{"id":6577,"date":"2019-01-04T14:29:15","date_gmt":"2019-01-04T19:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/susanwright\/?p=6577"},"modified":"2019-01-04T14:29:15","modified_gmt":"2019-01-04T19:29:15","slug":"freshman-congresswoman-wants-to-bring-the-economic-pain-to-the-wealthy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/susanwright\/2019\/01\/freshman-congresswoman-wants-to-bring-the-economic-pain-to-the-wealthy\/","title":{"rendered":"Freshman Congresswoman Wants to Bring the Economic Pain to the Wealthy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

On Thursday, a host of freshmen Congressmen and women were sworn in, excited and eager to begin their chapter of political service in this great experiment known as the United States of America.<\/p>\n

Of that new class, there was Democratic Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, out of New York.<\/p>\n

She\u2019s also potentially the dumbest, most unqualified individual to be elected to public office since Donald Trump was elected \u2013 and that\u2019s saying a lot.<\/p>\n

Now, to be clear, those that thought posting a fun video of a college-aged Ocasio-Cortez dancing in a tribute to 80s movie, \u201cThe Breakfast Club\u201d was somehow a knock against her, they did her a favor.<\/p>\n

It made this dangerously dumb woman relatable and likable.<\/p>\n

Personally, I thought the video was cute. It did not put her in a bad light, so if you\u2019re one of the ones behind that, congratulations. It had the opposite effect.<\/p>\n

That being said, on her first full day in office, details of an interview with CNN\u2019s Anderson Cooper, set to air on Sunday were released. In the interview, she discusses her proposal for what she calls the \u201cGreen New Deal,\u201d which only makes sense to other millennial social justice warriors and full-on Communist scum.<\/p>\n

In what she touts as a effort to reduce carbon emissions to zero and to transition the nation away from fossil fuels within ten years, she sees that happening by taxing the wealthy (see: job creators) somewhere upwards of 70 percent.<\/p>\n

From the interview:<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s an element where, yeah, people are going to have to start paying their fair share in taxes,\u201d the freshman New York lawmaker said in an interview with Anderson Cooper that\u2019s slated to air Sunday on CBS\u2019 \u201c60 Minutes.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That\u2019s what the hard left always say: fair share.<\/p>\n

So here\u2019s taxes simplified: If I\u2019ve got $10 and you\u2019ve got $1, and we\u2019re taxed 10 percent on what we have, I\u2019m paying $1 and you\u2019re putting a dime into the pot. The one with more is already paying the bulk.<\/p>\n

Now, let\u2019s take it onto the national scale. Consider how many Americans pay no income tax, either because they\u2019re \u201cunderemployed,\u201d or are disqualified by some other way.<\/p>\n

In 2018, according to the Tax Policy Center, over 44 percent pay no federal income tax.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s edging dangerously close to half.<\/p>\n

The notion that of that half that\u2019s left, with only a small portion being of the wealth Ocasio-Cortez is referring to, that punishing them for being achievers is the direction our nation should go is reprehensible \u2013 and a dash of cold water on the ambitions of anyone who would otherwise aspire to achieve.<\/p>\n

\u201cOnce you get to the tippie-tops, on your $10 millionth dollar, sometimes you see tax rates as high as 60% or 70%. That doesn\u2019t mean all $10 million dollars are taxed at an extremely high rate. But it means that as you climb up this ladder, you should be contributing more,\u201d Ocasio-Cortez said.<\/p>\n

She also acknowledged that her goal is \u201cambitious.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s going to require a lot of rapid change that we don\u2019t even conceive as possible right now,\u201d she told Cooper. \u201cWhat is the problem with trying to push our technological capacities to the furthest extent possible?\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The tippie-tops, eh?<\/p>\n

Out of that word salad, we can gather that her main goal is to sink innovation and drag the wealthy down, rather than to create an atmosphere where those who are down have opportunities to pull themselves up.<\/p>\n

You know how that happens?<\/p>\n

When they have more opportunities to work, because the job creators are expanding and growing and bringing those jobs to American communities. That doesn\u2019t happen if the government is stepping on their throats.<\/p>\n

But she added, \u201cI think that it only has ever been radicals that have changed this country,\u201d citing President Abraham Lincoln\u2019s issuing of the Emancipation Proclamation and President Franklin Roosevelt pushing for the passage of Social Security.<\/p>\n

Asked if she considers herself a radical, Ocasio-Cortez replied, \u201cYeah, if that\u2019s what radical means, call me a radical.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

She\u2019s full of really bad ideas, like Medicare for all (Who pays for it?<\/em>), housing as a right (Who pays for it?<\/em>), no tuition for public college (Who pays for it?<\/em>), and cancelling all student debt (Who pays for it?<\/em>).<\/p>\n

Honestly, if the people who voted this monstrously dull-witted child in want to shoulder the expense for all her ill-advised programs, I\u2019m all for it, but those of us with IQs above room temperature shouldn\u2019t be brought along for the ride.<\/p>\n

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