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Ocasio-Cortez on Millennials: ‘We’re Like the World Is Going to End in 12 Years [trunc]
Grabien News ^ | 22 | By Tom Elliott

Posted on 01/22/2019 5:53:30 AM PST by DCBryan1

he world is going to end in 12 years unless the government takes action, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) said Monday at a Martin Luther King forum in New York City.

Here’s an excerpt from her interview with Ta-Nehisi Coates:

“And I think the part of it that is generational is that millennials and people, in Gen Z, and all these folks that come after us are looking up and we’re like, the world is gonna end in 12 years if we don’t address climate change. You’re biggest issue, your biggest issue is how are going to pay for it? — and like this is the war, this is our World War II. And I think for younger people looking at this are more like, how are we saying let’s take it easy when 3,000 Americans died last year, how are we saying let’s take it easy when the end person died from our cruel and unjust criminal justice system?

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; US: New York; US: Vermont
KEYWORDS: anotheraocthread; aoc; berniesanders; commie; communist; cortez; globalwarminghoax; newyork; ocasiocortez; rentfree; rentfreeonfr; socialist; vermont
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To: DCBryan1
The good news is, if we sacrifice more freedoms and finance her wet-dream socialist programs she knows how to stop it! {snort}

I finally had the chance to run a few numbers the other day. Let's talk about her grand plans. For someone who allegedly has an economics degree from an Ivy League school, she really is not very good with numbers. At all.

She wants to put in place a 70% marginal tax rate to fund her programs. Just one of them, the green initiative, is estimated to cost something like 8 to 10 trillion dollars over the first couple of years. Ok, let's look at the 70% rate.

She proposes that on people earning over 10 million a year. I was able to find that people earning over 10 million represent 0.004% of the US population. Ok, given about 327 million people, that gives us roughly 13080 top earners. How much do they actually make? I was able to find that the top 400 earners in the US averaged 335 million each in income. So those very top 400 represent 3% of our top 13080. Assuming roughly linear distribution here - because we are way out on the far right end of the bell curve locally I'm going with the assumption... That means we can extrapolate that the average across our 13080 is 165 million per year.

Great, let's tax them at 70%! Not so fast. They are already paying a 37% marginal rate in that bracket. So we're really only talking about an increase of 33% extra tax revenue. That is still an impressive 712 billion dollars, but far short of the funding needed for just one of Ocasio-Cortez's programs, let alone the double-digit trillions needed for all of them. Worse, in addition to the other assumptions in this plan, this assumes that these 13000 people, with access to the best lawyers and accountants in the world, would not find some way of shielding even more of their income. That they would willingly give up 1/3 of their remaining income to additional taxes. Right. Just like Pelosi's fantasy about criminals surrendering their weapons when they realize their victims are unarmed.

Run the numbers people, AOC's plans make no damn sense not just from a societal viewpoint, by the numbers they simply cannot ever work, period.

41 posted on 01/22/2019 6:31:11 AM PST by ThunderSleeps ( Be ready!)
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To: chris37
Luckily we have someone as smart and as capable of table dancing as Occasional C0rtex to save us!

The brilliance of this woman from NY is simple amazing!!







AOC is a true acolyte follower of the Left's Lord and Savior with his clueless reference to America's 57 state and Marine Corpse Men.
42 posted on 01/22/2019 6:31:30 AM PST by Cheerio ( #44, the UNKNOWN Manchurian Candidate)
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To: txrefugee


"OMG, WHAT?  Oh, wait.  You said, bartender.
Not Bart-ender.  Never Mind."

43 posted on 01/22/2019 6:32:36 AM PST by sparklite2 (Don't mind me. I'm just a contrarian.)
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To: jetson

That would be tragic.

Oh, the horror!


44 posted on 01/22/2019 6:33:08 AM PST by chris37 (No wall? No vote.)
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To: central_va

We’ve already past it.


45 posted on 01/22/2019 6:34:04 AM PST by VTenigma (The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
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To: RooRoobird20
Occasional Cortex: Stupid, stupid jack@ss with an ugly jack@ss face and teeth.

I have seen posters on FR post about how glamours this creature is!!! Just like Huma Aberdeen, I guess if you like that sort of stuff. Not for me - I agree with your comment.
46 posted on 01/22/2019 6:35:02 AM PST by Cheerio ( #44, the UNKNOWN Manchurian Candidate)
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To: hal ogen

The collective IQ of her constituents is approaching room temp. They elected her based on race to gather them as much free stuff as possible, nothing more.


