Posted on 07/28/2018 7:02:11 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Democratic socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez appeared on The Daily Show with Trevor Noah and was asked a simple question that any politician worth his salt would hit out of the park for a home run.
How was she going to pay for the trillions of dollars in spending for all the free stuff she was proposing?
"This is an excellent, excellent question," she replied. "I sat down with a Nobel Prize economist last week – I can't believe I can say that, it's really weird – But one of the things that we saw is, if people pay their fair share, if corporations and the ultra wealthy – for example, as Warren Buffett likes to say, if he pays as much as his secretary paid, 15 percent tax rate, if corporations paid – if we reverse the tax bill, raised our corporate tax rate to 28 percent ... if we do those two things and also close some of those loopholes, that's $2 trillion right there."
Two trillion a year? Over five years? Ten? Just two of her agenda items – taxpayer-funded college tuition for all ($75 billion a year) and Medicare for all ($1.4 trillion a year) would cost more than the GOP tax cuts save over the next year. And that's not including all the other free stuff she wants to hand out.
She also said it would take $3 trillion to $4 trillion and a carbon tax to create a "renewable energy economy" and claimed the Trump tax cut bill prevents the wealthiest Americans from paying "their fair share."
"One of the wide estimates is that it's going to take $3 trillion to $4 trillion to transition us to 100 percent renewable economy," she continued.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
They’d all “love to change the world”
For the worst
Back in her bartending days, she hated tip pooling according to waitresses.
Because, of course, that was HER money...
Some bartenders are more equal than others...
No shutting up about it. She’s as good as elected.
Now where it’ll get really good is when she gets to DC and runs smack into the wall of seniority, etc.
That’ll be very interesting, and probably comical, to watch.
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RE: Who the hell is this Nobel Prize economist?
If I were to hazard a guess, it would be Paul Krugman.
Stupid kid.
[Now where it’ll get really good is when she gets to DC and runs smack into the wall of seniority, etc.]
The first time she has cash waved in front of her face will be the end of her lunacy or shall I say it will be a “hollow” meme from then on.
Think Adam Clayton Powell, Maxine Waters, Cowboy Florida lady, Stupid Texas Lady, etc. All phonies.
Democratic socialist = oligarchy decides what will be voted on, all choices being approved outcomes. Gives the plausible deniability of democracy to the dictating leaders.
Hence the “superdelegates”: party members could vote on candidates, but party leaders decided who would win.
The wealthiest ones are the big cheeses of the hiringest ones. Not smart to go taking pot shots there.
 Between her chin and the top of her hair there's nothing but dust balls, cobwebs, and air! |
“Liberals” aren’t even liberals today. They are profligates.
Collectivists don’t take into account that people will change their plans if a man begins chasing them with a machete. Businesses and wealthy people will move and hide from the tax man, and wealth creation gets strangled when capital is stolen.
Someone needs to sit down with the young lady from Puerto Rico and draw some crayon pictures.
- They are liberal about spending our tax money for nonsensical purposes.
- They are liberal about letting criminals into our country illegally, to commit more crimes here.
- They are liberal about letting criminals out of our prisons prematurely (e.g., Cuomo pardoning felons), to commit more crimes.
In a IQ test between Ocasio-Cortez and a zombie my money is on the zombie
Folks- she and her ilk aren’t going to get nearly enough to pay for socialism by raising legit taxes- so on top of those they plan on implementing “Carbon Taxes”
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez should be credited for coming up with the new economic theory ..... SHALLOW ECONOMICS.
He pulled the trigger too quickly, trying to take advantage of her Democratic Socialist leanings.
Now she seems confused trying to explain her stance on just about anything.
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