You mean these taxes?

“electability” isn’t a real objection. It’s like a self fulfilling prophecy. They call people “unelectable” in order to try and make them seem unelectable. The aim is to have the claim repeated enough so it becomes something "everybody knows". Saying someone is unelectable is basically just saying “I don’t like them…

That Tablet article is ridiculous. Just FYI, I’m Jewish, because apparently that’s important for whether my opinion has any merit.

WE ALREADY SPEND MORE THAN THAT ON HEALTH CARE RIGHT NOW!

I would guess that the Kokkinakis, Kyrgios, and Tomic’s of Australia don’t think of themselves as immigrants like “those people” (e.g. Muslims) and are probably already voting Liberal. The skips don’t care about the wogs while there are African Gangs to worry about.

Oh, you mean it is/was absurd according to your insane political beliefs. I suppose that’s true. Cool. Though it’s weird how you guys are pretty shy about expressing those beliefs and instead pretend there is some consequentialist reason why a proposed policy is absurd. I think we’d all be happy to hear about how…

Why? As the article points out, it was approximately the top marginal rate in the not too distant past. What about makes 70% absurd now compared to then?

If you could point out anyone who has claimed AOC is a wonderkind legislator, as in drafting and passing legislation through Congress, I’d be interested to see it. Because at least from what I’ve seen, exactly no one has said that. Since, again, she has been a legislator for 12 days.

You mean a person who has been a member of Congress for literally 12 days has done “fuck all” legislatively? Oh my god, what a naive, lazy, stupid, not Serious, un-Pragmatic idiot! If she was a Serious, not-Naive Team Player she definitely would have had 100 bills passed in to law by now.

Nope, I’m a human from right here on planet Earth. The same species and planet as you (I assume...).

Wait, these people want fascism even though they claim to fight against fascism? Does that mean the people they are fighting against (the co-opters of the word fascism) don’t want fascism? What do the co-opters want? Since the co-opters and the people-that-use-“centrist”-as-an-insult (“PTUCAAI”?) claim to want…

Until we can agree that nobody has the right to tell me what to do with my money, there can be no common ground.

Excluding necessities like law enforcement, safety and military...

Since 2013 Australia has had 5 different Prime Ministers from the two major parties. All except one of the Prime Ministers were taken down by an internal party coup rather than losing an election. Not really a place which “just works”.

You literally described her plan as “Saying the rich will pay for it” and then claimed it wasn’t a “real answer”. The whole point is you never mentioned the 70% marginal rate on income over $10mm. You just made an inane “observation” in an attempt to dump on the Green New Deal without actually articulating a real…

That’s the real crux of the whole “unrealistic” wailing and moaning. The bs about “realistic” or “unrealistic” is a way for people who don’t like the plan for various reasons (including philosophically in regards to taxing the wealthy) to object without voicing their actual objections. Mostly because something like “I…

The “unrealistic” part of the plan might stem from you not actually, you know, reading the bare bones of the plan. Because you’d see the tax proposal is just part of the possible funding mechanisms under consideration.

What does “unless you can explain how you’re going to make those ideas a reality” even mean? AOC isn’t proposing to solve the problem of climate change with like a perpetual motion machine or something else which defies the laws of physics. She’s proposing (among other things) to raise tax rates on the wealthy.…

Why do you think about the taxes you pay without considering the benefits those taxes pay for? You guys act like the money is “taken” from you and burned in a ditch or something. Though I understand that for many of the people on your side of the aisle paying for things like “health care for all regardless of one’s…

How is it not a real answer? For one, “the rich will pay for it” wasn’t her answer. It’s your inaccurate and patronizing description of her answer. AOC’s actual answer was a relatively specific answer for this very early stage of a policy proposal describing one possible source of funds. The “rich” are people who make…