Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

[Loren Pechtel]

By and large just not giving enough of a damn about those with less.

The ruling elite can be tamed through taxation. If they want to live, work, and play in the USA, there should be a price to pay. Our elected officials should be using this desirability factor to the betterment of all it's citizens.

There is only so much milk in a cow. If it's over milked, there won't be any milk left that may be needed for other purposes.

The cow has 5 silos full of stored milk...going sour.....and the farmer, who feeds the cow, is starving and the cow wont offer the farmer a bucket.

Still not understanding it. The rich don't have piles of money sitting around! That money is invested in the means of production. Take it away and you have no new factories etc--you knock us back to third world status.

 

[ZiprHead]

The cow has 5 silos full of stored milk...going sour.....and the farmer, who feeds the cow, is starving and the cow wont offer the farmer a bucket.

Still not understanding it. The rich don't have piles of money sitting around! That money is invested in the means of production. Take it away and you have no new factories etc--you knock us back to third world status.

Trickle down apologetics.

 

[lpetrich]

Still not understanding it. The rich don't have piles of money sitting around! That money is invested in the means of production. Take it away and you have no new factories etc--you knock us back to third world status.

Loren Pechtel ought to explain to us how rich people are able to pay for mansions and yachts and other such expensive stuff. If they don't have much loose cash, then they ought to be unable to pay for such things.

 

[TV and credit cards]

By and large just not giving enough of a damn about those with less.

The ruling elite can be tamed through taxation. If they want to live, work, and play in the USA, there should be a price to pay. Our elected officials should be using this desirability factor to the betterment of all it's citizens.

There is only so much milk in a cow. If it's over milked, there won't be any milk left that may be needed for other purposes.

The cow has 5 silos full of stored milk...going sour.....and the farmer, who feeds the cow, is starving and the cow wont offer the farmer a bucket.

Still not understanding it. The rich don't have piles of money sitting around! That money is invested in the means of production. Take it away and you have no new factories etc--you knock us back to third world status.

It's invested in their companies, in other real estate, and in stocks. New factories and expansions can be paid for with borrowed money collateralized by the aforementioned assets. I'm sure they will do just fine with a little less coming in. There's plenty enough milk in the cow.

 

[Harry Bosch]

There is only so much milk in a cow. If it's over milked, there won't be any milk left that may be needed for other purposes.

The cow has 5 silos full of stored milk...going sour.....and the farmer, who feeds the cow, is starving and the cow wont offer the farmer a bucket.

Still not understanding it. The rich don't have piles of money sitting around! That money is invested in the means of production. Take it away and you have no new factories etc--you knock us back to third world status.

It's invested in their companies, in other real estate, and in stocks. New factories and expansions can be paid for with borrowed money collateralized by the aforementioned assets. I'm sure they will do just fine with a little less coming in. There's plenty enough milk in the cow.

Investors like to see that owners have equity in a capital assets that they finance. They want owners to have skin in the game. Most of the time banks want to see that an investor has at least $3 dollars invested for every dollar of debt. Secondly, no company can be 100% leveraged. It's be too expensive.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

Still not understanding it. The rich don't have piles of money sitting around! That money is invested in the means of production. Take it away and you have no new factories etc--you knock us back to third world status.

Loren Pechtel ought to explain to us how rich people are able to pay for mansions and yachts and other such expensive stuff. If they don't have much loose cash, then they ought to be unable to pay for such things.

Most of their money is in the means of production. You could reallocate those mansions and yachts without causing disaster, but there's no way to be selective like that. When you eat the rich you end up with little new investment and that is catastrophic.

Or consider what happened to France. The French Revolution left France 30 years behind where it had been before.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

There is only so much milk in a cow. If it's over milked, there won't be any milk left that may be needed for other purposes.

The cow has 5 silos full of stored milk...going sour.....and the farmer, who feeds the cow, is starving and the cow wont offer the farmer a bucket.

Still not understanding it. The rich don't have piles of money sitting around! That money is invested in the means of production. Take it away and you have no new factories etc--you knock us back to third world status.

It's invested in their companies, in other real estate, and in stocks. New factories and expansions can be paid for with borrowed money collateralized by the aforementioned assets. I'm sure they will do just fine with a little less coming in. There's plenty enough milk in the cow.

This is just another manifestation of the standard leftist idea that everything can be funded by the infinite pool of profit in the business world. (I say infinite because any attempt to quantify the effects are rejected--and that would only make sense if the pool was infinite.)

