Comments by "N Marbletoe" (@nmarbletoe8210) on "AOC Wants To Raise Taxes On Rich And Anderson Cooper Is SHOOK" video.

  1.  @NewmanAutomotive  looking forward to an electric off-roader like a wrangler. with four motors and no drive shafts it should be a total beast in the hills. plus if you run out of electrons, just park in the sun for a day and you should have enough juice to get to a station. with the photovoltaic paint and all.
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  2. Maybe they are unrealistic, but probably going 1/2 way to what she says would be beneficial and realistic. We used to have free community colleges for example. Anyone could learn a profitable trade, and business benefited from trained workers. This is how it works in Germany (kinda).
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  3.  @VoodooV1  oh no I wasn't saying you want to tax the poor. Just this: no matter who you tax or regulate, if it's so high it's punitive, people will evade it. Water seeks the path of least resistance.   Agree Flat Tax is junk, but a national sales tax might be ok, exempting food and all other necessities of life.
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  4. The perfect is the enemy of the good.
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  5.  @usakrana8871  90% is extreme, but not unprecedented.
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  6.  @usakrana8871  idk man, i think ninviolance is a good way to go because we need to teach by example.
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  7.  @mr.sunrise3933  If the govt needs 70% of our money they are not doing it right. i like AOC tho. not everyone is a genius economist like Warren or Buffet, or Warren Buffet for that matter.
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  8. maybe when they shot him
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  9.  @urbz6712  If that's what we wanted we could just watch CNN or FOX and listen to democracy burn.
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  10.  @thorshammer138  gimme 8k then
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  11. the rate under ike was 91%, down from 92% when he took office. bad idea by a great president.
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  12. gotta love someone hated by the DNC and the GOP!
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  13. agree 70% or more is morally wrong. it could be higher than today but not that high
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  14.  @shanehackett4683  Ok I agree 90% isn't objectively immoral, but it is immoral in my opinion. I agree people have an obligation to contribute to society which they benefit from. However, the big earners do pay a lot of taxes (on a per person basis much more than the middle class or poor). I'm fine with raising their taxes but not over 50%. BTW the money they have, they don't stuff it under a mattress, it IS re-invested constantly... buying stocks, bonds, etc. provides money to both companies and the government to do what they do.
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  15.  @zayan6284  NORWAY, not France, is the leader in electric car buyage. They're doing just fine danke very fjord.
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  16.  @djackson4657  yes he has! i dig it. i like how he vetoed an anti-gun bill. i don't like his stand against marijuana. but overall he's a centrist as governor.
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  17.  @darksaint0124  Before the merchants ran things, the kings did. Was that better?
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  18. First of all "1%" is a misnomer. The corporate lords etc. are more like the 1/100th of a %. Second, yes they should pay fair share (more than today) but nowhere near 50% much less 70%.
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  19.  @transsylvanian9100  There were many floods throughout prehistory, the problem is finding which legends refer to which ones. Whatever, does it matter? FLOODS suck and CLIMATE CHANGE will bring more of them. The BIBLE teaches us what to do if it gets REAL bad: SAVE THE CHICKENS!!!!!!!
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  20.  @VoodooV1  You could tax them at 90% and it wouldn't matter much because they'd find ways to not pay it. You could tax poor people 90% and same result.
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  21.  @VoodooV1  When taxes are super high for the poor, we make black markets. Some countries have over half their economy in the gray or black market.   We need a system that seems fair to most people, including rich and poor. Stop taxing food! Don't tax anyone under 30k/ year, and close the loopholes for the big corporations. Stop subsidizing oil drilling. Etc. Many good things to do, then people will have some confidence in the government again.
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  22.  @ryan_806  Quite right; we need to also invent trees.
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  23.  @CDs_YouTube_  I agree, nothing is free. Free time is even expensive. But if we sow $10 now we can reap $100 tomorrow, metaphorically speaking. It's not a zero sum game. As W said, we can "make the pie higher!"   Lowering corporate tax rates, taxing nanosecond trading, closing international tax loopholes, ending the tax on food, and subsidizing sustainable energy instead of oil... this will all make the pie higher.
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  24. "During college, Cooper spent two summers as an intern at the Central Intelligence Agency while studying political science." -wikipedia
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  25.  @seanking1775  seriously tho, the govt can't make people buy something. it's not one of it's powers. it can require you buy something IN ORDER to do something that is a privilege, such as, a permit to camp. but not just "buy this or you go to jail."
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  26. Trump is radical but he's not a traditional republican. the GOP hates him
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  27. 12 years is a good goal, but anytime a goal gets too "no tolerance" then it's probably going to fail.
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  28. everything is good just because our ancestors survived it.
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  29.  @SadisticSenpai61  To be clear I think radical is often good; it refers to the "root." I guess by that definition you are right! ok. I still think that 90% is way too much because it is "almost everything." As in, "give me almost every dollar you make above x amount." That rent is just too dam high.
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  30. no one including the federal government
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  31. what did John D. do?
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  32.  @danmueller1754  ok that's quite interesting!
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  33.  @jimsmith3392  Those numbers for photovoltaic mean that it's not far from competitive. It's less than 2x the cost. So we can exxpect it to be competitive soon, and it already is cheaper in places with expensive electricity (e.g., Hawai'i). Solar rocks. That said, we should let the market dictate the pace of change, and encourage it with tax breaks and stuff.
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  34.  @jimsmith3392  Excellent point about batteries and life-cycle analysis. However, it's just a matter of technology. For large scale solar, you don't need batteries (can use water storage, molten salt storage, spinning mass storage, etc.). New batteries will use less or near zero toxic substances. But that's a good point, and a reason to not rush the transition.
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  35.  @darksaint0124  Wow, I didn't realize that the rich didn't have any power in ancient times. lol. There have been holes in the tax laws since there were tax laws.
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  36. would you believe... a ferret with a hamster wheel?
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  37. Elizabeth Warren is the best engineer for economics that I've heard in a long while. I wonder what she thinks tax rates should be; probably not 90%. She knows how to fix an engine even if she's a poor salesman.
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  38.  @exiledfrommyself  The money doesn't go to Trump, true. It goes to Saudi Arabia to bomb people they don't like. Both Dems and GOP in congress actually gave the military MORE money than even Trump asked for. So it does matter who is in charge of spending it, and I don't trust any of them much.
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  39.  @trickyboy1517  We might consider a national sales tax instead of income tax. Income taxes discourage income, which is silly. Taxing consumption encourages savings and efficiency, which is good.
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  40.  neal thailand  To reach 100%in 12 years you'd have to force people to ditch their older cars. Better to make electric cheaper than gas, and let the market work. Which is happening, just not fast enough.
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  41. I agree, fix the leak in the cup before you pour more coffee in.
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