Published on Feb 1, 2019
ILHAN OMAR CALLS FOR TAX ON THE WEALTHY OF ‘UP TO 90 PER CENT’
Omar said taxes had been as high as 90 per cent before and could be once more
By George Martin
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Omar said taxes had been as high as 90 per cent before and could be once more
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It comes after freshman congresswoman Cortez called for a 70 per cent tax
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The tax reforms being proposed will fund several radical new policy initiatives
Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar has called for an income tax of up to 90 per cent on America’s multimillionaires.
Speaking to ’60 Minutes’, Omar argued that tax rates of previous years had risen to the 90 per cent mark for top earners as she doubled down on fellow freshman congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s calls for a 70 per cent rate.
‘There are a few things that we can do,’ Rep. Omar said.
‘One of them, is that we can increase the taxes that people are paying who are the extremely wealthy in our communities. So, 70 percent, 80 percent, we’ve had it as high as 90 percent. So, that’s a place we can start.’
The one percent must pay their fair share,’ she continued.
Omar claimed her radical tax plan would act as a catalyst for programs like Medicare for All and the Green New Deal being proposed by Ocasio-Cortez.
Ocasio-Cortez called for zero carbon emissions within 12 years, in an interview with ’60 Minutes’ on her first day as a member of Congress.
Omar also said she wants to slash the national defense budget in order to pay for the sweeping policy changes.
‘I’m also one that really looks at the defense budget that we have, Rep. Omar said.
‘That has increased nearly 50% since 9/11. And so, most of the money that we have in there is much more than with we spend on education, on healthcare.’
Omar proposed the radical tax reforms as a way of funding other policy initiatives such as Medicare for All and the Green New Deal
In 1960, before the Kennedy tax cuts, the top rate was 91 per cent for those earning more than $200,000. According to the Tax Policy Center, the top 1 per cent earned 9 per cent of all income at that time, compared to 20 per cent in 2008.
‘You look at our tax rates back in the ’60s and when you have a progressive tax rate system your tax rate, you know, let’s say, from zero to $75,000 may be ten percent or 15 per cent,’ she said, in a clip that aired on CBS ‘This Morning.’
‘But once you get to, like, the tippy tops – on your 10 millionth dollar – sometimes you see tax rates as high as 60 or 70 percent,’ she said.
‘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.’
I think that it only has ever been radicals that have changed this country. Abraham Lincoln made the radical decision to sign the Emancipation Proclamation.
‘Franklin Delano Roosevelt made the radical decision to embark on establishing programs like Social Security. That is radical,’ she said.
President Trump took a swipe at Cortez immediately after she proposed the tax hike, saying a 70 per cent rate would bring the turmoil of Venezuela to the US.
“We’re looking at Venezuela, it’s a very sad situation,” Trump told reporters.
“That was the richest state in all of that area, that’s a big beautiful area, and by far the richest – and now it’s one of the poorest places in the world. That’s what socialism gets you, when they want to raise your taxes to 70 percent.”
LOL! Californians may be slapped with tax on short text messages
The Californian state watchdog has proposed a new tax on text messages sent and received by mobile phone users every day. The odd measure to raise new taxes has sparked ridicule and outrage in the state.
According to the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), funds raised from the text tax will be used to help lower-income California residents to get access to telecommunications services.
The CPUC says that the fee, which would total just 70 cents for every $10 in text messages, is not going to significantly raise the monthly amount paid by consumers in the state. The group, which responsible for regulating public utilities operating in the state, claims the tax would just shift some of the charges away from voice services toward texting.
However, Bay Area Council along with other high-tech and corporate groups have raised voices against the proposal, saying that the text-messaging surcharges would cost consumers $44.5 million a year. According to the opponents, the SMS levy could be applied retroactively back as far as five years, sweeping away some $220 million.
At the same time, the industry representatives argued the state commission lacks legal grounds for introducing the tax of the kind. The wireless industry is reportedly working on a plan to prevent the measure.
“It’s a dumb idea,” said Jim Wunderman, president of the Bay Area Council business-sponsored advocacy group. “This is how conversations take place in this day and age, and it’s almost like saying there should be a tax on the conversations we have.”
Vote for the proposal was initially scheduled for this week, but the CPUC reportedly postponed it till the next month after getting a lot of push back.
“From a consumer’s point of view, surcharges may be a wash, because if more surcharge revenues come from texting services, less would be needed from voice services,” CPUC spokeswoman Constance Gordon said in a statement.
GLOBALIST ARMY: Armored Vehicles with EU FLAG Storm Paris to Quash Protests (VIDEO)
December 9, 2018
Hundreds of protesters were arrested Saturday in Paris as thousands of “yellow vest” protesters took to the street for a fourth weekend of anti-tax protests.
According to the BBC confrontations took place after 8,000 demonstrators gathered in the city centre. More than 500 1,000 people were taken into custody.
The French authorities sent in EU armored vehicles!
The Macron government sent in the EU armored vehicles to quash the anti-tax protesters!
This was a stunning development for the EU — a globalist army!
Here’s more video…
The vehicles were firing on the people!
FRENCH POLICE WARN OF LOSS OF LIFE – Ahead of Anti-Macron Protests
December 7, 2018
The head of a French police union has expressed fears that this weekend’s anti-government protests could see the deaths of both protestors and law enforcement on the streets of Paris.
Exhausted and over-stretched units struggling to maintain order will be compelled to defend themselves from rioters and looters, Yves Lefebvre told BFMTV earlier this week, raising the possibility of lives being lost if police are forced to act in ”a state of legitimate self defense.”
