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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) is floating an income tax rate as high as 60 to 70 percent on the highest-earning Americans to combat carbon emissions.
Speaking with Anderson Cooper in a “60 Minutes” interview scheduled to air Sunday, Ocasio-Cortez said a dramatic increase in taxes could support her “Green New Deal” goal of eliminating the use of fossil fuels within 12 years — a goal she acknowledges is ambitious.
Ocasio-Cortez floats 70 percent tax on the super wealthy to fund Green New Deal
Underfunded Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid; homeless people starving in droves on the streets of this country's wealthiest cities; and a million other real problems and this useless sack of bones wants to take what would amount to one of the most expansive and progressive wealth taxes ever and use it to buy Teslas and Priuses for her yuppie peers.
Where's the liberalism, here? Where is the genuine caring about the human condition and how it can be improved?
Instead, with her focus on money-pit pet projects and buzzwording Ocasio-Cortez looks more and more like just another swamp creature.
Pitiful...
Ocasio-Cortez floats 70 percent tax on the super wealthy to fund Green New Deal
Underfunded Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid; homeless people starving in droves on the streets of this country's wealthiest cities; and a million other real problems and this useless sack of bones wants to take what would amount to one of the most expansive and progressive wealth taxes ever and use it to buy Teslas and Priuses for her yuppie peers.
Where's the liberalism, here? Where is the genuine caring about the human condition and how it can be improved?
Instead, with her focus on money-pit pet projects and buzzwording Ocasio-Cortez looks more and more like just another swamp creature.
Pitiful...
So basically what you're saying is that you understand less than nothing about the green new deal?Underfunded Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid; homeless people starving in droves on the streets of this country's wealthiest cities; and a million other real problems and this useless sack of bones wants to take what would amount to one of the most expansive and progressive wealth taxes ever and use it to buy Teslas and Priuses for her yuppie peers.
Ocasio-Cortez floats 70 percent tax on the super wealthy to fund Green New Deal
Underfunded Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid; homeless people starving in droves on the streets of this country's wealthiest cities; and a million other real problems and this useless sack of bones wants to take what would amount to one of the most expansive and progressive wealth taxes ever and use it to buy Teslas and Priuses for her yuppie peers.
Where's the liberalism, here? Where is the genuine caring about the human condition and how it can be improved?
Instead, with her focus on money-pit pet projects and buzzwording Ocasio-Cortez looks more and more like just another swamp creature.
Pitiful...
Ocasio-Cortez floats 70 percent tax on the super wealthy to fund Green New Deal
Underfunded Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid; homeless people starving in droves on the streets of this country's wealthiest cities; and a million other real problems and this useless sack of bones wants to take what would amount to one of the most expansive and progressive wealth taxes ever and use it to buy Teslas and Priuses for her yuppie peers.
Where's the liberalism, here? Where is the genuine caring about the human condition and how it can be improved?
Instead, with her focus on money-pit pet projects and buzzwording Ocasio-Cortez looks more and more like just another swamp creature.
Pitiful...
Green New Deal-Solar, wind, tidal, thermal, hydro, etc. It's about eliminating carbon. Your post is deceptive and dishonest.
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Ocasio-Cortez floats 70 percent tax on the super wealthy to fund Green New Deal
Underfunded Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid; homeless people starving in droves on the streets of this country's wealthiest cities; and a million other real problems and this useless sack of bones wants to take what would amount to one of the most expansive and progressive wealth taxes ever and use it to buy Teslas and Priuses for her yuppie peers.
Where's the liberalism, here? Where is the genuine caring about the human condition and how it can be improved?
Instead, with her focus on money-pit pet projects and buzzwording Ocasio-Cortez looks more and more like just another swamp creature.
Pitiful...
Raising taxes on the ultrarich, who have a disproportionate amount of America's wealth?
Steering us towards a green economy?
Tell me without using histrionics exactly why this isn't a good idea.
Didn't someone else try this "tax the rich" thing in the last couple years? Oh...yeah...the French with their 75% tax on rich people. As I recall, that didn't work out so well and the French dumped the law in the trash.
Maybe Bimbo-Dancer should get an education with a historical focus before she spouts off with stupid ideas.
I wish I touched the 70% tax bracket, who doesn’t? Be glad to pay.
I wish I touched the 70% tax bracket, who doesn’t? Be glad to pay.
Maybe Bimbo-Dancer
Most history shows the opposite. When taxes are raised to unreasonably high rates on the wealthy they adjust their affairs to avoid the tax. One of the classic ones was imposing a "luxury tax" on new yachts. Several years ago Washington thought they'd nail the super rich by imposing a large surcharge on the purchase of new yachts. Great theory, except people stopped buying yachts, boat builders lost business and had to lay off workers. Meanwhile the rich just puttered around on their old yachts.I've seen numerous people in the past refer to the 80%+ tax brackets in post-WWII, but as always, there never is any evidence that those tax rates were ever reached/paid by anyone.
Whether this cutoff is 10 million a year or 1 million a year, having an obscene tax rate guarantees it would never be collected.
So basically what you're saying is that you understand less than nothing about the green new deal?
Underfunded SS, Medicare, and Medicaid are all problems that can be solved in other ways, and AOC already has plans to resolve that. The Green New Deal is an addition on top of that. It's a way to create millions of high paying jobs which cannot be shipped overseas while simultaneously reducing our dependency on fossil fuels. Radically lower energy costs, while stunting and reversing the effects of climate change.
It just amazes me how someone like her can be 10 steps ahead of you and yet you arrogantly assume she's the idiot.
Easy to say when you're nowhere near paying it.
My heart bleeds daily for the extraordinary burdens the US puts on the wealthy. “Oh, the humanity!”
All taxes are minimum requirements. Nobody will stop you from paying more.
Ocasio-Cortez floats 70 percent tax on the super wealthy to fund Green New Deal
Underfunded Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid; homeless people starving in droves on the streets of this country's wealthiest cities; and a million other real problems and this useless sack of bones wants to take what would amount to one of the most expansive and progressive wealth taxes ever and use it to buy Teslas and Priuses for her yuppie peers.
Where's the liberalism, here? Where is the genuine caring about the human condition and how it can be improved?
Instead, with her focus on money-pit pet projects and buzzwording Ocasio-Cortez looks more and more like just another swamp creature.
Pitiful...
I've seen numerous people in the past refer to the 80%+ tax brackets in post-WWII, but as always, there never is any evidence that those tax rates were ever reached/paid by anyone.
Whether this cutoff is 10 million a year or 1 million a year, having an obscene tax rate guarantees it would never be collected.
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