AOC wants 70% tax on wealthy

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  1. Vol Horn 4 Life

    Vol Horn 4 Life Good Bye To All The Rest!

    None of the teachers (and I mean more than a couple) that make these types of comments are white. My daughter says its all day Trump bashing too however some of those teachers are white. There's an overall culture issue in this school with teachers spewing their nonsense instead of just teaching what they are paid to teach.
     
  2. Monahorns

    Monahorns 5,000+ Posts

    Sounds like 2 of the most serious people I've heard of Stalin and Mao.
     
  3. Monahorns

    Monahorns 5,000+ Posts

    I'ts school, but it is at least as much comedians on TV. The young voters of today spent their high school college days during the Obama years watching SNL, John Stewart's Daily Show, and Colbert. These guys made it "cool" to be a communist and hypocritical to be a Conservative.
     
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  4. HornHuskerDad

    HornHuskerDad 5,000+ Posts

    That's an insult to the average child - no child could come up with something that completely idiotic.
     
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  5. iatrogenic

    iatrogenic 2,500+ Posts

    Deez, I'm pretty sure you would invoke your white privilege and demand that she hold it for you whilst you wizzed.
     
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  6. theiioftx

    theiioftx Sponsor Deputy

    Hopefully all of the Dems jump on board the electric socialist airplane. I thought there was no way Trump would get two terms, but these idiots might be guaranteeing it.
     
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  7. bystander

    bystander 10,000+ Posts

    This absolutely makes me sick. That teacher should be removed and barred from teaching ever again and that's not hyperbole from me. It's an attempt to bully a child and is a display of emotional impairment to the degree that is intolerable in the classroom. It's just sick.
     
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  8. Mr. Deez

    Mr. Deez Beer Prophet

    And I stand by that. She wasn't even the hottest one on Charlie's Angels.
     
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  9. Mr. Deez

    Mr. Deez Beer Prophet

    People should complain about it to the principal, school board, state legislature, etc., and if a kid has this crap on video, it needs to be make public.
     
  10. theiioftx

    theiioftx Sponsor Deputy

    Anyone want to bet that the new green deal will also include reparations?
     
  11. UTChE96

    UTChE96 2,500+ Posts

    Didn't see any discussion on Andrew Cuomo's complaining about Trump raising taxes on high-income folks by capping SALT tax deductions. The richer NY citizens have been fleeing for other states with lower state taxes - shocker. Who would have thought liberals would be against taxing the rich.

    Opinion | Andrew Cuomo’s Tax Epiphany

     
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  12. Horns11

    Horns11 10,000+ Posts

    Yeah, I hear those young people love watching libtard things like M*A*S*H, MTM, and All In the Family. Next thing you know, women will want to produce shows!

    Honestly, when was it ever "cool" in mainstream media or entertainment to be conservative? That one time Nixon appeared on Laugh-In? Maybe in regional sections with Hee-Haw or something.
     
  13. nashhorn

    nashhorn 5,000+ Posts

    That’s why I have my grandkids watching old black and white westerns, gun smoke and the like. They enjoy them, but they do roll the eyes at my 60s music, especially the older and mid teens. Oh well.
     
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  14. Mr. Deez

    Mr. Deez Beer Prophet

    Nancy Pelosi actually said one of the most insightful things about it. “The green dream or whatever they call it, nobody knows what it is, but they’re for it, right?”

    Everybody is jumping on board with it, but there's no legislation or even a summary of legislation. There's just a disorganized wish list with no plan for getting there.

    But frankly, I don't blame AOC for not offering more than that. Nobody is requiring her to do so. They're just jumping on board with whatever she says, and of course our disgrace of a media is cheering it on rather than scrutinizing it.
     
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  15. ShAArk92

    ShAArk92 1,000+ Posts

    I am.

    zero income tax. zero corporate tax. Stop playing the shell game.

    market forces on the govt's budget ... and watch regulation become PROPER.

    Tariffs and sales tax should be the Fed's revenue ... and the sales tax should be capped at 10%
     
  16. iatrogenic

    iatrogenic 2,500+ Posts

    We can't quite lower the sales tax to 10% at first, but we could get there over time.
     
  17. ShAArk92

    ShAArk92 1,000+ Posts

    If I read the data correctly ... 19.5 trillion was the GDP in 2017 ... and it's only increased since then.

    that's almost 2 trillion for the Fed just in sales taxes alone. never mind righteous tariffs. Imports were about 2.5 trillion in 2017.

    so even if we use 10% (which is lowball for most tariffs) ... over 2 trillion for the Fed's revenue.

    A 50% cut in spending is VERY doable if we'd demonstrate the discipline to adhere to our own Constitution.

    And the thing is ... if we'd do that ... the GDP would skyrocket beyond even what Trump has ignited ... which would equal MORE sales tax ... and more international trade ... equal more tariff money for the Fed.

    OK ... I've now reached my ballistic apex. Time to fall back to earth. Tax the billionaires ... which means anyone earning more than 50K/year ... because they'll eventually become immoral billionaires, so the government is actually saving us from ourselves.