Calling on President Emmanuel Macron to take concrete measures to diffuse escalating tensions, the head of the Unité SGP Police union spoke of CRS (French riot police) commandants’ fears of losing men if the situation degrades further, and of the possibility of loss of life amongst protestors.
Billed as ‘Act IV‘ by Gilets jaunes (Yellow vest) organizers, the fourth consecutive weekend of protest planned for the French capital is taking shape as tens of thousands of hi-vis wearing citizens organize via social media to attend anti-Macron events, primarily a march between the Place de la Bastille and Place de la République but also at the Champs Élysée, the Eiffel Tower and the Élysée Palace.
Meanwhile, another union, VIGI – Ministère de l’Intérieur, representing police and support staff, has called for strike action commencing this weekend in solidarity with anti-government protestors.
A spokesman for the union has expressed concerns that there could be loss of life amidst the ranks of its members, calling on police to stand down rather than face injury or death in clashes with the public.
”Don’t let yourself be injured, scarred or killed for those that consider you canon fodder”, the extraordinary statement continued. ”Think of you, your families and those close to you.”
Encompassing myriad issues beyond fuel tax hikes, the Gilets jaunes are calling for the introduction of a citizens’ referendum initiative into the French Constitution. The insertion of such a provision would allow for citizens to propose legislation, to overturn unpopular laws, and to have the power to recall politicians via plebiscite.
Measures announced by the government earlier this week, which included a delay by one year of the introduction of new carbon taxes, appear to have aggravated disenfranchised French citizens and were quickly characterized as ”crumbs” insufficient to calm public anger.
Paramedics, farmers and truck drivers have in recent days announced strike actions, and French social media is awash with images of ongoing blockades and protests across the country. Multiple events, some using imagery from the French Revolution, are being organized for strategic locations across the capital, with such themes as ”Macron’s Farewell Party” and ”To Arms, citizens!”
A leading figure within the Gilets jaunes, Eric Drouet, has called for protestors to march on the Élysée Palace, home of President Macron, prompting further fears of confrontation with police, some 8,000 of whom will be mobilized in Paris over the weekend. Another member of the movement has called for the dissolution of the Assemblée nationale, the French parliament.
According to Paris daily, L’Express, CRS units have been given the order to fire tear gas grenades directly into crowds rather than to ground. ”It’s the first time that I received such an order. Normally this is prohibited”, a CRS source explained to the newspaper.
Paris museums, theatres and cultural attractions will close this weekend. French Prime Minister, Edouard Philippe, confirmed Thursday that twelve armored vehicles belonging to the Gendarmerie will be in use across the city.
In spite of the violence, largely condemned across French society, a recent IFOP survey puts support of the Gilets jaunes at 72%, a sign of a widespread public disaffection with the country’s political class.
”The genie is out of the bottle, I think”, Anne-Laure, from Paris told The Gateway Pundit. The 29 year-old admitted to having some reservations about Saturday;
”I’m a little worried”, she confessed, ”but I think those running France into the ground, at this moment they are more worried.”
Paris abandons fuel tax hike after sweeping protests – French PM
The French government says it has dropped the fuel tax hike plan that has sparked massive Yellow Vests protests and eventually got suspended with a half-year moratorium Tuesday – at least for the 2019 budget.
“The government is ready for dialogue and is showing it because this tax increase has been dropped from the 2019 budget bill,” French Prime Minister Edouard Philippe told the lower house of parliament Wednesday.
Philippe did not clarify whether Paris might re-introduce the hike in a budget update later in 2019.
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Selfie while Paris burns? Woman’s Burger King snap ‘captures spirit of the era’
The moment was captured by Russian journalist and photographer Ilya Varlamov. © Ilya Varlamov
As “urban warfare” grips the streets of Paris a photograph of a woman in a Burger King, who is incongruously grinning from ear to ear while tear gas swirls outside, is being hailed as the perfect encapsulation of modern times.
The French capital has seen a wave of protests, riots and looting in recent days after Yellow Vest demonstrations against tax hikes turned violent.
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CRS riot police used water cannons and tear gas in a bid to quell, what the head of the Alliance police union, Frederic Lagache, called “insurrectional climate.”
However, all of that appeared to be of little concern to the woman who was snapped happily surveying the scene from inside the fast-food outlet while seemingly taking pictures on her smartphone.
READ MORE: WATCH French students gripped by Yellow Vest protest spirit OVERTURN cars in Toulouse
Clouds of teargas, the masked man, the Burger King signage and the woman’s toothy smile give the striking scene a baroque feel and it has clearly struck a chord with many as the photo garnered more than 120,000 Reddit upvotes and nearly 4,000 comments in one day.
The moment was captured by Russian journalist and photographer Ilya Varlamov. “Rarely does a photo so accurately capture the spirit of an era,” the viral Reddit post reads.
Naturally Redditors took to memeifying the picture and it was quickly incorporated into various pieces of art such as the Banksy self shredding painting and Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks. Elon Musk smoking a joint also got a run out.
READ MORE: Trump hijacks ‘Yellow vest’ protest to praise himself for ditching Paris climate deal
Burger King has now been the backdrop for at least two viral incidents during the unrest in Paris. Riot police were also filmed using a considerable amount of force on several Yellow Vests who were in a branch of the restaurant in the French capital.
“The demonstrators obviously forced the entrance, because the Burger King was closed, and the door was damaged when we entered,” a photographer who witnessed the incident said to Liberation.
“We enter the Burger King with about fifteen Yellow Vests, everyone suffocates, I vomit almost, so the air was loaded with tear gas. The manager passes us bottles of water so that we can rinse the face. The time to catch our breath, we see the CRS surround the Burger King. We lift our press card in the air.
They took out the protesters one by one through the entrance of the Burger King, and we saw the CRS beat all those who went out.
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