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On this podcast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTZzXzRCA50&t=1s
AOC declared "You can't earn a billion dollars."

AOC strictly defines work as blue-collar work. She doesn't mention white
collar work, doctors and nurses, teachers, etc.

Despite AOC's understanding of economics and what the tax code says, the business owner and the factory owner works. The capital in the factory,
the tools, production line, trucks, warehouses, industrial buildings,
all came from past labor. One has savings and is equipping a business
hoping for a return on investment and will start the business if it is
believed that the return can be higher than the rate of interest earned elsewhere.

Everything came from work. What does not come from work is land.
Certainly, much of the wealth of extremely wealthy people comes from
land, but the rest of it came from their work. Running a business is
real work. Hiring people. Making business plans and implementing them.

Microsoft is an industry, so Bill Gates' base fortune came from work.
The rest came from his investments in land.

Jeff Bezos got pissed and had someone write an anti-AOC editorial. I'll
cite it but it's paywalled. I pay Bezos enough when I shop at Whole
Paycheck.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/05/07/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-is-wrong-about-billionaires/

She came to Chicago for an Institute of Politics interview at University
of Chicago and defended the remarks. UofC was founded by John D.
Rockefeller and the interview was in front of an audience in Rockefeller Chapel.

Trib wrote ths editorial, not paywalled

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez stands by her comments that 'You can't earn a
billion dollars' during Chicago event https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/05/08/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-david-axelrod-uchicago/
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On May 10, 2026 at 5:05:15 PM PDT, ""Adam H. Kerman"" <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:

On this podcast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTZzXzRCA50&t=1s
AOC declared "You can't earn a billion dollars."

AOC strictly defines work as blue-collar work. She doesn't mention white collar work, doctors and nurses, teachers, etc.

Despite AOC's understanding of economics and what the tax code says, the business owner and the factory owner works. The capital in the factory,
the tools, production line, trucks, warehouses, industrial buildings,
all came from past labor. One has savings and is equipping a business
hoping for a return on investment and will start the business if it is believed that the return can be higher than the rate of interest earned elsewhere.

Everything came from work. What does not come from work is land.
Certainly, much of the wealth of extremely wealthy people comes from
land, but the rest of it came from their work. Running a business is
real work. Hiring people. Making business plans and implementing them.

Microsoft is an industry, so Bill Gates' base fortune came from work.
The rest came from his investments in land.

Jeff Bezos got pissed and had someone write an anti-AOC editorial. I'll
cite it but it's paywalled. I pay Bezos enough when I shop at Whole
Paycheck.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/05/07/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-is-wrong-about-billionaires/

She came to Chicago for an Institute of Politics interview at University
of Chicago and defended the remarks. UofC was founded by John D.
Rockefeller and the interview was in front of an audience in Rockefeller Chapel.

Trib wrote ths editorial, not paywalled

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez stands by her comments that 'You can't earn a billion dollars' during Chicago event

https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/05/08/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-david-axelrod-uchicago/

So where's the line between an earned salary and an unearned salary? She said you can earn $100,000 but not $1 billion.

So somewhere between those two numbers is the line between earned and
unearned. She's been challenged to specify that line but she keeps dodging the question.


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BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:

On May 10, 2026 at 5:05:15 PM PDT, ""Adam H. Kerman"" <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:

On this podcast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTZzXzRCA50&t=1s
AOC declared "You can't earn a billion dollars."

AOC strictly defines work as blue-collar work. She doesn't mention white
collar work, doctors and nurses, teachers, etc.

Despite AOC's understanding of economics and what the tax code says, the
business owner and the factory owner works. The capital in the factory,
the tools, production line, trucks, warehouses, industrial buildings,
all came from past labor. One has savings and is equipping a business
hoping for a return on investment and will start the business if it is
believed that the return can be higher than the rate of interest earned
elsewhere.

Everything came from work. What does not come from work is land.
Certainly, much of the wealth of extremely wealthy people comes from
land, but the rest of it came from their work. Running a business is
real work. Hiring people. Making business plans and implementing them.

Microsoft is an industry, so Bill Gates' base fortune came from work.
The rest came from his investments in land.

