{"id":85301,"date":"2019-02-28T19:30:57","date_gmt":"2019-02-28T23:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=85301"},"modified":"2019-02-28T17:31:04","modified_gmt":"2019-02-28T21:31:04","slug":"just-gobsmacked-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=85301","title":{"rendered":"Just Gobsmacked Again."},"content":{"rendered":"
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This cropped up while I was perusing stuff elsewhere. This is Ms. Googly Eyes in interviews with two different people.<\/p>\n

Her understanding of labor and taxes and real world stuff is plainly foggy at best, and nonexistent at its worst. Holy crap!\u00a0 She thinks people work 100 hours a week? On what planet? She says so: \u201cIf you work 100 hours a week and can\u2019t feed your family\u2026.\u201d What??? Who does she know that puts in that level of hours per week?\u00a0 I\u2019ve worked some pretty stiff overtime when my job required it, but it was always calculated into my paycheck. I cannot think of anyone except firefighters who might put in that kind of weekly hours, and even they don\u2019t generally do that, but they do get paid for OT. This is a federal law.<\/p>\n

The level of pure ignorance on her part is appalling. It\u2019s worse when she\u2019s asked direct questions and evades them with buzzword-laden answers. It does not matter that these interviews are from last year. What matters is that she has little to no understanding of the subject being addressed, nor does she answer questions directly. She changes the subject when someone pins her down, For example, I have no idea why she resents people who use helicopters for quick, direct transportation, but it’s apparent that she resents it because they are billionaires.\u00a0 She says so twice in this video, in two different videos.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5sMZNcxdoCA<\/a><\/p>\n

The video is an eye-opener, in regard to AOC\u2019s ignorance of the labor market and the requirements regarding such nominal things as overtime hours (any hours OVER 40 hours per week) and the minimum wage. She is completely clueless. She buzzes right past the questions that both interviewers ask, instead of addressing the subject matter directly. She fails to acknowledge overtime pay, which is required by law in all 57 states. She clearly has no real idea what the real law is on the minimum wage. There are state laws as well as a Federal law in regard to that subject. She does not acknowledge any of that, but rather, brushes right past it. Where is she getting information that says either Amazon ($15\/hr) or Walmart (minimum wage at very least) is not even paying the minimum wage? She has ZERO BACKUP FOR WHAT SHE SAYS. It is hogwash.<\/p>\n

She also indicates clearly that she fails to understand the tax system. She doesn\u2019t differentiate between earned income<\/em>, which is taxed at a different rate than unearned or ordinary income<\/em>, and includes the Social Security tax in its tax schedule. Unearned income encompasses such things as investment dividends and interest payments received on financial items such as bonds and CDs, and is taxed at a flat rate.\u00a0\u00a0If you are in the one of the two lowest brackets (10% and 15%), there is no income tax on dividends. For the higher brackets the rate is\u00a015%<\/b>, and for the highest bracket (39.6%) the rate is\u00a020%<\/b>. And the IRS is now differentiating between a child’s unearned income and an adult’s.<\/p>\n

Earned income, whether from your own business or your employer, is taxed at a progressive rate. And in regard to receiving Social Security Retirement Income<\/em>, it is taxed at 50% of the annual amount received. The IRS has, for 2018r, changed the standard deductible to a flat rate of $12,000 for individuals. Check your 1040 form for that info.<\/p>\n

And furthermore, Investors Business Daily offers a better idea, here:\u00a0\u00a0Ocasio-Cortez also wants to hike the federal corporate tax rate from 21% to 28%. But wait a minute. The corporate income tax rate in the UK is only 19%. In Finland, it’s 20%. The rate is 22% in Sweden and 23% in Norway.<\/p>\n

When you count state corporate income taxes, the average tax on corporate profits in the U.S. \u00a0is currently 25.7%, according to the Tax Foundation. So instead of calling for a hike, Ocasio-Cortez should be calling for\u00a0further cuts\u00a0<\/em>in the corporate tax rate to bring them in line with her “socialist” role models. – IBD – 01-07-2019\u00a0 https:\/\/www.investors.com\/politics\/editorials\/ocasio-cortez-socialism-norway-sweden-venezuela\/<\/a><\/p>\n

What\u2019s the problem? The problem is that she is utterly ignorant about all of this<\/em>. All that she says – all of it<\/em> — is based on zero information, with no understanding of what they represent. Zero. Zip. Nada. Rien. These are\u00a0not<\/em> the only subjects she fails to address directly when she is asked direct questions. When someone does not even understand federal and state laws on minimum wages, which are the same for part-time as they are for full-time workers, and makes public statements that validate her utter ignorance about that and a LOT of other things, she should not agree to be interviewed by people who take these things seriously.<\/p>\n

Anyone who thinks this level of ignorance should be tolerated plays right into the hands of this out-of-touch individual.\u00a0It is obvious that she is completely, perhaps intentionally, ignorant about a lot of things. If all she has to offer is buzzwords, with hyperbolic language to stir the pot, and provides no substance to her responses, she is an emptier vessel than a plastic milk carton. And that\u2019s saying something.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This cropped up while I was perusing stuff elsewhere. This is Ms. Googly Eyes in interviews … Just Gobsmacked Again.<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":653,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[209,213],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teh-stoopid","category-your-tax-dollars-at-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/653"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}