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Ro Khanna Wants to Give Working-Class Households $1 Trillion
The Atlantic ^
| April 28, 2017
| Annie Lowrey
Posted on 04/28/2017 1:12:49 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
We are in serious trouble...
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posted on
04/28/2017 1:16:07 PM PDT
by
mainestategop
(DonÂ’t Let Freedom Slip Away! After America , There is No Place to Go)
To: mainestategop
What is so new and bold about this? I have been hearing about this for years.
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Just when you thought the left couldn’t get any screwier...
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posted on
04/28/2017 1:19:10 PM PDT
by
cld51860
(Volo pro veritas)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
But it would at the very least demonstrate to voters that Democrats had something new and bold to offer them. Spending more money we don't have is "new and bold"? Somebody could make a fortune selling clues to people like this. Even at $100 per vowel would be a good living. At least until the money runs out....
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posted on
04/28/2017 1:19:35 PM PDT
by
Bernard
(The Road To Hell Is Not Paved With Good Results)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
"has become a loud progressive voice on the Hill"
They mean a loudmouth.
To: Bernard
The left’s war on the workers continues.
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posted on
04/28/2017 1:28:24 PM PDT
by
MtnClimber
(For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Good idea if you could only tax rich Democrats and rinos to pay f0or it.
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posted on
04/28/2017 1:28:31 PM PDT
by
amnestynone
(We are asked by people who do not tolerate us to tolerate the intolerable in the name of tolerance.)
To: mainestategop
I bust my but all year and pay thousands in taxes, while the do-littles get $10,000 in earned income credit. Their claim to riches, have babies you can not afford.
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posted on
04/28/2017 1:29:28 PM PDT
by
BushCountry
(thinks he needs a gal whose name doesn't end in ".jpg")
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Exactly the opposite of how to Incease prosperity in society
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posted on
04/28/2017 1:31:20 PM PDT
by
faithhopecharity
("Politicans are not born, they're excreted." -- Marcus Tillius Cicero)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
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posted on
04/28/2017 1:35:07 PM PDT
by
SkyDancer
(You know they invented wheelbarrows to teach FAA inspectors to walk on their hind legs.)
To: MtnClimber
The lefts war on the workers continues.The fact that the vast majority of Americans just want a decent paying job and not a handout seems to escape them utterly.
Providing the macroeconomic conditions for that would require booting out illegal immigrants, ending H1B and other scam visa programs and tariffs on imports. Briefly put, restricting the labor supply but guaranteeing a market for American-made goods, while relying on internal competition and improvements in productivity to control costs.
Of course the wannabee aristocrats among the clerical class would have to give up their cheap nannies and landscapers and the rentier class would see a good portion of it's income redirected to workers.
You know, like that terrible economy we had in '50's and '60's.
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posted on
04/28/2017 1:48:13 PM PDT
by
pierrem15
("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens")
To: 2ndDivisionVet
This is exactly the wrong kind of help that will only make things worse.
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posted on
04/28/2017 2:01:32 PM PDT
by
BitWielder1
(I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
It’s called “you pretend to work, and the Government pretends to pay you”
Sounds kind of Soviet, don’t you think?
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posted on
04/28/2017 2:02:03 PM PDT
by
Afterguard
(Deplorable me!)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
If he wants to hit up his Silicon Valley buddies for a trillion dollars to give out, I have no problem with that. But no one should get one penny more than they pay in of US tax dollars for either refunds or EITC.
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posted on
04/28/2017 2:05:31 PM PDT
by
Waryone
(2 Chronicles 7:14; praise God for His great mercy!)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
He slams on Kentucky and people still living there despite not having an Indian restaurant within two miles, but doesn't mention the fact that for the same $3000 a month you pay to rent an apartment in his district you can buy a 2000 square foot house and a few acres of land in Kentucky.
If the government gives someone $100 and takes back $90, youre at a deficit of $10. But that is $10 in the economy. Its $10 of productive economic activity. Its not like that $10 just disappeared.
You're going to have to knock out a lot of teeth to get the tooth fairy to leave you that $10 under the pillow. Or else it will have to be printed which will give you inflation or borrowed which will squeeze out more productive borrowers. There is no free lunch.
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posted on
04/28/2017 2:06:51 PM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
(a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity - Pres. Eisenhower)
To: KarlInOhio
We pay about $1,000 a month for a 3 bedroom, 2 bath home, so I doubt it’d cost that much in Kentucky.
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posted on
04/28/2017 2:15:17 PM PDT
by
2ndDivisionVet
(You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Silicon Valley, where inventing a new app is seen as the way to change the world, and the most essential skill one must learn to succeed in that world is seen as computer programming - fantasy land for sure.....
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Hey Ro, since you represent Silicon Valley, have you compared the cost of a 2,500 sq. ft. three bedroom home in Sunnyvale, CA, with an identical house in Houston, TX? Here's a clue: The median price per square foot in Sunnyvale is $815, while in Houston it is $158.
Do you grasp the concept of supply and demand? What do you think will happen to the prices of goods and services if you give free money to everyone?
Asshat.
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posted on
04/28/2017 2:41:01 PM PDT
by
Yo-Yo
(Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
So get to writing your checks to pay for it. Just a warning tho, you’ll get yourself up sh*tcreek for writing bad checks in KY.
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posted on
04/28/2017 2:45:17 PM PDT
by
WKUHilltopper
(WKU 2016 Boca Raton Bowl Champions)
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