 

[Harry Bosch]

The cow has 5 silos full of stored milk...going sour.....and the farmer, who feeds the cow, is starving and the cow wont offer the farmer a bucket.

Still not understanding it. The rich don't have piles of money sitting around! That money is invested in the means of production. Take it away and you have no new factories etc--you knock us back to third world status.

It's invested in their companies, in other real estate, and in stocks. New factories and expansions can be paid for with borrowed money collateralized by the aforementioned assets. I'm sure they will do just fine with a little less coming in. There's plenty enough milk in the cow.

This is just another manifestation of the standard leftist idea that everything can be funded by the infinite pool of profit in the business world. (I say infinite because any attempt to quantify the effects are rejected--and that would only make sense if the pool was infinite.)

Yes. We're in a period of time where a very large majority of companies will be reporting stiff losses. Loans are either paid back from profits or reserves. Companies with reserves (equity) will survive and continue to employ their workers, those that are leveraged to the tilt will go banko.

 

[angelo]

Leftists such as AOC and co, simply hate the word profit without actually understanding what the word means.

 

[southernhybrid]

I do think that some on the left are very unrealistic when it comes to how much taxes the most wealthy should pay. If we want more social programs, we will all have to pay more taxes. The wealthiest should pay a higher percentage than they currently do, but, despite the things that I like about AOC and her followers, they need to have a better understanding of how expensive some of these programs would be and there aren't enough billionaires to support them.

 

[Patooka]

There were billionaires in the 50s. What AOC et al are proposing is a fraction of what they were paying back then. They don't need to be treated like a protected species

 

[Jason Harvestdancer]

There were billionaires in the 50s. What AOC et al are proposing is a fraction of what they were paying back then. They don't need to be treated like a protected species

Well, there may been the equivalent of such, due to comparative value of the currency.

Although there are different ways to measure the current amount of $1,000,000 in 1950, all measures say that it it has a higher numerical value today.

$1,000,000 in 1950 has a relative price worth of $10,760,008.31 today using the Consumer Price Index (CPI)
$1,000,000 in 1950 has a relative price worth of $8,618,693.56 today using the GDP Deflator.
$1,000,000 in 1950 has a relative wage of $20,097,212.84 paid to an Unskilled Worker today.
$1,000,000 in 1950 has a relative wage of $25,516,129.03 paid to paid to a Production Worker today.
$1,000,000 in 1950 has a relative Per Capita GDP of $29,766,554.68 today.
$1,000,000 in 1950 would be the same proportion of what the average household spent on Consumer Goods and Services as $14,976,906.80 is today.
$1,000,000 in 1950 would be the same proportion of output as measured by GDP that $64,739,022.68 is today.

www.measuringworth.com

 

[lpetrich]

Ed Markey on Instagram: “The Green New Dealmaker” - "When the government abandons its people, it’s up to us to rise up and make a revolution. We’re fighting for dignity, for justice, and for our future."
His campaign ad.
AOC is supporting this incumbent old white male Senator against Joe Kennedy III, of that family in politics, someone who is supported by the one whom she primaried, Joe Crowley.

Mel on Instagram: “[July 13th, 2020]- “60 years in Mass. ...”

60 years in Mass. They know who I am and where to send the bills. Now, they don’t know who I am or where to send the unemployment.”

Spotted this house driving around my town earlier this summer and it obviously caught my eye. Although the guy living here didn’t want his portrait taken he said he did this to his house because he wanted to show his frustration with how unemployment was being handled by the state when he needed it the most.
#unemployment #massachusetts #2020 #covid

A small house.

From an AOC fan site on Instagram:
Daily Freakout Clips on Instagram: “China is locking up Muslims in concentration camps why isn’t no one talking abt this this is the modern day holocaust!!!”
"Trump White House: Bolton: Trump approved of China's decision to imprison Muslim Uyghurs in concentration camps"

Instagram photo by PostSecret • Aug 15, 2020 at 7:11 AM - "Tess Barker (TesstifyBarker on Twitter): Anyone else not think they'd spend their adult years defending 'science' and 'the mail'"

 

[lpetrich]

AOC did a
Illustrations+Lettering on Instagram: “I know a lot, and by lot, believe me - A LOTTTTTTTTT of people have been commenting in Instagram’s choice of NEW font inclusions. …”

