First they came for my income, then they came for my investments; now they're coming for my mileage

The bipartisan [as in RINOs+Dems] infrastructure package, so lengthy that one needs to Pelosi the bill before you can see what's in it, may have gone too far even for Babblin' Biden. It is buried inside the bill, around page 500, and is the Biden 'red line'  that opens the way for taxing PERSONAL VEHICLE MILEAGE!

Sorry for yelling.

Sen. Bill Cassidy, one of the lawmakers who worked on the bipartisan infrastructure package, gives details about the bill and discusses vaccination rates. So now everything is considered infrastructure, including vaccinations, just like everything is racist, including every Trump voter and every white person in the world.

Although President Biden repeatedly babbled and objected to a national gas tax hike to fund the bipartisan infrastructural package, the $1 trillion bill unveiled by the Senate this week includes a national motor vehicle per-mile user fee pilot program that may violate one of his biggest "red lines." But when it comes to 'red lines,' Biden has white paint to fix the problem.

The nice old man we pretend is running the country isn't so nice once you get to know him. He protects his China investments using his drug-addled son as his bag man. 

He made campaign promises that he would not hike taxes for Americans earning less than $400,000 and he lied about that. 

He said he drove an '18-wheeler' to see Nelson Mandela, but he never did. He lied about being arrested for trying to visit Mandela, which is balderdash. 

He said he worked in an anthracite coal mine--a lie. 

Biden even said the new Georgia voting law prevents working people from getting to the polls before they get off work. Big lie. And he said that if you get vaccinated, you can't get covid. Guess what--that isn't true.

Now despite his pledge to not raise taxes on the middle class, the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act – which the Senate could pass as early as this week – leaves open the possibility of a tax that's tethered to personal vehicle mileage. This punitive pilot program is outlined in section 13002 of the bill,  and would charge citizens based on vehicle miles traveled. Imagine how that would affect prices of goods delivered by the trucking industry.

The 2,702-page bill directs Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg to provide recommendations to Congress within three years of the pilot program's establishment, at which time lawmakers could choose whether or not to pass new legislation taxing miles-per-vehicle in order to fund the infrastructure overhaul.

If this goes through the Senate and passes, I hope every Republican on board with this garbage is voted out of office.  

The program would target passenger motor vehicles driven by ordinary people just trying to get from point A to point B; light trucks and medium- and heavy-duty trucks that deliver goods and provide services. All prices for goods and services delivered by trucks will have to increase, if you know anything about economics. 

If the GOP cannot win back the House and Senate next year, and the presidency in 2024, the nation will deserve to be run by the dictatorial Democrats.

But I have faith in the country and suspect the Left will be handed their collective butts in the next go-around.

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Ilhan Omar would tax the wealthy up to 90 percent

The socialist philosophy warns that if you're rich and successful they'll make you pay taxes through the nose so they can feel good about themselves. And they don't care who gets hurt by their socialist ideas, even their constituents, as we've seen with the Amazon clusterf**k and AOC, which would have provided 25,000 jobs at $150,000 on average if the deal was accepted.

Ocasio-Cortez didn't like that a huge e-commerce company was going to be given a tax break and using her lack of knowledge in economics, her college major, believes the city is saving the money they were offering in the deal.

Anti-Semitic freshman Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) floated the idea of taxing the wealthy at a rate of up to 90 percent. She is joining her fellow Democrats pushing for much higher rates on the top bracket to pay for sought-after programs like "Medicare-for-all."

In an interview this week on “Through Her Eyes,” [in Omar's case the show should be called "Light Through Her Ears"] a new weekly show on Roku, Ilhan, suggested “a few things” that need to change when looking to pay for high-cost programs.

“One of them is that we can increase the taxes that people are paying who are the extremely wealthy in our communities,” she explained. “So, 70 percent, 80 percent, we’ve had it as high as 90 percent. So, that’s a place we can start.”

And these extremely wealthy people are in their financial position because they're too stupid to leave town or hide their money, right?

She then added: “The one percent must pay their fair share,” as if they don't pay the bulk of taxes already. But even if they paid all the money they make and keep none for themselves, [which I suspect she'd love], it still wouldn't cover the cost of programs and the national debt.

Omar also discussed her thinking regarding taxes on the wealthy during an appearance Thursday on “The Daily Show” with Trevor Noah, a guy as bright as a black hole.

“America has money. ... We don’t have a problem of scarcity really. What we have is a problem of moral courage. Our budgets are supposed to be an example of our moral values, and so this is why I got on the Budget Committee because I’m excited to make sure that we have a budget that’s reflective of our values,” Omar bloviated.

Omar talking about morals is an oxymoron. She would be delighted to see Israel and the Jews therein to be wiped out, and she makes this clear over and over while the Democrats forgive her after her insincere apologies are mouthed.

She added: “We need to make sure that we’re holding the special interest accountable, that we’re getting money out of politics, that we are taxing the uber-rich, that the one percent pays their fair share.”

That doesn't sound constitutional, and it certainly isn't a fair share--that would be everyone paying the same percentage of tax, like a tithe.

The Democrats, the party of envy with the immorality to take what isn't theirs and to punish success.

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Alexandria Occasionally-Conscious-Cortex suggests taxing wealthy up to 70% but . . .

New York Democratic Socialist Rep. Alexandria Occasionally-Conscious-Cortex made the bold statement back in December on social media that lawmakers should refuse to get paid during the partial government shutdown. But she refuses to say if the same rule applies to her as the New York Post reports.

