Tax The "Rich"

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wore a dress to a $275,000 per table gala at the Met in New York City last week that read, “Tax the Rich” across the back. Ironically, she attended to this high scale event because she wanted to hob knob with the “ultra-wealthy” in hopes that they would donate to her re-election campaign in their attempt to purchase influence over her to vote for specific carve outs for them in her “tax-the-rich” plan.

When questioned on social media that since she is considered “the rich” because her $170,000 per year salary puts her in the top 10% of wage-earners, would she be willing to pay more in taxes, she immediately backtracked, claiming she was not talking about herself. She said, “They want you to think that when we talk about rich, we’re talking about a doctor or a lawyer instead of someone with hundreds of millions of dollars, if not billions of dollars. That’s what we mean by ‘rich.’” And that is how it works. Politicians always want to tax the other guy; they want to spend other people’s money, not “theirs”. To someone making $40,000 per year, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is rich, and she should pay more taxes, but conveniently the people making less than $400,000 per year who draw up our tax laws, do not consider themselves part of the rich, and that is why Joe Biden’s tax increases only target people making over $400,000 per year, protecting the Washington politicians who can easily afford to pay more in taxes from the tax increases they’re foisting on other Americans. I guess if you increase taxes on people whose paychecks are funded by other people’s tax dollars, it’s considered “double-taxation”?