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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.

“What is the problem with trying to push our technological capacities to the furthest extent possible?” Ocasio-Cortez asked. “There’s an element where yeah, people are going to have to start paying their fair share in taxes.”

Ocasio-Cortez pointed out that in a progressive tax rate system, not all income for a high earner is taxed at such a high rate. Rather, rates increase on each additional level of income, with dramatic increases on especially high earnings, such as $10 million.

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/01/04/ocasio-cortez-70-percent-tax-1080874
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If she took 100% and your first born child to sell on the black market, there isn't enough money to pay for her proposals. She should stick to bartending and dancing.
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Thank you loonbags, keep getting your name in the media by proposing these crackpot bills that will go nowhere, so we can use them in future campaign commercials.
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Thank you loonbags, keep getting your name in the media by proposing these crackpot bills that will go nowhere, so we can use them in future campaign commercials.

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She must realize that most of the people who make that kind of income already know how to use trusts and foundations to avoid it... right?
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What about the super-duper wealthy?  And do the really-really wealthy get a pass?

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She must realize that most of the people who make that kind of income already know how to use trusts and foundations to avoid it... right?

And for those that don't and catch on, it might work...once...and once only.

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She must realize that most of the people who make that kind of income already know how to use trusts and foundations to avoid it... right?

I'm not sure she has the intellectual capacity to understand the ABCs.
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I'm not sure she has the intellectual capacity to understand the ABCs.
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Understand them?  That bug-eyed skwerl looking fool can barely recite the abc's if you spot her the 1st 25 letters.  Hell she can't even count to 10 with out taking her shoes and socks off..
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"Tippy Top earners" = middle-class
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Understand them?  That bug-eyed skwerl looking fool can barely recite the abc's if you spot her the 1st 25 letters.  Hell she can't even count to 10 with out taking her shoes and socks off..

Now that's a lie!  She can too say her ABC's.  As long as she can remember the tune, "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star."
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I wonder if she will include her own family in that 'rich' group. She's a little rich girl herself from a wealthy family. Will all the multimillionaires in Congress be included?
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Now that's a lie!  She can too say her ABC's.  As long as she can remember the tune, "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star."

Well...the counting to ten part is true!    :cool:
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Well...the counting to ten part is true!    :cool:

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