New US Congresswoman from NY, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) is among the most prominent young US politicians and she is an explicit socialist. She wants lots of freebies -- free Medicare, free housing, free education till university, students debt cancellation, federal jobs guarantee, free migration and ICE abolition, 100% renewable energy, etc.
See https://ocasio2018.com/issues.
AOC's big plan is her "Green New Deal" that aims a 100% RE economy, zero fossil fuels, by 2030. It will be a very expensive plan that will require very big and high taxes. Her plan is up to 70% personal income tax (current US top marginal tax rate is 37%) for people earning $10 M a year or higher.
Ocasio-Cortez Suggests 70% Ultra-Rich Tax Could Pay for Climate Plan
Wow, politics of envy minds. Zero Hedge picked up this AOC-Krugman partnership,
Durden observed,
See https://ocasio2018.com/issues.
AOC's big plan is her "Green New Deal" that aims a 100% RE economy, zero fossil fuels, by 2030. It will be a very expensive plan that will require very big and high taxes. Her plan is up to 70% personal income tax (current US top marginal tax rate is 37%) for people earning $10 M a year or higher.
Ocasio-Cortez Suggests 70% Ultra-Rich Tax Could Pay for Climate Plan
By Sahil Kapur, January 5, 2019
Now there is an interesting development. Nobel Economics awardee Paul Krugman wrote,
The Economics of
Soaking the Rich
What does Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez know about tax policy?
A lot.
By Paul Krugman, Jan. 5, 2019
“...when taxing the
rich, all we should care about is how much revenue we raise. The optimal tax
rate on people with very high incomes is the rate that raises the maximum
possible revenue... As I said, Diamond
and Saez put the optimal rate at 73 percent, Romer at over 80 percent — which
is consistent with what AOC said.”
Wow, politics of envy minds. Zero Hedge picked up this AOC-Krugman partnership,
Washington's
Latest Match Made In Hell
by Tyler Durden, Sat, 01/12/2019
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-01-12/washingtons-latest-match-made-hell
Durden observed,
"Does the US
actually want to become a sclerotic centrally planned economy with minimal if
any growth, forever teetering on the brink of collapse like that of Europe? In
fact, the proposals by Ms. Ocasio-Cortez would make the situation in the US far
worse than in most of Europe. Not to mention that her “Green Deal” is downright
nutty, and that is putting it as mildly and politely as possible."
I'm a non-fan of Krugman and other lefty academics and researchers. These are people who love central planning because they are the technocrats of the politician central planners, if not the planners themselves appointed by socialist dictators in power.
I'm still wondering how come that many Americans who enjoy their facebook and youtube capitalism, google and twitter capitalism, Samsung and Apple capitalism, etc. would be enamored with the idea of socialism, weird.
Anyway, I do not believe that socialism will succeed in the US. If ever it will, that will be an opportunity for the US to disintegrate into many new countries, allow certain states to become socialist, fully or partly, while leaving the rest to embrace the profit and price system under capitalism.
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