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Re:Ocasio-Cortez Says 70% Ultra-Rich Tax Could Pay for Clima... by kansface on Friday January 04, 2019 @04:02PM (#18827577)
> income tax rates under Eisenhower were as high as 90 percent.

Climate change is not WWII.

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Re:Ocasio-Cortez Says 70% Ultra-Rich Tax Could Pay for Clima... by kenforthewin on Friday January 04, 2019 @04:04PM (#18827594)
You're right - the stakes are much higher with climate change.
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Re:Ocasio-Cortez Says 70% Ultra-Rich Tax Could Pay for Clima... by kansface on Friday January 04, 2019 @04:09PM (#18827640)
Sure, but they are not imminent (what is the pearl harbor of climate change?). Further, climate change is highly politicized whereas WWII mobilized the entire country in purpose.
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Re:Ocasio-Cortez Says 70% Ultra-Rich Tax Could Pay for Clima... by InitialLastName on Friday January 04, 2019 @05:01PM (#18828086)
> what is the pearl harbor of climate change?

I'd say Katrina, Sandy, Irene, Maria, Camp, Woolsey, and Mendocino, but if you're not convinced already you'll never be.

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Re:Ocasio-Cortez Says 70% Ultra-Rich Tax Could Pay for Clima... by sierdolij on Friday January 04, 2019 @05:02PM (#18828093)
Disclaimer: I'm apolitical because right/left is divide-and-conquer, divided-we-fall noise.

Climate change shouldn't be political or some far-off hypothetical.. no propaganda, rationalization or BS can deny the mountain of evidence that it's an immediate, existential threat that demands immediate, decisive action on the decatrillion-dollar moonshot scale (roughly the total, multi-decade cost of Iraq & Afghanistan).

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Re:Ocasio-Cortez Says 70% Ultra-Rich Tax Could Pay for Clima... by Daishiman on Friday January 04, 2019 @04:03PM (#18827588)
No, it is actually much, much worse.
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Re:Ocasio-Cortez Says 70% Ultra-Rich Tax Could Pay for Clima... by kuhhk on Friday January 04, 2019 @07:12PM (#18828983)
> income tax rates under Eisenhower were as high as 90 percent. > Climate change is not WWII.

The sentence you highlighted has nothing to do with WWII.

Eisenhower was president from 1953 to 1961.

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