    Now ... that's better. SMH
     
  18. Vol Horn 4 Life

    Vol Horn 4 Life Good Bye To All The Rest!

    I love the idea, but if a phone is visible during class time it is confiscated. Now I'm wondering if the administration set this culture up without really knowing what they are doing. I'll ask my daughter if she can get away with getting a video of something like this. If she does, I'll post it here first. Trust me, I bet it goes viral and drives site traffic through the roof. :smile1:
     
  19. UTChE96

    UTChE96 2,500+ Posts

    Pelosi seems annoyed with all the attention that AOC has been getting. I see a civil war brewing in the Dem party. The militant socialist movement within the party has been the greatest Christmas present that Trump could have ever asked for. He has been the luckiest President in history in terms of having incompetent enemies.

    Another great Opinion piece from the WSJ on this:

    Opinion | The Socialist That Could
     
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  20. iatrogenic

    iatrogenic 2,500+ Posts

    "Free education, jobs for everyone regardless of talent or effort, and 100% renewable energy all within 10 years."

    I believe her proposed "social solutions" are known as "pre-analytic cognitive acts" in academia. In other words, it's bull____ that won't stand up to analytic scrutiny.

    First, she spews such drivel because she has benefitted from such drivel (elected by fools).

    Why shouldn't we be forced to adopt the musings of a 29 year old bartender with no business or military experience who clearly knows the the systemic, complex economic and legal social processes better than the combined historical experience of millions of people that have adapted to uncertainty and fragmented knowledge of the marketplace.

    By God, if AOC prefers a "solution" to a "problem", we better agree with her. Just ignore the fact that the incremental cost of adopting her solutions is thousands of times more that the costs inherent in the current system. It is only important that SHE PREFERS IT. She is now "the government", and we better get on board or she will take your freedoms away until you succumb to her vast knowledge and greatness.
     
  21. Joe Fan

    Joe Fan 10,000+ Posts

    "I have to oppose Amazon in New York City because we don't have room for all those trees."

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  22. HornHuskerDad

    HornHuskerDad 5,000+ Posts

    UTChE96, you hit that one right on the screws. If the Dems congeal around the far left wackos in their party, they will alienate most of the Independents (who are basically centrists) and drive them to either (a) vote for Trump or (b) stay home for the election. Either way, it's good news for Trump.

    And there might be a bonus - the House might shift back toward the right if the electorate realizes that the far-left nutjobs don't belong in Congress. IMO, the word "socialist" scares most Americans - and the GOP will make maximum use of that in the campaign.
     
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  23. I35

    I35 5,000+ Posts

    Someone earlier said this girl is hot. I just don’t see it.
     
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  24. bystander

    bystander 10,000+ Posts

    Attacking AOC on factual errors or lies might not gain much traction due to the general belief that all politicians lie. She's just another one but the difference is that her populist fervor is effective. I would instead study her core beliefs and high-light those that clearly do not square with a sovereign nation.

    I'd start with this one:

    "But she vowed Thursday to defund ICE completely and claimed Latinos should be exempt from criminal proceedings and immigration laws because they are descended from Mesoamerican cultures that preceded the United States.

    'We are standing on native land,' she claimed, speaking just outside the U.S. Capitol. 'And Latino people are descendants of native people. And we cannot be told, and criminalized, simply because for our identity or our status. Period."

    That is anarchy and the language is clear; every Latino south of the Rio Grande is eligible to come and live in the US. It is clear that she will use her power to take our money to pay these people.

    As an aside, from the same news conference:

    "Fellow congresswoman Ilhan Omar, one of the first two Muslims elected to Congress, quoted Somali poet Warsan Shire in explaining why migrants trek 2,500 miles from Central America to the United States.

    'No one leaves for the mouth of the shark, unless the mouth of the shark is safer than home,' Omar recited."

    So Trump was correct in describing some countries as sh*t-holes. That's the thing with these extremists; their emotional state is so profound they do not attempt to reconcile yesterdays pronouncements with today's. They are describing Mexico and Honduras as being worse than the mouth of a shark (the US). Yet, we cannot describe those countries in any terms except that of respect. I had this discussion with a superior officer here at work and he said, "We can't have the President talking like that." And in one swift motion he dismissed the conversation.

    What is going on here?

    @Seattle Husker - The traction being gained by the extremists is alarming. You've downplayed them as being fringe elements with no real power. AOC has power and has other representatives lining up behind her. They are on a religious mission. It's obvious.
     
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  25. Joe Fan

    Joe Fan 10,000+ Posts

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  26. UTChE96

    UTChE96 2,500+ Posts

    No reason to lie, she is hot. Dumb as a brick but hot.
     
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  27. bystander

    bystander 10,000+ Posts

    I think she is attractive. Her overall look is within my standards on a purely superficial level. I think she's hotter than Kendall Jenner. I like how she slinked around that corner.

    Boy, that sounded romantic.
     
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  28. bystander

    bystander 10,000+ Posts

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  29. Joe Fan

    Joe Fan 10,000+ Posts

    Love of slinking is a sign of high IQ
     
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  30. bystander

    bystander 10,000+ Posts

    Ha ha... can I put that on my resume and you down as a reference?
     
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