I do. I think she has lost some of her edge in the last couple years. It’s made her a sincerely more effective politician and moved her closer to me, but I can see how edgelords wouldn’t appreciate it.
Also gutting backdoor Roths is more peak shitlib. The party’s base is now affluent suburbanites who are just aching to go back to the GOP, they’re going to see this in conjunction with doing absolutely nothing to actually tax billionaires and be rightfully enraged.
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I don’t think that AOC woke up yesterday morning with a dastardly plan to co-opt some messaging and send a secret signal to everyone that capitalism rules. I think she made a choice that wasn’t well thought out and is part of a larger problem of leftist messaging being watered down and altered in the service of capitalist institutions.
FFS every attendee there gets to write off their $30,000 ticket as a charitable donation to the Anna Wintour Fancy Dress Wing of the Met.
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I don’t even think it was a troll. It’s a pretty straight-forward policy position that probably 99% of the population agrees with. The only real remarkable thing about it is just how bent out of shape people have gotten over it.
Here is the most liberal member of the House committee that wrote this piece of shit. Absolutely hopeless.
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Lmao wtf. If you so a wealth tax for say over 5 million how in god’s name would people who make 200k a year think they’re getting taxed?
A wealth tax seems the least likely for people who make 6 figures to think they’re getting taxed. If you don’t have 5+ million you know you aren’t getting taxes
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I’ve just made peace with these guys getting bribed. Being in the House kind of sucks, we’re not talking about the best and brightest here. The candidates are selected by the party elite, who are bought and paid for a million times over.
I think what they are saying is that they know they won’t be taxed now, but when they become millionaires, then fuck all that tax shit.
They think they themselves will make over 5 milliona year some day (they never will) and that then THEY will have to pay the wealth tax. And that just cant be abided.
It’s all bullshit. Nobody actually thinks that.
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Ive said it before, but this is all part of the problem where Democrats have just completely lost the message on taxes and the drown the government in a bathtub message goes basically unopposed. We have to get away from the taxation is punishment/bad idea where giving money to the government is bad like it goes into a black hole and sell the public that, actually, while you will have less discretionary income your life will actually be better under progressive policies for a myriad of reasons (no more insurance, planet not on fire, etc)
Obviously, policy wise, we cant even take the most rudimentary and obvious steps to tax the rich that are needed because, yeah, average people arent gonna look at this bullshit and feel more taxes are just. The progressive agenda is not gonna make it, though, in a world where tax increases are a dirty word. We are going to need more of a contribution from most of the middle class. May as well have that fight starting now with tax increases on the rich rather than continue this “punish success” bullshit and it would be nice if relatively well-off progressives, even with the bullshit tax code for the rich, moved away from this idea of “fairness” and started pitching tax increases on the merits.
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You’re never going to get buy in from high income wage earners as long as truly rich people pay nothing. A doctor who actually does pay 40%+ on their last dollar of income is not going to sign up for that when the private equity assholes that own their practices pay capital gains rates.
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Seven years ago, New Yorkers voted decisively to empower a new bipartisan commission to do what self-interested politicians could not: draw new congressional district lines that were not gerrymandered to favor a particular party.
But as the panel prepares to unveil its proposed maps for the first time on Wednesday, Democratic lawmakers in New York and Washington are already laying the groundwork to cast them aside — plotting to use their supermajorities in Albany to draw new district boundaries for the next decade that might eliminate as many as five Republican-held seats.
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Fucking about time lol
this is actually an argument for a flat income tax, but a steeper progressive wealth/death tax. like, when you are still building up your assets, you can have $100k income one year, and $10k the next, it’s not at all clear why it’s not more equitable for the person to get taxed like they made $55k/yr over the span. with a flat tax that’s automatic. of course, to offset the inequality this introduces is that once they cross over $1m/5m/10m/50m in assets, they should be paying higher share as the wealth tax. but that’s a very difficult argument to sell to the public right now.
Actually taxing billionaires polls at like 80% or more. It’s just corruption.
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How so?