Jeff Bezos got pissed and had someone write an anti-AOC editorial. I'll
cite it but it's paywalled. I pay Bezos enough when I shop at Whole
Paycheck.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/05/07/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-is-wrong-about-billionaires/

She came to Chicago for an Institute of Politics interview at University
of Chicago and defended the remarks. UofC was founded by John D.
Rockefeller and the interview was in front of an audience in Rockefeller
Chapel.

Trib wrote ths editorial, not paywalled

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez stands by her comments that 'You can't earn a
billion dollars' during Chicago event

https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/05/08/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-david-axelrod-uchicago/

So where's the line between an earned salary and an unearned salary? She said >you can earn $100,000 but not $1 billion.

Let's take her at her word! Anything above low-wage blue collar work. If
she would solve the wealth gap with confiscatory personal property
taxes, then all those fancy clothes gifted to her should be taken.

So somewhere between those two numbers is the line between earned and >unearned. She's been challenged to specify that line but she keeps
dodging the question.

Not to mention, her complaints about billionaires don't include J.B.
Pritzker.
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On 2026-05-10 8:05 p.m., Adam H. Kerman wrote:

On this podcast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTZzXzRCA50&t=1s
AOC declared "You can't earn a billion dollars."

AOC strictly defines work as blue-collar work. She doesn't mention white collar work, doctors and nurses, teachers, etc.

Despite AOC's understanding of economics and what the tax code says, the business owner and the factory owner works. The capital in the factory,
the tools, production line, trucks, warehouses, industrial buildings,
all came from past labor. One has savings and is equipping a business
hoping for a return on investment and will start the business if it is believed that the return can be higher than the rate of interest earned elsewhere.

Everything came from work. What does not come from work is land.
Certainly, much of the wealth of extremely wealthy people comes from
land, but the rest of it came from their work. Running a business is
real work. Hiring people. Making business plans and implementing them.

Microsoft is an industry, so Bill Gates' base fortune came from work.
The rest came from his investments in land.

Jeff Bezos got pissed and had someone write an anti-AOC editorial. I'll
cite it but it's paywalled. I pay Bezos enough when I shop at Whole
Paycheck.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/05/07/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-is-wrong-about-billionaires/

She came to Chicago for an Institute of Politics interview at University
of Chicago and defended the remarks. UofC was founded by John D.
Rockefeller and the interview was in front of an audience in Rockefeller Chapel.

Trib wrote ths editorial, not paywalled

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez stands by her comments that 'You can't earn a billion dollars' during Chicago event https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/05/08/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-david-axelrod-uchicago/

I'd love to put the idiot AOC up against Konstantin Kisin in a debate.
He'd mop the floor with her as we can see in this short video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2W2TbUSuhs [5 minutes]
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On 2026-05-10 10:44 p.m., Adam H. Kerman wrote:

BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:

On May 10, 2026 at 5:05:15 PM PDT, ""Adam H. Kerman"" <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:

On this podcast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTZzXzRCA50&t=1s
AOC declared "You can't earn a billion dollars."

AOC strictly defines work as blue-collar work. She doesn't mention white >>> collar work, doctors and nurses, teachers, etc.

Despite AOC's understanding of economics and what the tax code says, the >>> business owner and the factory owner works. The capital in the factory,
the tools, production line, trucks, warehouses, industrial buildings,
all came from past labor. One has savings and is equipping a business
hoping for a return on investment and will start the business if it is
believed that the return can be higher than the rate of interest earned
elsewhere.

Everything came from work. What does not come from work is land.
Certainly, much of the wealth of extremely wealthy people comes from
land, but the rest of it came from their work. Running a business is
real work. Hiring people. Making business plans and implementing them.

Microsoft is an industry, so Bill Gates' base fortune came from work.
The rest came from his investments in land.

Jeff Bezos got pissed and had someone write an anti-AOC editorial. I'll
cite it but it's paywalled. I pay Bezos enough when I shop at Whole
Paycheck.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/05/07/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-is-wrong-about-billionaires/

She came to Chicago for an Institute of Politics interview at University >>> of Chicago and defended the remarks. UofC was founded by John D.
Rockefeller and the interview was in front of an audience in Rockefeller >>> Chapel.

Trib wrote ths editorial, not paywalled

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez stands by her comments that 'You can't earn a
billion dollars' during Chicago event

https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/05/08/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-david-axelrod-uchicago/

So where's the line between an earned salary and an unearned salary? She said
you can earn $100,000 but not $1 billion.

