow the producers’ instructions, pay the (likely) very pricey taxes as the cash and other goodies are taxable income, and other hoops to jump through. But it certainly is not presented in that manner on TV, isn’t it? And this is what the Dems and others are trying to do in this manner regarding taxes and “free” stuff.
The 16th Amendment was marketed the same way, "this will only increase what the very rich pay, it won't change anything for average folks". That's a promise kept, right?
Flat tax 10 to 15 percent... which means everybody has skin in the game. Everybody. And it simplifies this cancerous tax industry which rises Medusa like on a regular basis.
If you have nothing then you pay 15% of nothing. I don’t buy that argument that we have to have taxes and the poor have to be excluded. The poor do not have to be excluded, they have to have some skin in the game so that they really have a clear understanding of what it’s like to participate.
If this 70% BS starts getting traction then the flat tax argument needs to be raised and raised quickly before the engine that drives our economy gets cut off at the knees.
Everybody participates must dominate the discussion over the contentious “let’s just tax some people more.” This is the only way to promote inclusion from everybody especially the dissenting (and loud) gimme freebie people.
Here was the Reagan said in his own words.
“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.”
This a 1 minute clip
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDouNtnR_IA
Hell yea!. The rich can afford it.
Raise the top tax rate to “Infinity %”! Come on AOC!
I assume they will take that Windfall and pay off the National Debt before they institute any additional Government Programs.
Don’t tax you, don’t tax me, tax that fellow behind the tree.
BULLSHIT
“Soaking the rich” never impacts those who are already rich. It only affects those who ASPIRE to become one of the “rich”.
“Trickle down” really is a thing. The less there is to “trickle down”, the more the lower levels are negatively affected.
If you want the sparrows to not starve, you have to feed the horses. This bit of folk wisdom has been somehow lost on recent generations.
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