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Alexandria Ocasio Cortez’s movement-campaign is the perfect embodiment of what the political revolution is all about! If You live in the Bronx or Queens don’t forget to vote on Tuesday, June 26th!

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Bronx and Queens followers: get out and vote for Ocasio-Cortez in the primary tomorrow!

No one asking the question who’s going to pay for all that free shit? Cause if there is no real answer the answer is you.

Funny you ask that, as I’ve spent a ton of time asking that question. Might I recommend raising taxes on the wealthy and redirecting funds from unnecessary or wasteful social programs? I could go into detail on any of this if you’d like me to, but for the simple version:

• The full repeal of the Tax Cuts And Jobs Act
  
• The creation of new millionaire’s income tax brackets
• Reform or elimination of individual and corporate tax expenditures, along with a consolidation of other expenditures
• The elimination of special treatment and loopholes exploited by the rich and influential industries from the tax code
• Expanding IRS funding to audit and prosecute wealthy tax cheats
• Reform of the international tax code, including policies aimed at eliminating the use of offshore tax havens
• The elimination of the payroll tax cap
• The elimination of special treatment for capital gains income and the stepped-up basis
• Dramatic expansion of estate taxes
• A carbon tax
• A financial transactions tax
• Dramatic cuts in military spending, military aid, homeland security and surveillance spending, police, and incarceratory spending (the later two achieved through a massive overhaul of our criminal justice system)
• Dramatic cuts in agricultural and business subsidies
• The elimination of waste and the consolidation of duplicative programs
• A variety of healthcare reforms which increase efficiency without significant negative effects on quality or quantity of care (switching to single-payer would come with dramatic administrative savings itself, but I’m talking about the adaptation of more active cost-saving measures)
• A variety of economic reforms to boost growth without the use of significant expenditures, thus boosting revenues

Some of these programs will be paid for by average taxpayers; for example, basically any single-payer health program would require an increase in payroll taxes to be financially feasible. But the benefits of these programs can easily outweigh the cost (especially when it comes to something like single-payer, where payroll tax increases are compensated by an end to insurance premiums, effectively a private tax the vast majority of people are already paying). There’s my real answer.

So you’d increase most taxes on the middle class. But you see raising taxes doesn’t raise tax revenue. Even Obama admitted that much. So even you should know repeal the tax cuts will raise unemployment and produce less tax revenue. Which means you’re not actually paying for it.

Here’s a quote from a Democrat to explain it:

“It is a paradoxical truth that tax rates are too high today and tax revenues are too low, and the soundest way to raise revenues in the long run is to cut the rates now.”

-JFK, 1962

You say the benefits of all this free shit outweigh the cost, just like Obamacare was supposed to save $2500 per family. If you knew it didn’t, it was an admitted LIE. The rest who spread this obvious lie were just being dumb, and should be ashamed for being dumb and admonishing at anyone who disagreed. If free health care were cheaper, every greedy business would line up to get and resell it as a benefit. They know better.

To your credit you mention eliminating subsidies. I agree 100%.

1. Uh, no, the wealthy is not the middle class. 
2. Yes, raising taxes does raise revenue. The Laffer curve maxima- the point at which tax rate hikes begins to generate negative revenue returns, is generally estimated to be around the effective rate of 70%, not even remotely close to where we are currently. The argument you’re making has been pretty widely discredited.
   
3. Obama promised a $2,500 saving as a 2007 campaign promise, not as an actual, evidenced estimate of the effects of the final Obamacare bill. Additionally, there is in fact evidence that the ACA has slowed down the growth of healthcare costs, as “National health spending is projected to be $2.6 trillion lower than in the 2010 ACA baseline forecast for the same period,” in part due to reforms made by the ACA.
4. Regardless, the proposals made here are not the same thing as the ACA.  There’s a massive number of government programs and policies whose benefits outweigh their costs (take a look at a basic cost-benefit analysis of the Clean Air Act for a huge example). There’s plenty of research suggesting that a proposal like single-payer healthcare would do the same, especially when compared to the wildly inefficient healthcare system we currently have.

Please no estate taxes, that would apply to everyone and that’s how people lose houses, farms, resources, simply due to the death of a family member. That’s just… not right. Especially considering most savings/wealth a person will have in their life is inherited. I get that there is an enormous income inequality in the US to inhumana levels. An estate tax would punish the very economic tiers of people you’re looking to aid. Taxing any non-liquidated asset in USD is an awful idea, it means you have to sell whatever you worked to buy/establish in order to pay your taxes and not go to prison.

That’s entirely untrue. In 2017 the estate tax applied only to the largest 0.2% of estates, and that’s before the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act’s reforms, which will shrink that to even lower numbers. The average estate tax rate on an estate under $5 million dollars is 0.0%, and even among the estates large enough to be taxable it’s only 16.8%. The idea that the estate tax harms small farms and businesses is a myth: last year, it applied to only 80 small farms and businesses, total. The estate tax imposes virtually zero financial hardship on anyone and the idea that it does is a myth generated out of thin air by its wealthy critics; it is in fact the single most progressive tax in the entire tax system, and should be expanded dramatically.