Comment: Ocasio-Cortez's 'Green New Deal': A radical mandate for government control of American society
Ocasio-Cortez suggests in the clip that in her esteem, people should be doing more to pay their "fair share." When Cooper pressed on how she could possibly pay for the deal, she pointed to the progressive tax rate system in the 1960s, explaining that if you earn 0 to $75,000 a year, you would only pay 10% or 15% in income tax.
She continued:
"But once you get to the tippie tops, on your $10 millionth, sometimes you see tax rates as high as 60% or 70%. That doesn't mean all $10 million are taxed at an extremely high rate. But it means that as you climb up this ladder, you should be contributing more."Cooper replied that she was proposing a "radical agenda." "If that's what radical means, call me a radical," she said.
The newly elected New York representative has quickly become something of a lightning rod of attention for people of all political stripes, so this suggestion is certain to get as much attention as the recently revealed and viral clip of a teen-aged AOC doing a Breakfast Club style dance on a rooftop.
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The problem with that thesis is that it has been demonstrated that "the masses" are NOT being served by their "elected representatives" in Congress and the White House, who instead serve the interests of those who pay them bribes in the form of campaign contributions. Being installed in a political office is a ticket to coin money the world over, including the so-called "advanced countries," and remaining in office as long as possible is the goal of 99% of the political classes.
That hypothesis, that the "masses" will vote themselves bread and circuses, does not hold. The "masses" do not vote on anything. It is the bought-and-paid-for whores in office who vote, and they vote benefits for those who pay for their services. And IF the "masses" do not [involuntarily] "contribute" enough money to pay for the welfare for the rich johns who hire the whores, the said whores will borrow the money at interest from the banks, who are among the largest contributors to the whores in office.
That is why We The People have been involuntarily sunk into $21.5 trillion in debt by the whores, who have spent the money on bombs purchased from Lockheed Martin and Raytheon in order to persuade the owners of oil, bananas, coffee and other resources to sell them dirt cheap to Exxon, British Petroleum, Archer Daniels Midland, and ConAgra, and to buy their seeds from Bayer-Monsanto AG.
I for one have not seen any of these fabled bread-and-circuses benefits that I am supposed to receive, even though I ignorantly have allowed myself to be persuaded to vote in every election since I was able to do so. Tell me I'm wrong?