Following AOC Off the Cliff

For John, BLUF:  I feel like the left disrespects not only my opinions, but my right to an opinion.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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25 Questions for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Here is the sub-headline:

You can’t be morally right and factually wrong at the same time.  That’s a big problem for socialists

From The Federalist, Senior Editor David Harsanyi, 24 January 2019.

Here are three excerpted paragraphs:

For instance, has anyone ever asked Ocasio-Cortez if, generally speaking, she believes a billionaire-free Cuban system that ostensibly offers free health care, guaranteed housing, a free education, and greater income equality is preferable to the United States’s vulgar, capitalistic model? If not, why not?

After all, what guiding ideological principle stops Ocasio-Cortez from supporting confiscatory policies? Why not nationalize the fossil fuel industry? This is our last chance to save humanity, after all. If she really believes the fight against climate change is analogous to the war against fascism — a war that cost the lives of somewhere around 80 million people worldwide — then why wouldn’t she propose taxing the wealthy at 50 or 60 percent across the board? If income inequality and concentrated wealth are a problem almost as dangerous as climate change, would she be negligent if she failed to support those policies?

That is, of course, the end goal. Ocasio-Cortez, like many others, likes to claim that the rich do not pay their “fair share.” Right now, the top 50 percent of taxpayers pay around 97 percent of all individual income taxes. The top 1 percent paid a greater share of individual income taxes than the bottom 90 percent combined. Has anyone asked Ocasio-Cortez what a reasonable percentage would be for them to contribute to the common good? Ninety-five percent? Ninety-nine?

InstaPundit Blogger Stephen Green notes:

What Ocasio-Cortez genuinely gives “zero [concern]” about is your cisnormative reality-based values system, hater.

Hat tip to the InstaPundit.

Regards  —  Cliff