Socialist Bernie Sanders and his dingbat protege Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez accidentally got into an economics battle and it’s as hilarious as it sounds. This is like two hot yoga novices engaging in a kung-fu fight because socialists don’t know the first thing about money. According to AOC, people making $38,000 a year are below the poverty line and deserve all the freebies democrats are promising. Bernie on the other hand says he’s going to tax the crap out people making $29,000 a year to pay for all the freebies democrats are promising. Something’s gotta give.
Here’s AOC explaining how people who make a comfortable living are actually poor and destitute:
.@AOC: “40M Americans are living in poverty right now, and if the poverty line was… at what some people think it should be — about $38,000 a year — we would be shocked at how much the richest society on the planet is allowing so much of its people to live in destitution.” pic.twitter.com/h2ETkSvJX8
— The Hill (@thehill) September 27, 2019
“40 million Americans are living in poverty right now, and if the poverty line was real, if it was at around what some people think it should be, about $38,000 a year, we would be shocked at how much the richest society on the planet is allowing so much of its people to live in destitution,” said Ocasio-Cortez.
Yes, if we redefine what it means to be poor, there would be more poor people. Hell, let’s make the poverty line $50,000 a year so we’ll have even more poor people to make the case that other people’s wealth belongs to everyone. This is some classic AOC idiocy. $38,000 a year is poor for someone living in a major city run by democrats, but it’s plenty to live comfortably anywhere else.
The trouble arises from mad commie Bernie Sanders, who has no sympathy for those “rich” assholes making that much money a year. He went on Late Night with Stephen Colbert to explain how he intends to pay for his socialist agenda:
Bernie Sanders: Under government health care takeover, everyone making more than $29,000 per year will pay more taxes. pic.twitter.com/W1VLvbhNxV
— Arthur Schwartz (@ArthurSchwartz) September 27, 2019
“Is health care free? No, it is not,” started Bernie.
What? Then why do they keep calling it “free health care?” They should call it something like “expensive health care” or “socialism.”
“So what we do is exempt the first $29,000 of a person’s income. You make less than $29,000, you pay nothing in taxes. Above that in a progressive rate…people do pay more in taxes,” Bernie said.
Wow, so he’s going to raise taxes on lower income families to give them crappy government-run health care they don’t want? Sounds awful. And BTW, substantially raising taxes on the working and middle class is “regressive” not “progressive.”
So this is where we stand: AOC says earring 38K makes you poor and Bernie says “f*ck those people, I’m raising their taxes.” Usually lefties are on the same page when it comes to their insane talking points because a memo goes out instructing them in their outrage. What must have happened here is either, 78-year-old Bernie’s eyes are failing and he misread the memo or AOC doesn’t know how to read and none of her staffers filled her in on the contents of the memo.
I’m sure Bernie and AOC will settle their differences and arrive at a consensus on who gets free stuff and who has to pay for that free stuff. Really, this is just a slight disagreement over the best way to steal our money. In the meantime, this is a beautiful reminder that socialists don’t know anything about money and should never be in charge of it.
