De Blasio: Yes, Democrats Are For 70 % Tax Rates, Free College, Money Is in the ‘Wrong Hands’

Breitbart ^ | 26 Jun 2019 | PAM KEY

[detective]

Wednesday on MSNBC’s Democratic Candidates’ Debate, 2020 hopeful Mayor of New York City Bill de Blasio said the Democratic Party has to fix income inequality with a “70% tax rate on the wealthy” and free college for young people.

De Blasio said, “We have been addressing income inequality in New York City by raising wages by raising benefits and putting money back in the hands of the people with $15 minimum wage, paid sick days, pre-k for all. Things that are making a difference in people’s lives. What we are hearing in the first round is that battle for the heart and soul of our party. I want to make it clear. This is supposed to be the party of working people. Yes, we are supposed to be for 70% tax rate on the wealthy. Yes, we are supposed for free college, free public college for young people.We are supposed to break up big corporations when they are not serving our democracy.”

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

We are supposed to break up big corporations when they are not serving our democracy ^{the government} .

This is pure fascism by definition.

Agreed. My edit of the original quote reflects the fact that socialists of all stripes, including fascists talk about government all the time - but usually under a euphemism such as “society” or “public” or, in this case, “our democracy.”

SOME writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have different origins.

Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness;

the former promotes our happiness POSITIVELY by uniting our affections, the latter NEGATIVELY by restraining our vices.

The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions.

The first is a patron, the last a punisher.

Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one . . .
For were the impulses of conscience clear, uniform and irresistibly obeyed, man would need no other lawgiver; but that not being the case, he finds it necessary to surrender up a part of his property to furnish means for the protection of the rest . . . — Thomas Paine, Common Sense (1776)

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

De Blasio: Yes, Democrats Are For 70 % Tax Rates, Free College ^stagflation, Money Is in the ‘Wrong Hands’ ^{trust no one else, just me.}

[detective]

“Government can’t produce wealth, sustain wealth, or even redistribute wealth. It can only destroy wealth—or—stay out of the way and let the productive segments of our free-market economy produce it.”

Excellent post. Excellent point.

Is that a quote or is it original?

[Jim Robinson]

I think the idea is based on something I heard Thomas Sowell say in an interview.

[Libloather]

Didn’t his so-called wife just score $8 million?

[Osage Orange]

Not yet....

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks detective.

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