Great point, had I been talking about wealth distribution it would have had some validity. I'm talking about the AOC hype and her views being simplistic. She has a bunch of popular one line ideas that are very easy to say, but she hasn't explained how to pay for them. "Take the money from rich people" isn't an answer, it's a slogan. I'll have a great deal more respect for her when she produces an actual plan and a real budget. I'm not morally against taking the money from the rich, but I'm pretty sure they don't have enough to cover it.
That actually did work for the first ~125 or so years when our economy was set up that way. The still-fabulously wealthy people got mad that their 100s of millions weren't allowing them to have more than a dozen stone and marble super-estates with that ~80% tax rate, and that the country was churning on with fantastic wages and work for everyone....so then after capturing the GOP in the 20s, then crested with Reagan, we have what we have now. Utter shit, and utter failed policy for 40 years that the GOP has tried.
Here's what we know for a fact:
--this country works really well when Democrats are in charge and trusted to get the economy working (some 70+ years of complete congressional control)
--it splinters and falls apart when Republicans gain control: Reagan, Bush, Bush 2, now this Orange shitburger.
Why do we do things that don't work, when we already know what does work?
....yes, that's all very simplistic, obviously, but I'm just saying the "taking money from the rich people" idea actually worked really fucking well for the majority of this country's existence, and these were still the wealthiest people in the world, leaving their ancestors endless wealth for generations (yeah, we really should have taken more, because those are the assholes that are actually running things now).
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