Posted on 01/13/2019 8:09:11 AM PST by RoosterRedux
Another week, another feverish contest among Democrats to see who can drag the party faster and farther to the left. The new year is beginning with a blistering pace, with wild and crazy ideas popping up across the country.
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lexandria Ocasio-Cortez, already the left’s congressional rookie of the year, added to her appeal by making a push to tax the richest Americans at 70 percent of their income. She also continues to campaign for a Green New Deal, a set of ideas so big — and vague — that a Vox writer said it aims to do nothing less than “decarbonize the economy and make it fairer and more just.”
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Meanwhile, new California Gov. Gavin Newsom signaled his virtue by promising his state would be a “sanctuary to all who seek it.” He also expanded free health care for illegal immigrants, apparently hoping to attract more of them. Bravo!
The competition, then, was stiff — until New York City Mayor de Blasio blew them all away. He wins first prize by vowing womb-to-tomb handouts and a permanent push for more free stuff.
Appearing well-rested from months of doing nothing, de Blasio lapped the competition with three days of come-and-get-it giveaways. First he vowed free health care for 600,000 New Yorkers, half of them here illegally. Next came a plan to force private employers to give nearly all workers 10 paid vacation days a year.
Then, in his State of the City speech, de Blasio secured victory by making even more promises, such as seizing private apartment buildings from bad landlords, and laying out a vision for a city that would bury capitalism.
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The competition, then, was stiff — until New York City Mayor de Blasio blew them all away. He wins first prize by vowing womb-to-tomb handouts and a permanent push for more free stuff.
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Also his plan to confiscate apartment buildings and giving them to the poor.
This is all good news. The left believe they have won and so they no longer have to pretend to be moderate. Full blown socialism is just around the corner with a chicken in every pot. /s
A nation divided cannot stand...……………..it will be all one or all the other. Abraham Lincoln.
There is going to be a fight, let’s get it started and over with.
Kiss the property tax base to disappear.
Then there’s his evil twin, Cuomo, advocating abortion without consequences up to birth. Talk about a DemonRAT God complex. Behold DemonRATs who want ultimate and supreme power over who lives and who dies! I wonder if Cuomo would have advocated the same policy for his mother to take advantage of?
As Hayek predicted in “Road to Serfdom”
“This is all good news.”
It surely is...all those paying the price are democrats.
Once again proving the farther left a politician moves, the fewer brain cells survive.
Brain cell death comes first...then the move to the left.
3 factions the crazy ,the crazier and the craziest unfortunately not sure who is in whitch
All in full Hutu asap
The only good Commie is a dead Commie.
Lock them in a room with some Knives, Hatchets and Machetes and see who comes out alive. Then kill the survivors.
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