Let's take her at her word! Anything above low-wage blue collar work. If
she would solve the wealth gap with confiscatory personal property
taxes, then all those fancy clothes gifted to her should be taken.

So somewhere between those two numbers is the line between earned and
unearned. She's been challenged to specify that line but she keeps
dodging the question.

Not to mention, her complaints about billionaires don't include J.B. Pritzker.

Her logic is the same logic employed by Karl Marx himself: the logic of
envy. Some people have more than you so scream that it's unjust and
demand your share or else! Better yet, just take it because it was
stolen from you and "justice" demands that you get it back.
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On 2026-05-10 8:27 p.m., BTR1701 wrote:

On May 10, 2026 at 5:05:15 PM PDT, ""Adam H. Kerman"" <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:

On this podcast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTZzXzRCA50&t=1s
AOC declared "You can't earn a billion dollars."

AOC strictly defines work as blue-collar work. She doesn't mention white
collar work, doctors and nurses, teachers, etc.

Despite AOC's understanding of economics and what the tax code says, the
business owner and the factory owner works. The capital in the factory,
the tools, production line, trucks, warehouses, industrial buildings,
all came from past labor. One has savings and is equipping a business
hoping for a return on investment and will start the business if it is
believed that the return can be higher than the rate of interest earned
elsewhere.

Everything came from work. What does not come from work is land.
Certainly, much of the wealth of extremely wealthy people comes from
land, but the rest of it came from their work. Running a business is
real work. Hiring people. Making business plans and implementing them.

Microsoft is an industry, so Bill Gates' base fortune came from work.
The rest came from his investments in land.

Jeff Bezos got pissed and had someone write an anti-AOC editorial. I'll
cite it but it's paywalled. I pay Bezos enough when I shop at Whole
Paycheck.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/05/07/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-is-wrong-about-billionaires/

She came to Chicago for an Institute of Politics interview at University
of Chicago and defended the remarks. UofC was founded by John D.
Rockefeller and the interview was in front of an audience in Rockefeller
Chapel.

Trib wrote ths editorial, not paywalled

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez stands by her comments that 'You can't earn a
billion dollars' during Chicago event

https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/05/08/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-david-axelrod-uchicago/

So where's the line between an earned salary and an unearned salary? She said you can earn $100,000 but not $1 billion.

So somewhere between those two numbers is the line between earned and unearned. She's been challenged to specify that line but she keeps dodging the
question.

Any number she gave you would just be temporary anyway: it would be a
number that represents how much she thinks she could get away with confiscating via taxation RIGHT NOW. But since need plus want ALWAYS
exceeds tax revenue, the number is inevitably going to get less and less
and less so that they can pay for the next round of goodies. As the
number goes down, resistance to paying goes up and before long the
regime pretty much HAS to confiscate it by force or risk losing power. Eventually, they end up in the state of near-equality and total tyranny,
as described in this short video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2W2TbUSuhs [5 minutes]
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On 5/10/26 5:27 PM, BTR1701 wrote:

On May 10, 2026 at 5:05:15 PM PDT, ""Adam H. Kerman"" <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:

On this podcast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTZzXzRCA50&t=1s
AOC declared "You can't earn a billion dollars."

AOC strictly defines work as blue-collar work. She doesn't mention white
collar work, doctors and nurses, teachers, etc.

Despite AOC's understanding of economics and what the tax code says, the
business owner and the factory owner works. The capital in the factory,
the tools, production line, trucks, warehouses, industrial buildings,
all came from past labor. One has savings and is equipping a business
hoping for a return on investment and will start the business if it is
believed that the return can be higher than the rate of interest earned
elsewhere.

Everything came from work. What does not come from work is land.
Certainly, much of the wealth of extremely wealthy people comes from
land, but the rest of it came from their work. Running a business is
real work. Hiring people. Making business plans and implementing them.

Microsoft is an industry, so Bill Gates' base fortune came from work.
The rest came from his investments in land.

Jeff Bezos got pissed and had someone write an anti-AOC editorial. I'll
cite it but it's paywalled. I pay Bezos enough when I shop at Whole
Paycheck.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/05/07/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-is-wrong-about-billionaires/

She came to Chicago for an Institute of Politics interview at University
of Chicago and defended the remarks. UofC was founded by John D.
Rockefeller and the interview was in front of an audience in Rockefeller
Chapel.

