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In reply to the discussion: So Ocasio-Cortez has not even taken office, and she's already planning [View all]Gothmog
(145,210 posts)The real world is a nice place. Tapper read the studies being cited and actually understood the concepts and facts being cited. Tapper asked questions based on these facts and AOC did not answer these questions. It is clear to me that you have not read the material and you are totally wrong in your claims. American may pay $34 trillion for health care but that does not mean that the federal government can assume that obligation and undertake these payments without raising taxes by this amount. Watch the Tapper interview. That is the question that Tapper asked AOC and AOC tried to use magical cost savings to explain how she was gong to pay for this program. Tapper correctly cited the facts and I am glad that you have admitted that Tapper was right and that AOC was wrong.
As for raising taxes, there is a reason why sanders has utterly and completely failed in getting Vermont to adopt his magical single payer plan. The real world is a nice place but magic does not work. If magic did work, then sanders magical single payer plan would have been adopted.
Tapper asked AOC how she was going to pay for her programs. These programs would cost $40 trillion and she only identified $2 trillion in new governmental revenue. If AOC had admitted that for these programs to be adopted, we would to raise another $38 billion in tax revenues, then Tapper would have stopped. Instead of answering Tapper's question, AOC lied about how these programs could be paid for and claimed that magical hypothetical societal savings are the same as tax revenues and would pay for these programs. AOC should had admitted just as you just did that AOC and sanders want to raise an additional $40 trillion in taxes to pay for these programs.
Magic does not work in the real world. Magical societal savings are not tax revenues. I am glad that you admit that to adopt AOC's programs an additional $40 trillion in new taxes are needed. I like living in the real world where magic does not work and where governments cannot spend magical hypothetical societal savings.
Again, Tapper was correct. AOC did not explain how she was going to pay for her programs. Tapper used facts and these facts were totally correct. Thank you for admitting that Tapper was correct