Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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zaqhhh said:
Hog,

Let's get down to basic economics. Is wealth scarce?

If so, how much of the pie should one person be allowed to take? We have a system where soon a handful of people will own the same as half the population.

I'm not asking for everyone to have the same or for work ethic to not matter. No one needs past a certain amount, now yes that differs by area and by state and we can debate a 100% income cap, but the Rich used to pay a lot more in this country and wealth inequality used to be a lot less of a problem.

If you answer no other of my questions... What percent of the wealth should the top 1% have? 80% 90% 99% Seriously I want to hear your opinion.
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Have you ever watched the movie "Idiocracy"? If not I suggest you watch it because your generation is leading us there.
 
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zaqhhh said:
Hog,

Let's get down to basic economics. Is wealth scarce?

If so, how much of the pie should one person be allowed to take? We have a system where soon a handful of people will own the same as half the population.

I'm not asking for everyone to have the same or for work ethic to not matter. No one needs past a certain amount, now yes that differs by area and by state and we can debate a 100% income cap, but the Rich used to pay a lot more in this country and wealth inequality used to be a lot less of a problem.

If you answer no other of my questions... What percent of the wealth should the top 1% have? 80% 90% 99% Seriously I want to hear your opinion.
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So, you're telling me that the pie is a fixed size? Then, can I assume there is exactly the same amount of money now as there was 100 years ago, and it's only distributed differently?
 
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1972 Grad said:
Oh no. He knows it all. This is the kind of brainwashed individual that our education system is turning out.
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As a 14 year teacher in the public schools and a PhD candidate with intent to teach at the college level, and as a conservative, my response to this uses two words. The second word is "you."

The whole "brainwashing education" trope is getting old.
 
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37L1 said:
So you are for limiting income are you?
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I don't think we should have Billionaires nope. If you can't find value worth living and innovating when you are already beyond what most can comprehend than too bad, so sad. Let me find the world's smallest violin...
 
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zaqhhh said:
I don't think we should have Billionaires nope. If you can't find value worth living and innovating when you are already beyond what most can comprehend than too bad, so sad. Let me find the world's smallest violin...
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OK so at what point should someone be forced to give up any additional wealth? You have just said a billion is too much. Let's define the limit. And why.
 
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VolStrom said:
Have you ever watched the movie "Idiocracy"? If not I suggest you watch it because your generation is leading us there.
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The movie where people reject science and end up practically destroying all life? Yep, that sounds like my generation all right.

The cognitive dissonance is admirable. If ignorance is bliss, you must be on cloud 9.
 
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AshG said:
As a 14 year teacher in the public schools and a PhD candidate with intent to teach at the college level, and as a conservative, my response to this uses two words. The second word is "you."

The whole "brainwashing education" trope is getting old.
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Spoken like someone who thinks his sh!t doesn't stink because he worked 9 months a year poisoning young minds.
 
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1972 Grad said:
So, you're telling me that the pie is a fixed size? Then, can I assume there is exactly the same amount of money now as there was 100 years ago, and it's only distributed differently?
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Not fixed per say, but certainly not growing at a pace enough to sustain the 99% if all that can be divided is 10% of total wealth.
 
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zaqhhh said:
Have you taken a statistical methods course? Samples are representative. So Bob in Kansas probably got asked or someone akin to him. If a sample is representative than yes, there may be variations of you add in 100k more people but it is unlikely to be significantly different than 1k similarly polled persons.

When was the last poll you saw with that many people? That's why there are margins of errors.
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Nope. Nobody from Yale was calling Bob from Kansas dude. Those polls are manufactured. They have to stay in their demographics so that the poll will show what they want.

Remember all those polls saying Hillary was going to win in a blue wave landslide in 2016? Wait,
was you still in highschool?
 
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1972 Grad said:
Spoken like someone who thinks their sh!t doesn't stink because they were a teacher.
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Whoa now...

Spoken like someone who has actually been in the gottdamned trenches and has significant amounts of anecdotal and research based evidence to show your comments are based on outlier issues and magnified for ideological effect.

It's a very liberal mindset, yours; someone doesn't agree with you, go for the cheap shot.
 
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zaqhhh said:
The U.S has the best medical tech in the world. The U.S also has the worst costs in the world.

Americans go to Canada for medicine and sometimes affordable Care. Canadians come here for high risk procedures if they can afford it.

Guess who polls happier with there system?
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Rich Canadians
 
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Let's face it. AOC is high-end comedy until you realize this stupid woman has her hands on the wheel. It is like watching an SNL skit...except it is real and she means every bit of it. She just looks into the camera and says the most jaw-dropping ignorant things imaginable with most conviction and confidence. In the back of my mind, I keep waiting on the laugh track and a cut to commercial but it doesn't come. Ronald Reagan's old quote about liberals not being ignorant just knowing so much that is not true... is not applicable to her. She is ignorant and knows so much that is not true.
 
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AshG said:
Whoa now...

Spoken like someone who has actually been in the gottdamned trenches and has significant amounts of anecdotal and research based evidence to show your comments are based on outlier issues and magnified for ideological effect.

It's a very liberal mindset, yours; someone doesn't agree with you, go for the cheap shot.
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You earned that with your **** you comment. If the shoe fits, put the m'fer on and wear it.
 
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AshG said:
As a 14 year teacher in the public schools and a PhD candidate with intent to teach at the college level, and as a conservative, my response to this uses two words. The second word is "you."

The whole "brainwashing education" trope is getting old.
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Nuff Said.......
 
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AshG said:
As a 14 year teacher in the public schools and a PhD candidate with intent to teach at the college level, and as a conservative, my response to this uses two words. The second word is "you."

The whole "brainwashing education" trope is getting old.
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But it's happening every single day at the college level.
 
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SpaceCoastVol said:
OK so at what point should someone be forced to give up any additional wealth? You have just said a billion is too much. Let's define the limit. And why.
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I think ideally limits would be enacted by states because of differences amongst CoL. Because we are speaking on a federal level, I would be inclined to take the most expensive living area (say San Fran). Average home is around 1 million multiply that by say 100.

100 million would be a fair cap in my opinion. Probably less if I could personally legislate, but I feel inclined to negotiate (for now) with idiots using the bs exaggerated incentive argument, who are nonetheless citizens and entitled to a democratic vote.
 
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