Trib wrote ths editorial, not paywalled

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez stands by her comments that 'You can't earn a
billion dollars' during Chicago event

https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/05/08/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-david-axelrod-uchicago/

So where's the line between an earned salary and an unearned salary? She said you can earn $100,000 but not $1 billion.

So somewhere between those two numbers is the line between earned and unearned. She's been challenged to specify that line but she keeps dodging the
question.

Why is anyone surprised?! She's as dumb as a bunch of rocks. She's
always been as dumb as a bunch of rocks.


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On 5/10/26 7:44 PM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:

BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:

On May 10, 2026 at 5:05:15 PM PDT, ""Adam H. Kerman"" <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:

On this podcast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTZzXzRCA50&t=1s
AOC declared "You can't earn a billion dollars."

AOC strictly defines work as blue-collar work. She doesn't mention white >>> collar work, doctors and nurses, teachers, etc.

Despite AOC's understanding of economics and what the tax code says, the >>> business owner and the factory owner works. The capital in the factory,
the tools, production line, trucks, warehouses, industrial buildings,
all came from past labor. One has savings and is equipping a business
hoping for a return on investment and will start the business if it is
believed that the return can be higher than the rate of interest earned
elsewhere.

Everything came from work. What does not come from work is land.
Certainly, much of the wealth of extremely wealthy people comes from
land, but the rest of it came from their work. Running a business is
real work. Hiring people. Making business plans and implementing them.

Microsoft is an industry, so Bill Gates' base fortune came from work.
The rest came from his investments in land.

Jeff Bezos got pissed and had someone write an anti-AOC editorial. I'll
cite it but it's paywalled. I pay Bezos enough when I shop at Whole
Paycheck.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/05/07/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-is-wrong-about-billionaires/

She came to Chicago for an Institute of Politics interview at University >>> of Chicago and defended the remarks. UofC was founded by John D.
Rockefeller and the interview was in front of an audience in Rockefeller >>> Chapel.

Trib wrote ths editorial, not paywalled

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez stands by her comments that 'You can't earn a
billion dollars' during Chicago event

https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/05/08/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-david-axelrod-uchicago/

So where's the line between an earned salary and an unearned salary? She said
you can earn $100,000 but not $1 billion.

Let's take her at her word! Anything above low-wage blue collar work. If
she would solve the wealth gap with confiscatory personal property
taxes, then all those fancy clothes gifted to her should be taken.

So somewhere between those two numbers is the line between earned and
unearned. She's been challenged to specify that line but she keeps
dodging the question.

Not to mention, her complaints about billionaires don't include J.B. Pritzker.

Or presumably Tom Steyer either. And certainly not George Soros!


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In article <10tr6fr$o68c$1@dont-email.me>, ahk@chinet.com wrote:

AOC strictly defines work as blue-collar work. She doesn't mention white >collar work, doctors and nurses, teachers, etc.

Despite AOC's understanding of economics and what the tax code says, the >business owner and the factory owner works. The capital in the factory,
the tools, production line, trucks, warehouses, industrial buildings,
all came from past labor. One has savings and is equipping a business
hoping for a return on investment and will start the business if it is >believed that the return can be higher than the rate of interest earned >elsewhere.

You will never convince me that AOC didn't trade sex for passing grades
when she got her business degree.
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In article <10trfpp$qc0d$1@dont-email.me>, ahk@chinet.com wrote:

BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:

So where's the line between an earned salary and an unearned salary?
She said you can earn $100,000 but not $1 billion.
So somewhere between those two numbers is the line between earned and
unearned. She's been challenged to specify that line but she keeps
dodging the question.

Not to mention, her complaints about billionaires don't include J.B. >Pritzker.

Or Taylor Swift.


[Kerman's incorrect formatting fixed.]
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On Mon, 11 May 2026 00:05:15 -0000 (UTC), "Adam H. Kerman"
<ahk@chinet.com> wrote:

On this podcast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTZzXzRCA50&t=1s
AOC declared "You can't earn a billion dollars."

AOC strictly defines work as blue-collar work. She doesn't mention white >collar work, doctors and nurses, teachers, etc.

Despite AOC's understanding of economics and what the tax code says, the >business owner and the factory owner works. The capital in the factory,
the tools, production line, trucks, warehouses, industrial buildings,
all came from past labor. One has savings and is equipping a business
hoping for a return on investment and will start the business if it is >believed that the return can be higher than the rate of interest earned >elsewhere.

