Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Needs Your Money

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Americans For Tax Reform report that the “Ocasio-Cortez Tax Plan Creates 82.7% Top Income Tax Rate for New Yorkers.” Whoa!  Let’s see how many good New York and California (83.30% tax) liberals jump on that train to nowhere.

The current top federal income tax rate is 37 percent, so the Ocasio-Cortez plan will nearly double the tax rate for the top bracket.

New York State has a top income tax rate of 8.82 percent while New York City has a top rate of 3.876 percent. So under this proposal, her constituents would pay a top combined income tax rate of 82.7 percent:

Federal income tax rate:   70.0%
NY state income tax rate: 8.82%
NYC income tax rate:       3.876%
TOTAL:                           82.696%

New Yorkers would not be the only ones suffering under the Ocasio-Cortez plan. California taxpayers would pay a top rate of 83.3 percent (70 percent plus the California rate of 13.30 percent).

In addition to this high income tax rate, taxpayers would remain impacted by other taxes including payroll taxes, taxes on capital gains income and dividends, and the death tax.

Europe – The Final Days

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Who is left to defend Great Britain and the Continent?  According to The Telegraph, the British Army thinks that the only defenders left may be  “snowflakes, binge gamers and ‘me, me, me millennials’ in new recruitment drive.”  So when the ‘enemy horde’ is at the gates, our savior is to be a WOW (World of Warcraft) top gun?  Well, I for one, feel a whole lot safer knowing that a selfie-addicted, snowflake, binge-gamer is keeping me safe at night.

The new recruitment advertising campaign, titled ‘Your Army Needs You’, launches on January 3 with a series of adverts on TV and the internet as well as billboard posters.

The three adverts tell the stories of individuals whose perceived weaknesses are seen as strengths by the Army.

Potential recruits are shown at home or work, with others calling out their stereotypes, before the scene changes to depict them in the Army performing roles where their potential is recognised.