Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Does Twitter Real Good Again, So That's A Surprise!

Teach your children class warfare.

Now that he's no longer weighed down by the burdens of running a state into the ground, former Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (isn't that a fun phrase?) is trying his hand at Twitter punditry. And if he keeps at it, he has the potential to be the next Mike Huckabee! Here's former Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (just rolls off the tongue!) lying about how taxes work to a hypothetical class of little children. (As best we can tell, he didn't actually visit any schools this week, so real children are safe.)

Explaining tax rates before Reagan to 5th graders: “Imagine if you did chores for your grandma and she gave you $10… https://t.co/GbHGIUEQzY

— Scott Walker (@Scott Walker) 1547566748.0 

Of course, that's not how marginal tax rates work, and never was, even before Ronald Reagan. Back in the 1950s, when the top marginal rate was 91 percent, it didn't apply to all income, but rather only to income over $200,000 a year -- the equivalent of about $2 million today, and not that many people actually paid it.

Now, despite Walker's invocation of Reagan, it's clear he's actually lying about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's proposal to set the top marginal rate at 70 percent . We happen to have AOC right here. And former Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker knows nothing of her work.

Explaining marginal taxes to a far-right former Governor: Imagine if you did chores for abuela & she gave you $10.… https://t.co/2UtidCC6LD

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez) 1547577667.0 

See? "You get to keep it, BECAUSE IT'S ONLY TEN DOLLARS." And the children would all say that's fair, and look funny at the weasel-faced guy who had lied to them.

Also, it is evil to try to convince children to believe the super-rich should be objects of pity. They should instead be eaten. Or rather, mulched, for environmental and health reasons.

@Lollardfish Someone pointed out that due to biomagnification of toxins being concentrated in predators going up th… https: //t.co/AOEHle1FOq

— outrageoboros (@outrageoboros) 1547489893.0 

And there was rejoicing ("Yay").

And more rejoicing for this, your OPEN THREAD.

[ Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter / The Tax Foundation ]

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