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Paying for Our Socialist Utopia
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez assures us it will be easy. Just like we paid for WWII…
Love it!
Fine job, EJ.
We’ll use our solar powered bombers to defeat Germany one more time.
Transoceanic High Speed Rail for the win!
Ads look a little like VA for all. Which is maybe a little closer to the reality?
The idea that the GND could be funded in a manner similar to World War II is every bit as fantastical as the rest of that wish list. World War II was a one-off spike in Federal spending which was cut in half almost as soon as the war was over. The top tax rate was 94%, a victory tax was added which imposed an income tax on every one with a job, there were excess profit taxes, there were significant restrictions on consumer spending and a large portion of the war was financed via the purchase of bonds. This still resulted in massive deficits during the war years. The GND would not be a one-time spending spree; it would be long term ongoing level of spending at World War II levels or greater with no end in sight. No amount of taxing or borrowing would allow for adequate funding of this monstrosity.
Well done, EJ.
The Progressives citing the Green New Deal as similar to what we did in WW2 do not know their history. After his reelection in 1940, FDR was gearing up for the next wave of New Deal proposals. However, when WW2 began he needed maximum production for the war effort and the cooperation of leading businessmen to achieve it. He got it, and in return shelved the new proposals and lifted many of the existing regulations he had imposed on business – the opposite of what the Green New Deal does.
She needs duct tape over her mouth in this picture and all the time
Throw another Socialist on the fire, children, and I will tell you all about purple unicorns and the road to serfdom.
The American public bought $185.7B in War Bonds between November 30, 1942 and December 8, 1945. With inflation that’s $2.621T in today’s currency. By even the most optimistic estimates that would be enough to pay for “Medicare for All” for a single year.
The federal government did eight loan drives in that three year period. But war was meant to end. Health care never does. It would have to be conducted in perpetuity.
At least we’ll save all that money on burial expenses once everyone has free health care.
No, save all the money on healthcare by burying everyone.
Perhaps mandatory cremation could be used to replace some of that “dirty” energy that must be destroyed. Then again, maybe not because it would add to our carbon footprint, wouldn’t it?
Yeah, and even if you bury them, methane leaks up to the surface. Maybe we could use Yucca Mountain for that.
Which is the idiocy of AOC. She truly thinks the Government just keeps printing more money without any negative effect or need to ever account for under a money supply.
Yes! Especially the daring NIGHTTIME bombing raids by Britain’s Royal Air Force! Oh wait…
If she thinks the common man doesn’t have enough money, and printing money is the answer to government shortfalls, why not just cut to the chase and print 350,000,000 $1,000,000 bills, and hand one to each citizen. There, problem solved.
OCA: “Oh wait. If the guys who work at the mint are now millionaires, they’ll retire. No one will be there to operate the printing presses. We might run out of money anyway. Geez, this economics stuff is harder than I thought!”
With her face on them!!
Now that’s thinking
outsideinside the box.Obama’s vast experience as a Community Organizer qualified him to propose the Affordable Care Act, an oxymoron if there ever was one. AOC’s experience as a bartender, hours spent absorbing the genius of her inebriated clientele, certainly qualifies her to propose solutions to America’s most perplexing problems. Can’t wait until Pocohantas and the other presidential wannabes try to outmaneuver this female prodigy. Would be funny if it were not so frightening.
Frightening? Yes when the media trumpets AOC’s socialist agenda but never questions the cost of her proposals. Only thing holding her back from a presidential bid is her age. Obama in pigtails!
With the ensuing inflation that would probably be enough for a couple loaves of bread…
Please don’t tempt them!