Everything came from work. What does not come from work is land.
Certainly, much of the wealth of extremely wealthy people comes from
land, but the rest of it came from their work. Running a business is
real work. Hiring people. Making business plans and implementing them.

Microsoft is an industry, so Bill Gates' base fortune came from work.
The rest came from his investments in land.

Jeff Bezos got pissed and had someone write an anti-AOC editorial. I'll
cite it but it's paywalled. I pay Bezos enough when I shop at Whole
Paycheck.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/05/07/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-is-wrong-about-billionaires/

She came to Chicago for an Institute of Politics interview at University
of Chicago and defended the remarks. UofC was founded by John D.
Rockefeller and the interview was in front of an audience in Rockefeller >Chapel.

Trib wrote ths editorial, not paywalled

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez stands by her comments that 'You can't earn a >billion dollars' during Chicago event >https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/05/08/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-david-axelrod-uchicago/

Cortez thinks that people who are creative, take risks and succeed
should be punished for doing so. Of course, she has her iPhone, uses
social media, and connects to the Internet that were created by people
who have earned a billion dollars doing it.

Her lack of understanding of basic economics is shocking.
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On May 10, 2026 at 7:44:09 PM PDT, ""Adam H. Kerman"" <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:

BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:

On May 10, 2026 at 5:05:15 PM PDT, ""Adam H. Kerman"" <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:

On this podcast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTZzXzRCA50&t=1s
AOC declared "You can't earn a billion dollars."

AOC strictly defines work as blue-collar work. She doesn't mention white >>> collar work, doctors and nurses, teachers, etc.

Despite AOC's understanding of economics and what the tax code says, the >>> business owner and the factory owner works. The capital in the factory, >>> the tools, production line, trucks, warehouses, industrial buildings,
all came from past labor. One has savings and is equipping a business
hoping for a return on investment and will start the business if it is
believed that the return can be higher than the rate of interest earned >>> elsewhere.

Everything came from work. What does not come from work is land.
Certainly, much of the wealth of extremely wealthy people comes from
land, but the rest of it came from their work. Running a business is
real work. Hiring people. Making business plans and implementing them.

Microsoft is an industry, so Bill Gates' base fortune came from work.
The rest came from his investments in land.

Jeff Bezos got pissed and had someone write an anti-AOC editorial. I'll >>> cite it but it's paywalled. I pay Bezos enough when I shop at Whole
Paycheck.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/05/07/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-is-wrong-about-billionaires/

She came to Chicago for an Institute of Politics interview at University >>> of Chicago and defended the remarks. UofC was founded by John D.
Rockefeller and the interview was in front of an audience in Rockefeller >>> Chapel.

Trib wrote ths editorial, not paywalled

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez stands by her comments that 'You can't earn a
billion dollars' during Chicago event

https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/05/08/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-david-axelrod-uchicago/

So where's the line between an earned salary and an unearned salary? She said
you can earn $100,000 but not $1 billion.

Let's take her at her word! Anything above low-wage blue collar work. If
she would solve the wealth gap with confiscatory personal property
taxes, then all those fancy clothes gifted to her should be taken.

So somewhere between those two numbers is the line between earned and
unearned. She's been challenged to specify that line but she keeps
dodging the question.

Not to mention, her complaints about billionaires don't include J.B. Pritzker.

Or George Soros or Tom Steyer or Beyonce or Oprah or Warren Buffet or Bill Gates or Taylor Swift. The Democrats' public hatred of billionaires is one of their most annoying hypocrisies. Kamala had more billionaires on her side than Trump did, yet they constantly spit the word billionaire out of their mouths like it's solely a loathsome condition of the Right.


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In article <10tr6fr$o68c$1@dont-email.me>, ahk@chinet.com wrote:

AOC declared "You can't earn a billion dollars."

For some reason, she thinks the American Revolutionary War was about
class warfare, specifically, British billionaires.
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On 2026-05-12 9:40 p.m., Ubiquitous wrote:

In article <10tr6fr$o68c$1@dont-email.me>, ahk@chinet.com wrote:

AOC declared "You can't earn a billion dollars."

For some reason, she thinks the American Revolutionary War was about
class warfare, specifically, British billionaires.