When she was asked Thursday about receiving her congressional salary, the braintrust for the Democratic Party apparently had other things on her mind, running down a Capitol Hill hallway and telling the reporter, “I’ve gotta run!”

The recently sworn-in socialist not from the Bronx tweeted:

It’s completely unacceptable that members of Congress can force a government shutdown on partisan lines & then have Congressional salaries exempt from that decision. 

Have some integrity. https://t.co/BgueNNjf0f

Cortez recently sat with a sobered-up Anderson Cooper for Sunday's "60 Minutes" interview, a portion of which has been released as a promotion. 

Showing off her mime routine:
"Stuck in glass cage"

In the released segment, she reveals how exactly she suggests paying for the environmental agenda known as the “Green New Deal” — with remarkably higher tax rates for the super wealthy.

The cute little genius suggests in the clip that people should be doing more to pay their “fair share.” The top earners in the country already pay over 80 percent of the taxes. What would fair be to her? 

When Cooper pressed on how she could possibly pay for the deal, she pointed to the progressive tax rate system in the 1960s, explaining that if you earn 0 to $75,000 a year, you would only pay 10% or 15% in income tax.

She rambled on:

“But once you get to the tippie tops, on your $10 millionth, sometimes you see tax rates as high as 60% or 70%. That doesn’t mean all $10 million are taxed at an extremely high rate. But it means that as you climb up this ladder, you should be contributing more,” she said, trying to explain a progressive tax system, which the United States has and is the only nation in the world that actually does. 

To impose an even greater tax burden on the "tippie top" is immoral. If you want to pay your "fair share," in my estimation, it would be that everyone should pay the same percentage rate and nobody is excluded. Everyone has "skin in the game."

Cooper replied that Occasionally-Conscious was proposing a “radical agenda.”

“If that’s what radical means, call me a radical,” she said.

If that's what it takes to be a radical cretin, then call her a radical cretin.

Well here we are in the start of a new year and the world still hasn't come to an end with President Trump in the White House, in spite of what the media and the left [but I repeat myself] would have you believe. 

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Ocasio-Cortez calling the kettle 'black' saying the right is 'holding the country hostage'

Democratic congressional candidate and Economics 101 dropout Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez may have a mental illness characterized by the psychological defense mechanism known as projection. She said in an interview that the Democratic Party could not compromise with the "insane people" [there goes the projection] on the right holding the country "hostage."

She apparently doesn't understand the word 'hostage.' You cannot hold an inanimate thing hostage.

When asked by Vanity Fair how she intended to balance her quest for rapid progressive [read: socialist] change with the need on Capitol Hill to compromise, the wild-eyed weirdo said that Democrats too often compromise even before getting to the table.

Ocasio-Cortez was describing how Antifa bends over backwards to compromise with conservatives, and how the Democrats are compromising with Republicans over the confirmation hearing of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.

Ocasio-Cortez is out of her freaking mind but believes it's Republicans who are the crazy ones--projection in its highest form.

"When you're dealing with these insane people holding the country hostage on the right, you can't go in with your end point. You have to go in with a strong position," she pontificated, as if she had an inkling of what she was talking about. "If they're trying to end Planned Parenthood, I don't think we go in with, 'No, let's keep Planned Parenthood.' I think we go in with, 'Let's expand women's rights to health care and have it guaranteed in every state.' I think we can compromise on our tactics and how we get there, but we can't compromise where we're going."

And where she wants us to go is to a socialist government that takes over all industry and health care, and funds the private sector out of remaining the private sector.

Showing her math skills once again, she said she's "a thousand percent" committed to helping Democrats [read 'socialists'] win the House, calling it "existential for the country," meaning that if they don't win it, the country will not exist, everyone will die, and Trump should be impeached because she doesn't like him.

"We are living in a world where impeachment is a realistic possibility," she said, referring, of course, to the historically recent impeachment of Bill Clinton for sexual misconduct. "We're going to square up on Medicare for all. There are certain issues where I'm going to make some Democrats mad if they're trying to deliver paydays for Wall Street donors. But that doesn't mean I'm going to burn the house down over it."

She needs to get over herself. She isn't all that powerful like she believes herself to be.

Her victory in the November midterms is practically assured because the 14th District in New York City is so Democratic there's a donkey [aka: ass] wherever you look.

Ocasio-Cortez is a 28-year-old democratic socialist [aka: socialist] with an IQ that matches her age. She came onto the national scene in June after beating Rep. Joe Crowley (D-NY) a lazy campaigner like Hillary Clinton, in the primary.

But to nobody's surprise on the right, she screwed up several times in interviews showing her lack of knowledge about actual issues over which she bloviates such as, unemployment, health care, the Middle East and the existence of the upper middle class. She has also lied about her background and cannot be trusted.

She even believes that Supreme Court justices get 'inaugurated' rather than confirmed.

But this is what the Democratic Party has come to.

Ironically, but again, not surprisingly, Ocasio-Cortez's views have changed now that she is in the political spotlight, especially her views on raising taxes, since her platform involves taking more hard-earned money from successful business owners and giving it to people who did not earn it.

In 2012 she was running her own business, Brook Avenue Press, an incorporated publishing firm for children's books, set in the Bronx. As an owner of the business she came out in full support of a bill that would give tax deductions for business start-up costs, arguing that taxes directly impacted her business profits.

But all that makes her is a typical self-serving politician in the mold of a Hillary Clinton or a Nancy Pelosi.

She's only a democratic socialist when it doesn't involve a loss for herself. That make her a hypocrite too.


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