Met Gala

[guest88]

[SI]

What does Met Gala mean?

[SI]

I had to look it up, I see. Women on parade.

I guess you're supposed to look. Or not look in a certain way. Or if you're a certain age you can only look at half dressed mostly exposed breasts a certain way, there's a way to look at half dressed mostly exposed breasts without gawking, I think. Either way if they don't like you you'll get the what're you looking at glance. Sorry I'll stop. for now.

[guest88]

With ticket prices at 35,000 per- I think it's a little dystopic for AOC to make a tax the rich fashion statement.

[Jitendra Hydonus]

With ticket prices at 35,000 per- I think it's a little dystopic for AOC to make a tax the rich fashion statement.

It is a far better gesture than absolutely anything the previous president and his followers could ever offer especially since AOC donated her ‘statement’  from it to help someone pay for holes in her roof top……

The House legislation calls for reversing a key plank of the Republicans' 2017 tax cuts by returning the top marginal income tax rate to 39.6%, up from 37%. That new top rate would apply to single filers with taxable income greater than $400,000 a year and married couples filing jointly earning more than $450,000 annually.

https://stimuluscheckup.com/2021/09/19/the-plan-would-raise-more-than-1-trillion-but-would-keep-tax-rates-the-same-for-more-than-90-of-taxpayers/

[guest88]

So what do you think about this?

Higher taxes are the most obvious and transparent price, but these are more controversial than alternatives and face resistance. Deficit spending along with the attendant inflation ends up being a tax, too. Not merely a tax, it is a transfer from those who have low wealth and who depend on wages to those who are already wealthy. The inflation that comes with deficit spending inflates the price of the wealthy’s assets, making those assets more valuable to the holders and more scarce to the buyers.

In addition to being oversold and a bit annoying, Ocasio-Cortez has a bigger problem. Like the rest of the Left, her pretensions of helping the poor through large deficit spending ends up being an act of wealth redistribution that works in reverse: shifting wealth from the poor and middle class to the rich through inflation. 

AOC’s Policies Hurt the Poor and Help the Rich
Billionaire hedge fund owners pay much less on their investment income than the salaried schlubs
https://amgreatness.com/2021/09/19/aocs-policies-hurt-the-poor-and-help-the-rich/