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The President was all over Primetime TV last night. Why do wealthy politicians build walls,

fences and gates around their homes? They don't build walls because they hate the people on the

outside, but because they love the people on the inside. But his address was almost immediately

overshadowed by Chuck Nancy awkwardly sharing a podium during their rebuttal.

Congressmember Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was also on Primetime TV this week.

Tonight on 60 Minutes. And she said something that people still haven't stopped talking about.

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 10% or 15%, etc. 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%,

that doesn't mean all 10 million dollars are taxed at an extremely high rate, but it means that as you

climb up this ladder, you should be contributing more. And cue the freak out in 3, 2, 1.

I strongly disagree with this idea that you should just confiscate all the money or most of the

money that people make. If you want to find out how to tell people not to make a lot of money,

you take 80% of what they make and tell them that we're taking it all and they won't do it.

So now she wants to confiscate what would be the equivalent if you lived in her state in New York

of 85 cents of every dollar. It turns out a lot of people don't really understand how taxes work.

They really don't. What became clear just looking around the comments and the way people are

framing this idea was people really thought that it meant she wanted to tax everyone's income

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