I read once that the entire Gross National Product of the United States
was only $4 billion in 1900 (or so). While I don't doubt there were some wealthy men in Britain around the time of the American Revolution, I'm
going to be surprised if there any as rich as a billion pounds. Back in
those days, an inheritance of as little as FIVE pounds would basically
set you up for life: you could buy a house in a posh neighbourhood and
still have plenty of money left over.
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Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:

In article <10tr6fr$o68c$1@dont-email.me>, ahk@chinet.com wrote:

AOC strictly defines work as blue-collar work. She doesn't mention white
collar work, doctors and nurses, teachers, etc.

Despite AOC's understanding of economics and what the tax code says, the
business owner and the factory owner works. The capital in the factory,
the tools, production line, trucks, warehouses, industrial buildings,
all came from past labor. One has savings and is equipping a business
hoping for a return on investment and will start the business if it is
believed that the return can be higher than the rate of interest earned
elsewhere.

You will never convince me that AOC didn't trade sex for passing grades
when she got her business degree.

I wouldnrCOt trade her a failing grade for sex
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Ian J. Ball <ijball@mac.invalid> wrote:

On 5/10/26 5:27 PM, BTR1701 wrote:

On May 10, 2026 at 5:05:15 PM PDT, ""Adam H. Kerman"" <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:

On this podcast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTZzXzRCA50&t=1s
AOC declared "You can't earn a billion dollars."

AOC strictly defines work as blue-collar work. She doesn't mention white >>> collar work, doctors and nurses, teachers, etc.

Despite AOC's understanding of economics and what the tax code says, the >>> business owner and the factory owner works. The capital in the factory,
the tools, production line, trucks, warehouses, industrial buildings,
all came from past labor. One has savings and is equipping a business
hoping for a return on investment and will start the business if it is
believed that the return can be higher than the rate of interest earned
elsewhere.

Everything came from work. What does not come from work is land.
Certainly, much of the wealth of extremely wealthy people comes from
land, but the rest of it came from their work. Running a business is
real work. Hiring people. Making business plans and implementing them.

Microsoft is an industry, so Bill Gates' base fortune came from work.
The rest came from his investments in land.

Jeff Bezos got pissed and had someone write an anti-AOC editorial. I'll
cite it but it's paywalled. I pay Bezos enough when I shop at Whole
Paycheck.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/05/07/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-is-wrong-about-billionaires/

She came to Chicago for an Institute of Politics interview at University >>> of Chicago and defended the remarks. UofC was founded by John D.
Rockefeller and the interview was in front of an audience in Rockefeller >>> Chapel.

Trib wrote ths editorial, not paywalled

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez stands by her comments that 'You can't earn a
billion dollars' during Chicago event

https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/05/08/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-david-axelrod-uchicago/

So where's the line between an earned salary and an unearned salary? She said
you can earn $100,000 but not $1 billion.

So somewhere between those two numbers is the line between earned and
unearned. She's been challenged to specify that line but she keeps dodging the
question.

Why is anyone surprised?! She's as dumb as a bunch of rocks. She's
always been as dumb as a bunch of rocks.

What have you got against rocks?
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On May 10, 2026 at 7:44:09 PM PDT, ""Adam H. Kerman"" <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:

BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:

On May 10, 2026 at 5:05:15 PM PDT, ""Adam H. Kerman"" <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez stands by her comments that 'You can't earn a
billion dollars' during Chicago event

https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/05/08/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-david-axelrod-uchicago/

So where's the line between an earned salary and an unearned salary? She said
you can earn $100,000 but not $1 billion.

Let's take her at her word! Anything above low-wage blue collar work. If
she would solve the wealth gap with confiscatory personal property
taxes, then all those fancy clothes gifted to her should be taken.

So somewhere between those two numbers is the line between earned and
unearned. She's been challenged to specify that line but she keeps
dodging the question.

Not to mention, her complaints about billionaires don't include J.B. Pritzker.

"It's more important to be morally right than factually correct."
--Alexandria Occasional-Cortex

"It is usually futile to try to talk facts and analysis to people who are enjoying a sense of moral superiority in their ignorance."
--Thomas Sowell


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BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:

On May 10, 2026 at 7:44:09 PM PDT, ""Adam H. Kerman"" <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:

BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:

On May 10, 2026 at 5:05:15 PM PDT, ""Adam H. Kerman"" <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez stands by her comments that 'You can't earn a >>>> billion dollars' during Chicago event


https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/05/08/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-david-axelrod-uchicago/

So where's the line between an earned salary and an unearned salary? She said
you can earn $100,000 but not $1 billion.

