But the big deal is the Green New Deal. First AOC said a 70% tax on incomes over 10 million. Makes sense to me. It is not that you pay 70% on your entire income when you make 10 million. You only pay 70% for income past 10 million. I don't know about you, but I think that would be a nice problem to have. Why is anyone complaining? Then Warren proposed a wealth tax. Is it 2%? That is minuscule. Long past due. Bernie proposed yet another.
It is capitalism, not socialism, that asks that the gap between the rich and the poor not get too wide. Too wide and the wheels don't grind like they need to.
Trump is looking suspect. Will Mueller merely be background noise for the next two years? Or will Trump be toppled and Pence be beaten in 2020? He almost lost the Senate on the Wall and shutdown issue. It happened fast. If enough Senate Republicans nod, he is gone.
His handling of the shutdown reflects upon the trade war with China. If you were going to take the December deal anyways, why engage in the shutdown? If you were going to take the Chinese offer to get them to buy more soybeans (and a few other things), why create the drama?
Will Trump be impeached? If not, will he be beaten? Which Democrat will win? Will it be a Warren-Harris ticket with Sanders helping hone the basic message? AOC will loom large without even running. If she can get the young people to vote, the Democrats win easy.
Too young to run in 2020, AOC is going to be the most exciting figure in 2020. I can see her crisscrossing the country on behalf of the ticket once the primaries are over. If it is a Warren-Harris in 2020, AOC gets 2028 for Green New Deal 2.0.
AOC represents a generation that did not contribute to the global warming crisis but is set to suffer all its consequences. Howard Dean did not become president. But Deaniac Obama did. Bernie is not going to win, but AOC will carry his torch. It is not capitalism, it is not socialism, it is not this or that. It is a new label. It is a bartender millennial rising up to the challenge. It is a new political outlook (not even ideology) that is to herald the new Age of Abundance.
Harris is Left Coast.
Women have been kept away from the White House for so long, it feels like one woman getting in for one time is not going to be enough. Warren, Harris, and AOC are three generations of women.
The 2020 Season Is @SenWarren, @KamalaHarris And @AOC https://t.co/N1nz9AhIny @VarshPrakash @_waleedshahid @saikatc #GreenNewDeal #climateapocalypse #2020 #impeach— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) February 7, 2019
WOW@AOC just perfectly laid out a winning 2020 framework. Smart candidates will pay attention. pic.twitter.com/i1g2cQmUQx
— jordan (@JordanUhl) February 7, 2019
.@AOC says Medicare For All means single payer. No excuses.pic.twitter.com/CvebhPwpk2
— Justice Democrats (@justicedems) February 8, 2019
The Green New Deal is a bold plan to shift our country to 100% clean and renewable energy. We do not fight this fight for our generation alone but for generations to come.https://t.co/Mzi2Y2LZg0
— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) February 8, 2019
When your #GreenNewDeal legislation is so strong that the GOP has to resort to circulating false versions, but the real one nets 70 House cosponsors on Day 1 and all Dem presidential candidates sign on anyway https://t.co/BbHIn8cu0f
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) February 8, 2019
We can have Democrats they fight like @AOC: pic.twitter.com/yl4YVwndB4
— Justice Democrats (@justicedems) February 8, 2019
It wasn’t all me! It’s us. Our team’s perspectives, conversations, arguments, examples, humor, and bravery give me the tools to draft these lines of questioning.
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) February 8, 2019
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