I know a lot, and by lot, believe me - A LOTTTTTTTTT of people have been commenting in Instagram’s choice of NEW font inclusions. I have a LOTTT to say to THOSE people so I will break them into points.
1. Half of you guys don’t even know what y’all are talking about. Fonts are a different ball game and almost 8-9 years of design personally and I still get confused when kerning. If you don’t agree, ask yourself “What’s the difference between a font and a typeface?”
2. The only purpose of Fonts is not be aesthetic for y’all. Graphic Design is PROBLEM SOLVING FIRST. And your aesthetics suck BTS.
3. Hating on #comicsans doesn’t make you COOL. So all the “Food/Beauty/Lifestyle/Fashion influencers” I don’t think you are influential enough to question the existence of a font.
4. That doesn’t mean that you have to endorse or use Comic Sans in every story or post now. No. But understand the purpose of it’s existence before being so adamant and judgemental about it, and in turn influencing fools who wouldn’t ever bother to Google shy Comic Sans was invented and is a constant easily accessible font.

Hence this post. I tried.

Quoting an article written by @drake_baer

Comic Sans is recommended by the British Dyslexia Association and the Dyslexia Association of Ireland. An American Institute of Graphic Arts post from last summer said that it might be the best font for dyslexics, given its “character disambiguation” and “variation in letter heights.” While other fonts have been specifically designed to be read by people with dyslexia —Dyslexie and OpenDyslexic are two — they just don’t have the availability of Comic Sans. To hate on Comic Sans is “ableist” and doing so discounts the reading difficulties of millions of people.

Also got inspired by the answers on @makethelogobigger.psd stories

#designfordisability #designinspo #typographydesign #dyslexiaawareness #disabilityadvocate #disabilityawareness #thepurposeofdesign #graphicdesign #typographicposter #womenoftype #homwork #letteringbasics #fonthistory #awarenessiskey #illustratorsoninstagram #girlsmakingmagic #ladieswhodesign

• Why Comic Sans is a public good
• Comic Sans is one of the best fonts for people with dyslexia
• The irregular shape of the letters in Comic Sans allows people with dyslexia to focus!!
• The best font for dyslexics -- Comic Sans
  • Character disambiguation
  • Variation in letter height
• To hate on Comic Sans is ableist

The OCR software that I used to get this text was rather dyslexic about it, making lots of mistakes.

 

[lpetrich]

Instagram Stories recently had only these fonts:

• Classic - sans serif
• Strong - sans-serif italic
• Modern - thin all-caps
• Typewriter - monospaced
• Neon - cursive handwriting

IS now has these ones:

• Italic serif
• Outline
• Flat Neon cursive
• Comic Sans

They don't seem to have names.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

There were billionaires in the 50s. What AOC et al are proposing is a fraction of what they were paying back then. They don't need to be treated like a protected species

It's been pointed out numerous times that they weren't really paying those rates back then.

 

[ZiprHead]

There were billionaires in the 50s. What AOC et al are proposing is a fraction of what they were paying back then. They don't need to be treated like a protected species

It's been pointed out numerous times that they weren't really paying those rates back then.

And they're not paying the rates now. So what's your point?

 

[ZiprHead]

Instagram Stories recently had only these fonts:

• Classic - sans serif
• Strong - sans-serif italic
• Modern - thin all-caps
• Typewriter - monospaced
• Neon - cursive handwriting

IS now has these ones:

• Italic serif
• Outline
• Flat Neon cursive
• Comic Sans

They don't seem to have names.

Is this kind of shit really necessary here? Give us a break, will ya'.

 

[J842P]

There were billionaires in the 50s. What AOC et al are proposing is a fraction of what they were paying back then. They don't need to be treated like a protected species

It's been pointed out numerous times that they weren't really paying those rates back then.

And yet they are still paying lower effective rates, and they still would be if these rates came to be today, so this is a pointless canard that doesn't address anything.

Everyone already knows that effective tax rates are lower than the nominal rate. There is no need to remind people.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

There were billionaires in the 50s. What AOC et al are proposing is a fraction of what they were paying back then. They don't need to be treated like a protected species

It's been pointed out numerous times that they weren't really paying those rates back then.

And yet they are still paying lower effective rates, and they still would be if these rates came to be today, so this is a pointless canard that doesn't address anything.

Everyone already knows that effective tax rates are lower than the nominal rate. There is no need to remind people.

People keep pointing out those old very high rates didn't cause catastrophe as evidence we can go to such rates again. I'm pointing out that it isn't such evidence as the rates never really existed in the first place.