Let's take her at her word! Anything above low-wage blue collar work. If
she would solve the wealth gap with confiscatory personal property
taxes, then all those fancy clothes gifted to her should be taken.

So somewhere between those two numbers is the line between earned and
unearned. She's been challenged to specify that line but she keeps
dodging the question.

Not to mention, her complaints about billionaires don't include J.B.
Pritzker.

"It's more important to be morally right than factually correct." >--Alexandria Occasional-Cortex

"It is usually futile to try to talk facts and analysis to people who are >enjoying a sense of moral superiority in their ignorance."
--Thomas Sowell

Early happy birthday! He'll turn 96 at the end of June.
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On 5/13/2026 7:20 PM, BTR1701 wrote:

On May 10, 2026 at 7:44:09 PM PDT, ""Adam H. Kerman"" <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:

BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:

On May 10, 2026 at 5:05:15 PM PDT, ""Adam H. Kerman"" <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez stands by her comments that 'You can't earn a >>>> billion dollars' during Chicago event

https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/05/08/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-david-axelrod-uchicago/

So where's the line between an earned salary and an unearned salary? She said
you can earn $100,000 but not $1 billion.

Let's take her at her word! Anything above low-wage blue collar work. If
she would solve the wealth gap with confiscatory personal property
taxes, then all those fancy clothes gifted to her should be taken.

So somewhere between those two numbers is the line between earned and
unearned. She's been challenged to specify that line but she keeps
dodging the question.

Not to mention, her complaints about billionaires don't include J.B.
Pritzker.

"It's more important to be morally right than factually correct." --Alexandria Occasional-Cortex
...

And, in the interest of being factually correct, let's peek at what AOC actually said:

"If people want to really blow up one figure here or one word there,
I would argue that theyrCOre missing the forest for the trees. I think
that thererCOs a lot of people more concerned about being precisely, factually, and semantically correct than about being morally right."
-Washington Post

Though I'm sure you can see the difference, I'll spell it out for
others: she was deploring nitpicking, not accuracy.


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On 5/10/26 5:05 PM, Adam H. Kerman wrote:

On this podcast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTZzXzRCA50&t=1s
AOC declared "You can't earn a billion dollars."

A statement that makes intuitive sense! Although it's
considered a political obscenity to mention it, since
about 1990 there has been tax breaks for capital gains
(unearned income), paid by the higher tax rate on wages
and salaries (earned income).

Neither she nor Bernie Sanders ever have complained
about this, because it would offend the Democratic
Party billionaires who "earned" their billions through
these subsidies. Leftist billionaires have got their
fortune off the higher taxes on labor and salarymen.

AOC strictly defines work as blue-collar work. She doesn't mention white collar work, doctors and nurses, teachers, etc.

I assume that was a figurative statement, though maybe
I shouldn't; the Left has always valued symbolism
over substance, advertising over fact, unanimity
over diversity.

Despite AOC's understanding of economics and what the tax code says, the business owner and the factory owner works. The capital in the factory,
the tools, production line, trucks, warehouses, industrial buildings,
all came from past labor. One has savings and is equipping a business
hoping for a return on investment and will start the business if it is believed that the return can be higher than the rate of interest earned elsewhere.

Everything came from work. What does not come from work is land.
Certainly, much of the wealth of extremely wealthy people comes from
land, but the rest of it came from their work. Running a business is
real work. Hiring people. Making business plans and implementing them.

Microsoft is an industry, so Bill Gates' base fortune came from work.
The rest came from his investments in land.

Jeff Bezos got pissed and had someone write an anti-AOC editorial. I'll
cite it but it's paywalled. I pay Bezos enough when I shop at Whole
Paycheck.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/05/07/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-is-wrong-about-billionaires/

She came to Chicago for an Institute of Politics interview at University
of Chicago and defended the remarks. UofC was founded by John D.
Rockefeller and the interview was in front of an audience in Rockefeller Chapel.

Trib wrote ths editorial, not paywalled

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez stands by her comments that 'You can't earn a billion dollars' during Chicago event https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/05/08/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-david-axelrod-uchicago/

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