Posted on 10/10/2019 6:43:25 AM PDT by Renkluaf
ast week we warned readers that if President Donald Trump is removed from office before the 2020 elections, they should say hello to President Elizabeth Warren. This week we feel the need to warn remind readers just how damaging a Warren administration would be.
Unlike Sen. Bernie Sanders and Eugene Debs, Warren is not an admitted socialist. But she is a greater threat than Debs ever was because she has a chance. In five runs for the White House, Debs never had more than 6% of the popular vote. Warren, however, now leads all Democrats in the RealClearPolitics average of polls, having passed the fading Joe Biden for the top spot.
She will also have the legacy media 100% behind her, an advantage not only in the election but it ramming policies through Congress. She could not possibly propose anything so radical that the Democrats with keyboards, cameras, and microphones would question it.
Though Sanders has the socialist history and the credentials, Warren, not so long ago a Republican, is more closely aligned to Marxism than the Vermont senator. For evidence, we need go back no further than last year, when she released her Accountable Capitalism Act. Under this law, companies with more than $1 billion in annual revenue would have to “obtain a federal charter from a newly formed Office of United States Corporations at the Department of Commerce.” This Washington-issued permission slip “obligates company directors to consider the interests of all corporate stakeholders – including employees, customers, shareholders, and the communities in which the company operates.”
It would, as well, prohibit businesses from making political donations without approval from 75% of their directors and shareholders, and requires them to “ensure that no fewer than 40% of its directors are selected by the corporation’s employees.”
Maybe Karl Marx himself could explain the benefits of those limitations because we just don’t see them. However, we do see a system in which Washington takes over the means of production.
“What she really wants,” says Reason’s Scott Shackford, “is to put the federal government in a position of evaluating and approving how companies grow. She would substitute the decisions of people who run businesses with the prejudices and preferences of people who think like she does. And she wants to use the courts to enforce her ideas of how corporations should be managed.”
Warren claims to be a “capitalist to my bones” — not a bad example of Lenin’s call to make use of deceit, making “all necessary practical compromises, to maneuver, to make agreements, zig-zags, retreats and so on” for the sake of political objectives. But her claim is further undermined by her economic plan, which we pointed out not long ago “is rife with massive self-imposed shocks that would destroy one entire industry, throw millions out of work, double the size of the federal government, raise taxes to unheard-of levels, and give Washington effective control over corporate decision-making.”
The cost of a Warren White House would be 2.4 million people out of work because she would gleefully kill the health insurance industry, incinerating an enormous amount of wealth in the process; the loss of another 1.3 million jobs due to a $15 minimum wage; and the elimination of 5 million more through the Green New Deal, a despicable backdoor plan to take over the economy and limit personal liberty that she’s thrown her support behind.
Now we come to Warren’s wealth tax, a Sanders-like scheme that would impose a 2% annual tax on individuals with more than $50 million in wealth and a 3% tax on those worth more than $1 billion, seizing more than $3 trillion in private property over a decade. She doesn’t care that most of the European nations that enacted wealth taxes repealed them — nine of the 12 since 1990 — because they were unworkable; that a wealth tax encourages avoidance, evasion, and capital flight; that it is “toxic,” and will “put a bullseye on those” too poor to be taxed under the plan. Warren simply wishes to dictate the wealthy pay their “fair share.” Her tyrannical urges don’t lie far below the surface.
Finally, we bring up the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Warren is its “intellectual godmother.” She designed it, said economist Peter J. Ferrara, “so that it constitutes a thorough violation of the Constitution’s separation of powers doctrine, not answerable to the president, the Congress, or even another so-called independent agency.” It eventually became an out-of-control, abusive agency, actively harming consumers.
Of all the Democratic presidential candidates, Warren is the most policy-oriented. She holds detailed positions on a host of issues, which means she’s serious about implementing them. She is a stiff-necked academic living in an insulated world of intellectual abstraction who only pretends to empathize with regular folks. Warren would be such a destructive force that the days of Barack Obama in the White House would seem in comparison to be golden.
Harvard Law School accepts and preens that she
is an American Indian.
HLS and Warren are complete utterly
KNOWINGLY-wrong liars.
Of all the Democratic presidential candidates, Warren is the most policy-oriented. She holds detailed positions on a host of issues, which means she’s serious about implementing them. She is a stiff-necked academic living in an insulated world of intellectual abstraction who only pretends to empathize with regular folks. Warren would be such a destructive force that the days of Barack Obama in the White House would seem in comparison to be golden.
A perfect example of an over educated ignoramus.
So she is technically a fascist when it comes to companies.
Agreed. They underestimate the number of Americans who hold bitter resentments against some bank/insurance company/former employer whom they feel SCROOOOOOD them one way or another.
Warren is going to promise to hold televised public floggings of these people, live from Yankee Stadium. Do not underestimate the appeal this will have with millions of voters.
People like Warren used to be a third party candidate.
I hope and pray that the democrat party becomes that third party.
The Commies have always been rough on the academics. So there's that.
Well-they ARE the same clowns who said “O” is American and attended their school
She's an ignoranus. Both ignorant and an anus...
I just heard from someone who believes that PDJT is our last President. Like Dems & Antifas are about to take over (keep your weather eye on Minneapolis today Thursday, BTW).
I reminded him of an election year I saw as a young adult in 1968. In terms of “America divided”, that year makes 2019 look like toddlers squabbling in the sandbox.
The Dem field in 1968 was statesmanlike compared to today, with politicians powerful enough to dissuade the power hungry Lyndon Johnson from running for a second term.
You are correct, today’s Dem party already looks and acts like a third party; the House looks like all the radical backbenchers in UK House of Commons marched in & took over, shouting down the opposition and demanding the overthrowal of the head of state.
Excellent article except that it’s not a wealth tax, it’s confiscation.
Oh, we'll have more Presidents. It's just that there's a good shot that all future elections will be de facto one-party elections.
Dunno.
Once upon a time, there was a guy named Huey Long who might have given her, or even Hillary!, a run for their money.
I would tend to agree, had she any chance of winning the presidency. Alas she has no such chance.
You made me laugh, in spite of the fact that what is happening is very serious.
I don’t want to be like the Brits, as much as I love them.
We are Americans and I know PDJT is the one who promises to Make America Great Again and Keep American Great and I think he will do it.
Incidentally, I have records all set on OANN for tonight, from 4PM to 11PM. I am really looking forward to this one.
Just remember this. If the gov’t is going to tax wealth how do they know who to tax? Answer: a new wealth system of reporting. If the guy worth $50M pays 2% what about the guy with $47M? He pays nothing, right? How do they know the difference. You have to file a personal accounting every year. Don’t think it will stop at those levels either. Sooner or later they will demand to know everyone’s assets, not just the $50M and up. And when 2% of $50M doesn’t raise enough? Let’s make it $20M, and then $5M, and so on.
“It’s just that there’s a good shot that all future elections will be de facto one-party elections.”
That will require the electoral votes of NY, CA, TX (!) and one other blue state (IL?) to outnumber those of all other states, or that the Constitution is amended to abolish the Electoral College, the Dem’s ultimate goal.
Pretty tall order, IMO.
‘Warren is going to promise to hold televised public floggings of these people, live from Yankee Stadium.’
sounds like something from a dystopian Stephen King, AKA Richard Bachman, novel...
She has been tenured at universities FOUR times
That’s incredible
She is a pure product of preference
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