Comments by "wvu05" (@wvu05) on "Dem One-Ups AOC with 90% Tax Rate" video.

  1.  MidScream1  So, you want Bill Gates to never pay a penny on the billions in stock increases now that he is retired from Microsoft? Should Jeff Bezos get his "Amazon winnings" tax free? Larry Ellison? Most of those people take their pay in stock rather than income.
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  2.  MidScream1  I am aware, but you said that there should be no tax on capital so I was asking if you think that they should be tax exempt for those.
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  3.  MidScream1  Unless you are using words in a very different way than most people who describe tax policy is using it, you are advocating for no tax on capital gains or dividends. The only proposals for taxing unrealized capital gains are the wealth tax (which I have mixed feelings about just because I don't want the government to become too reliant on such large sums of wealth being maintained) or inheritance (which I fully support, because Buffett could pass his shares in Berkshire Hathaway to his wife and kids upon death, and they could sell them tax free, and that is obscene). Taxing the profits is by definition taxing capital, because that is the source for the money.
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  4.  roccorostagno  Which policy has the right "moved to the center" on? Taxes? Civil rights? Voting rights? Civil liberties?
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  5.  roccorostagno  What an interesting response that manages that blend of condescension and missing the facts. Let's start by the premise that you said that Republicans have moved to the center. 1) Taxes: Reagan raised taxes 11 times to rein in the deficit. Poppy did the same thing in 1990. Grover Norquist likes to brag that no Congressional Republican has voted to raise taxes since. I'd argue that is moving to the right. 2) Civil rights: Let's talk history. For its first 110 years, the Republican Party had an admirable record on civil rights. However, after the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Democratic Presidential nominees who were on the record on the bill in 1964 were 4-0 (Johnson, Humphrey, McGovern, Mondale) in support of the bill, while Republicans who won the Presidential nomination had a record of 4-5 (Nixon [twice], Ford, and Dole in favor: Goldwater, Reagan [twice], and Poppy [twice]) against. 3) Voting rights: which court gutted the Voting Rights Act? Oh, that's right! It was the Roberts Court, with the five conservatives voting in the majority. Democrats aren't for non-citizens voting, we're against poll taxes. 4) Civil liberties: which party has taken the lead on fighting civil forfeiture?
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  6.  roccorostagno  Well, which is it, is it a good thing that Republicans haven't raised taxes since Poppy, or is the national debt a bad thing? You can't have it both ways. Re: the Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act, interesting that you can't actually engage the substance of the question. As far as Byrd goes, I am a Christian, and I believe in redemption and repentance. For the last 40 years of his life, he supported civil rights, and for the last 50+ years of his life, he apologized for his past, so I would say that he definitely strived for redemption and proved that he wasn't the same man he was at the age of 24. That doesn't excuse what he did, but that shows that he knew it was wrong. Vouchers are not a civil rights issue. If you cared so much about poor inner city schools, you wouldn't be supporting something to take money away from the schools that a majority use to give to schools that don't perform any better on the whole, but your no-tax ideology means gutting those schools even more. As far as money and politics, of course nothing can be done with that attitude. Public financing of campaigns is the reform that makes all other reforms possible.
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