Not to be undone by Occasio Cortez’s socialism dream tax rates, Julian Castro has advocated raising the rate at an astronomical 90%. The Daily Wire reports:
Apparently unsatisfied with the suggestion of fellow Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez that wealthy Americans should be forced into a 60-70% tax rate, likely 2020 presidential candidate Julian Castro, who served as the Obama Administration’s Housing and Urban Development secretary, seemed to speculate on Sunday about the possibility of raising Ocasio-Cortez’s bid to 90%.
Appearing on ABC News’ “This Week,” Castro remarked that he could support Ocasio-Cortez’s suggestion, adding, “Oh, I can support folks at the top paying their fair share … There was a time in this country where the top marginal tax rate was over 90%, even during Reagan’s era in the 1980s, it was around 50%.”
Castro, the former mayor of San Antonio, Texas, urged “that we get more serious about making sure the corporations pay their fair share. He continued, “During this campaign, if I run, I’m going to be very up front with the American people on how we would do that because I think that they are owed that, but it is worth it. It is worth it in this country for us to do that,” he said, vowing not to be “a single issue candidate.”
In 2015, Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, never averse to raising taxes, also brought up the Eisenhower tax rates during the Iowa presidential debate. Sanders was asked about tax rates, “Well, let’s get specific, how high would you go? You’ve said before you’d go above 50 percent. How high?” He responded, “We haven’t come up with an exact number yet, but it will not be as high as the number under Dwight D. Eisenhower, which was 90%.”
With rates like this, why would anyone ever vote for a Democrat again?
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How in the hell is this sorry low life scumbag b*st*rd wet back doing in our country office,and trying to tell us how to run things???
I TRIED TO LOOK AT THINGS FROM A LIBERAL PERSPECTIVE BUT MY HEAD DIDN, T FIT UP MY ASS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Democrats don’t want average individuals to have jobs. The want the Welfare Voters.
Time to really drain the swamp starting with this !no good thieving bastard. Like all socialists whos emantra of of ‘wealth redistribution’ only the wealth he means is everyone elses but . Why should i and the rest of the American taxpayers be forced to support the non contributors: bums, freeloaders, deadbeats, illegals and ‘boat people’? Really why should the non contributors who think the goverm=nment aka the taxpayers owe ’em a living. julian castro, like all the other dumbocraps, liberals need to go live in china, russia or better yet, notth korea. They’ll find themselves in favoprable company. Absolutely disgusting!
Time to really drain the swamp starting with this !no good thieving bastard. Like all socialists whos emantra of of ‘wealth redistribution’ only the wealth he means is everyone elses but . Why should i and the rest of the American taxpayers be forced to support the non contributors: bums, freeloaders, deadbeats, illegals and ‘boat people’? Really why should the non contributors who think the goverm=nment aka the taxpayers owe ’em a living. julian castro, like all the other dumbocraps, liberals need to go live in china, russia or better yet, notrh korea. They’ll find themselves in favoprable company. Absolutely disgusting!
An addendum: where does this SOB live? it seems the liberals think Americans will support all these freebies when in reality the American people are seeing the liberals for their real selves, nothing but thieving, lying no good for America anti Americans who’s mantra of ‘ all for me and FUCK everyone else as long as I live my Champage luxury lifestyle, have SHIT loads of hard earned taxpayer funds to dole out to all my constituents thus assuring future dimocrap voters, can sit on my ass while promoting my own personal agenda and not have to answer to anyone all while getting huge paychecks’ all is good’ blah, blag blah. Hopefully the American people start getting rid of these traitors to America and the American way before it’s too late! God please enlighten the American people!
As long as there are more drones than honey bees you will have socialism. Those who are socialists and those who make money from socialist government will control the vote. New York and California are Socialist states along with Oregon. The Democrats have introduced a bill to abolish the electorate college. If it passes America will be a one party country The New Democratic Socialist Party will be in power to infinity. That is their goal and the are working very hard towards their goal.
What is the sense of working long hours when the Government will take all of it away from you?
