AOC in a NUT shell!

I surmise that is just not a realistic wish of anyone, and that you are just so miserable, and triggered by Trump that he could offer you unlimited wealth and you would still whine.

1. Trump would definitely make that false promise.
2. That promise would not be fulfilled, leading to...
3. ...you blaming everything else except your shitty policy for why the promise wasn't fulfilled.
 
The theory is wrong. That's what I'm saying. Your theory only works when you control behavior. So you would need to control how people act in order for your policy to "work". Aren't Conservatives opposed to controls in the economy?

Every government intervention is to control behaviors. The point I made was about compliance. If you stand to save 70% taxes by hiding income, it becomes worth the risk. At 40-50% it's not worth the risk to try to avoid taxes. There's a certain point where too many people would attempt to cheat. It would be at that point where cheating would be rampant that a decrease in tax rates would result in less cheating. The math isn't hard from there. I guess you must believe that people will pay any tax rate no matter how high you make it.
 
Every government intervention is to control behaviors. The point I made was about compliance. If you stand to save 70% taxes by hiding income, it becomes worth the risk. At 40-50% it's not worth the risk to try to avoid taxes. There's a certain point where too many people would attempt to cheat. It would be at that point where cheating would be rampant that a decrease in tax rates would result in less cheating. The math isn't hard from there. I guess you must believe that people will pay any tax rate no matter how high you make it.

The "cheating" would be things like loopholes and credits and stuff, correct?

So why not eliminate those pathways while also raising marginal rates?
 
Every government intervention is to control behaviors.

This isn't government intervention, this is about how behavior needs to be controlled in order for Conservative policy to function. Every variable has to be controlled in order for Conservative policy "to work".

That's the point.
 
Every government intervention is to control behaviors. The point I made was about compliance. If you stand to save 70% taxes by hiding income, it becomes worth the risk. At 40-50% it's not worth the risk to try to avoid taxes. There's a certain point where too many people would attempt to cheat. It would be at that point where cheating would be rampant that a decrease in tax rates would result in less cheating. The math isn't hard from there. I guess you must believe that people will pay any tax rate no matter how high you make it.

Also, this defeatist attitude signifies you haven't really thought hard about this beyond pure superficial reaction.
 
By airplane or boat.




So you are making a moral argument now...so you're not making an economic one. So your emotion is carrying you here. BTW - Reagan and Bush the Dumber were the ones who pushed the service economy. And a service economy is perfectly fine. Service workers are the new working class.

I have made both and was spot on! I assume you missed this entire part of the story
Among other things, she prescribes “a massive transformation of our society,” which would require upgrading or replacing every house and building in the United States “for state of the art energy efficiency,” a 10-year plan to ban nuclear energy and other fossil fuels, eliminating air travel, crossing rivers and oceans with high-speed rail to everywhere else, making sure that all new jobs are “union jobs” and to abandon technology as a way to eliminate excessive carbon in the atmosphere. Everyone, even those who don’t have a job and don’t want one, would get a government check.
 
Also, this defeatist attitude signifies you haven't really thought hard about this beyond pure superficial reaction.

Look, if all the asshat liberal socialists in Hollywood, and Washington, as well as the general population want to send more of their money to Washington, have at it. I refuse to pay for people who are in AOC's own words unwilling to work, you know people like you!
 
Among other things, she prescribes “a massive transformation of our society,” which would require upgrading or replacing every house and building in the United States “for state of the art energy efficiency,”

This is a problem for you, why?

Wouldn't this spur industrial development and create jobs to fulfill?


10-year plan to ban nuclear energy and other fossil fuels,

Sounds reasonable to me.


eliminating air travel, crossing rivers and oceans with high-speed rail to everywhere else,

This is complete and utter bullshit, of course. You're lying here. She didn't want to eliminate air travel, she wants to reduce dependency on it for domestic travel.

All you do is lie.


aking sure that all new jobs are “union jobs”

So?


and to abandon technology as a way to eliminate excessive carbon in the atmosphere.

This sounds like you're bullshitting.


Everyone, even those who don’t have a job and don’t want one, would get a government check.

Well, we need a universal basic income as automation kills more and more jobs every year. You can't work a job that doesn't exist.
 
Look, if all the asshat liberal socialists in Hollywood, and Washington, as well as the general population want to send more of their money to Washington, have at it.

So once again, you make an emotional argument because you cannot make an economic or fiscal one.

Weak sauce.


I refuse to pay for people who are in AOC's own words unwilling to work, you know people like you!

Who says you pay anything? I don't believe you have a job.
 
This is a problem for you, why?

Wouldn't this spur industrial development and create jobs to fulfill?




Sounds reasonable to me.




This is complete and utter bullshit, of course. You're lying here. She didn't want to eliminate air travel, she wants to reduce dependency on it for domestic travel.

All you do is lie.




So?




This sounds like you're bullshitting.




Well, we need a universal basic income as automation kills more and more jobs every year. You can't work a job that doesn't exist.

Read the article you putz! All this entire thing is, is a way to make her friends in green energy rich while she rakes in money from knowing where Government will invest you absolute moron!
 
Read the article you putz! All this entire thing is, is a way to make her friends in green energy rich while she rakes in money from knowing where Government will invest you absolute moron!

Don't appeal to authority because you're not 100% secure in your argument.
 
So once again, you make an emotional argument because you cannot make an economic or fiscal one.

Weak sauce.




Who says you pay anything? I don't believe you have a job.

You clearly haven't thought about the new green deal beyond superficial scanning of the ideas. LOL
 
You clearly haven't thought about the new green deal beyond superficial scanning of the ideas. LOL

I've been behind converting our energy from fossil fuels to green since at least 2000. Supported Obama's green initiative in the ARRA. Supported the Paris Climate Accords. Support a Green New Deal. We have plenty of money to convert our energy sector, the problem is that most of it is in a very few limited hands.

Exxon knew of catastrophic climate change since the 1970's, but they convinced you otherwise using propaganda and lies.
 
AOC is a post turtle. That means she will be in Congress after McConnell flees to the hills.
AOC has shown herself to be a very good questioner of witnesses who does her homework.
She has been quite impressive.
 
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