47 posted on 01/22/2019 6:36:53 AM PST by VTenigma (The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
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To: DCBryan1

Yesterday in her hometown of New York city it was 8 degrees.


48 posted on 01/22/2019 6:37:57 AM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary walks free, equal justice under the law will never exist in the USA)
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To: hal ogen

I use to live in her district 25 years ago and back then I didn’t know ANYBODY who would have elected an idiot like her. Today though, it’s completely overrun by illegals, it’s got the highest concentration of illegals in New York city if not the country, so....do the math. They are allowing them to vote which is why besides the climate change scam, she feels her #1 priority is to illegals.


49 posted on 01/22/2019 6:40:51 AM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary walks free, equal justice under the law will never exist in the USA)
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To: Cheerio

I had a real laugh to start the day. Thank you. None of these representations are far fetched.


50 posted on 01/22/2019 6:41:26 AM PST by mountainfolk
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To: chris37

She is absofreakinlutely incoherent!! She makes Animal Houses’s Blutarsky look like a combination Plato, Augustine, Newton, and Einstein.


51 posted on 01/22/2019 6:44:40 AM PST by xkaydet65
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To: DCBryan1
Well, she's correct in my case.

In 12 years, I'll be 83 and probably 6 feet under by then. So my world will probably end. :-)

Seriously, how many times have we heard this "the world is going to end in 10 years if we don't do something about climate change RIGHT NOW" bullish*t? Too many times to count. And yet nothing ever happens.

Al Gore said New York City would be under 20 feet of water by now (or a decade ago) but it still is high and dry. Al's in hiding and only comes out when it's hotter than hell.

And yet these climate change hoaxers, instead of rethinking preposterous positions and maybe thinking that they could be wrong, they just double down on their claims of the earth ending within 10 (12) years and nobody calls them out on their claims at all.

This is the modern day version of the shepherd kid who kept crying wolf when there was none.

These loonie Leftists have been claiming the end of the world for decades now and yet here we sit today with none their claims coming true. Their warnings are not even credible anymore.

Enough already.

52 posted on 01/22/2019 6:45:30 AM PST by HotHunt (Reagan was good but TRUMP IS GREAT!)
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To: DCBryan1

Never trust anyone with a hyphen in their name.


53 posted on 01/22/2019 6:46:33 AM PST by bk1000 (I stand with Trump)
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To: DCBryan1

And I feel fine.


54 posted on 01/22/2019 6:47:40 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: G Larry

Actually, it’s very sad. This is 2018 America, and she’s a university graduate.


55 posted on 01/22/2019 6:49:24 AM PST by neverevergiveup
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To: DCBryan1
She’s right, from what Pelosi and Gore have said, well, the world should have ended years ago, by their views.
56 posted on 01/22/2019 6:55:51 AM PST by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: neverevergiveup
She's a bar maid who learned to get better tips by telling people what they want to hear.

Drunk customers wouldn't argue with her pretty smile.

57 posted on 01/22/2019 6:58:19 AM PST by G Larry (There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
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To: chris37

Typical commie response, not what can I do to change the problem, no, it is what can I do to force someone to pay to change the problem (if one actually existed in the first place). She is nothing but an over educational certificated bar maid. We have one here in our small town too, a lefty former bartender is the town mayor. Rather than minding the city, he goes off on issues like banning plastic bags and protecting the whales from off shore seismic testing. Of course, there are former residents from the North East who moved here who reelect this jerk. I’ve said many times before here whenever I encounter one of these nitwits the first thing they normally say about things here is: gee, we did not do this where I came from. My normal retort is if it is so good there, why are you here and why not go back. Crickets and end of discussion.


58 posted on 01/22/2019 6:58:22 AM PST by Mouton (The media is the enemy of the people.)
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To: woodbutcher1963

I am actually surprised some former boyfriend has not posted pictures of her in compromising situations.


Occasionally Coherent has stated that she has a “partner.”

Do we know if it is a boy?


59 posted on 01/22/2019 7:01:44 AM PST by AFret.
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To: central_va
When will we reach peak AOC?

When she's sitting in the White House. She is a reflection of Millenial values, not their cause. And she is their rock star. 80+% of them believe that climate change is going to cut short their lives.

Once you and I head to that great Tea Party in the Sky this country is SOOOOOO SCROOOOOOOD.


60 posted on 01/22/2019 7:05:36 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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