(08-04-2018, 03:33 PM)mikesez Wrote:

(08-04-2018, 10:44 AM)MalabarJag Wrote: The corporate tax cuts were necessary to return the US to parity with Europe. We were continually losing jobs and corporate headquarters to their lower tax rates, and revenue from corporate taxes would have declined even further without the cut. The rest of the tax cuts were revenue neutral, giving the working class a tax cut at the expense of the highly paid management class, especially those in high tax states. None of this was expected to raise tax revenues (although it may have), just to slow the decline.

The spending increase was a mistake, but we have very few Pubs (and no Dems) willing to cut spending. Because of that this has become a non-issue as far as the elections are concerned.

Back to the original topic, Ocasio-Cortez is the poster child for the pathetic lack of economic understanding from the Dems, with emphasis on the party's left wing progression into full blown Venezuelan style socialism. The Pubs have gotten lots of gifts from the Dems recently, with Hillary and AO-C the two huge gifts.

If you think anything that Ocasio-Cortez has said has anything to do with anything that's going on in Venezuela during the last 50 years, you lack understanding of one or the other.
Note I am not defending her, but, Venezuela is very much a special case. 
It would be much more correct to compare what Bernie Sanders or Ocasio-Cortez want to do to what has happened in Canada or in Mexico.