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I feel like I'm missing something because I thought Bill Gates had a decent criticism of AOC's tax proposal...mostly because asshats like Ben Shapiro are parading around Gates's criticisms...

Read more: Democrats are calling for higher taxes on the rich, and history might be on their side

"In terms of revenue collection, you wouldn't want to just focus on the ordinary income rate, because people who are wealthy have a rounding error of ordinary income," Gates, one of the richest people in the world, told The Verge. "They have income that just is the value of their stock, which if they don't sell it, it doesn't show up as income at all, or if it shows up, it shows over in the capital gains side. So the ability of hedge fund people, various people — they aren't paying that ordinary income rate."

Instead, he said, lawmakers should focus on things like the estate tax, taxes on capital and Social Security. His view may be more closely aligned with Sen. Elizabeth Warren's proposed tax policy that focuses on taxing net worth on households worth more than $50 million.

 

Dems push on the brakes themselves and everyone else follows suit. Literally the most powerful people in the world act as if their own view doesn’t have a massive effect on public support for things. If Hillary or Obama or Pelosi or whoever says that something isn’t feasible then media people and polls are just going to inevitably parrot that and not even slight progress is made.

 

That’s a no.

 

I don't think Nate Silver is that smart

 

Klobuchar’s policies are there. They just suck. I don’t even know what Booker stands for though besides “not doing anything.”

 

Yeah I don’t think of Klobuchar as running on her identity in the same way that’s been done like someone like Booker or Hillary. Which is the right move for her because she would be crushed in the charisma department compared to everyone else

 

And yet South Park was doing what again at that time ...?

Truly the biggest fuck up of maybe our species ... and we just ... did ... nothing.

 

Time to start using this mug that I made in high school

 

Bernie announcement almost made me tear up. I'm a mess. But so happy also.

 

I’m taking out my yard sign from 2016 you can’t stop me

 

Corey Robin isn't even talking about policies there he's talking about underlying ideology. Some want to reform and some want to manage

 

Was looking at Batgirl comics on Amazon and got this garbage as a sponsored book

 

LOL KEEP ON WALKING IT BACK

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