Unfortunately we can’t take this woman litely. She won a primary against a well established Democrat and is dragging the Democrat Party leadership even further left in fear of losing their jobs if they don’t go that direction. She appears to be picking up a lot of support from younger voters that are anxious to have one government obligation turned into a giant give-away, and that is student loans. Karl Marx said one of the ten steps to Communism is “free” education. Is the higher cost of education fueled by easy government loans an accident? Oh, and let’s don’t forget the impact of rising healthcare costs on the average family budget, as if that were an accident.
What the country needs now is more stupid idiots already in Congress but to put one in the White House . I wish every dam one had To go out and work like the middle class has done for years and years we feed the poor and the rich . Where would any of us be if it weren’t for the rich who have the jobs us middle class hard working people work at. And the last thing I’ve read there paying about 40 plus % of the taxes so the worthless who want work get a check and food and even toilet paper to wipe there ass. Dam democrats !!!! Ms Cortez I hope you get what you deserve you ignorant asshole
I do think that a lot of the people supporting Trump do not ever think just voice something that is in no way what the facts are. This article makes it look like everyone would be paying the higher taxes when in fact it stipulates that only the top 1% who pay little to no taxes, through loop holes in ther tax bracket, look at the CEO who takes his pay in deferred stock , now he pays no taxes on that until he cashes the stock in, so that $23 Million salary is virtually tax exempt. where all the money you get is taxable.
Again . . .these are the people who PRODUCE and create JOBS for the middle class to receive WAGES. The government produces nothing. All they do is redistribute the nation’s wealth to promote their re-elections. All these dems do is discourage entrepreneurship and promote welfare. Gotta keep them urban plantations stocked with dem voters.
Well, Robert, whereas William might have missed the good point you made, what in the name of sanity makes you think that the rest of the Democrat Party supporters think further than uttering hatred toward anyone who doesn’t share their pathetically limited views? Since when do the Democrats address truth and facts? Their hatred is so acute that all they do is spew hatred and talk utter crap like that of Elizabeth Warren, Maxine Waters, Kamala Harris, Chuck Schumer, a disgusting liar. The fact is that a lot of wealthy Democrats like George Soros love the thoroughly rotten taxation system that is in desperate need changing, not least that they in fact pay taxes in the way that everyone else does. What exists is corrupt to the core with the middle class once again carrying the burden.
Where do the democrats keep coming up with these clueless morons!! The biggest problem with his theory is that wouldn’t be enough they would come back and demand 100%!
We’ll all be on government assistance. There will be the rich and the poor, no middle class. It would be chaos. What is she thinking-!!???? And, she thinks she knows how to run our government. Is there a brain in her head-??? Well, this should be the end of her political career.
If the taxes were to be raised by the amount suggested, then how would the taxpayers have enough to pay their bills and ? ? ? ? ? ? What are these crazy fools thinking anyway, they should be stopped from running for “ANY POLITICAL OFFICE” ! ! ! ! ! !
Ah, don’t forget the infamous loopholes that would let their version of The Elite continue to pay little or no taxes
Democrats will always be the biggest LEECHES in the world. Then they do not spend a dime on making conditions better for their constituents, instead dividing and pocketing every dime they can lay their hands on. They are so disgusting.
Considering that the GOP’s strong suit is rolling over and playing dead-I guess we are in for tax hikes.
When the top rate was 90%, almost everything was tax deductible. We were still paying off the WWII debt. Now the democrats have gotten us in a place where the percentage debt is back up very high. Taxing companies just raise prices that we pay. Look at California where we have the highest gas taxes and the roads are still crumbling because the road taxes are not spent on the infrastructure. Democrats are crazy. It is your fault we are in this trouble if you didn’t VOTE REPUBLICAN and take an active interest in the party.
It was WWll and fighting for survival. Anyone ever think of learning history? The national debt was enormous. Rates came down after that.
these are true idiots rich people are the ones that fund new jobs and business if you reduce there income how do you think the country is going to grow besides that is something that would happen you have to many super rich democrats and the will cut there funding to the democrats in a heartbeat you go messing with there money
Castro, of course, would allow a multitude of exemptions and deductions for his rich donors. Hypocrite!