He is totally serious about this…
Democrat presidential candidate, and the party’s golden boy, Robert Francis “Beto” O’Rourke has a plan for reparations.
And his plan involves taking cash from white people via taxes and transferring it to African-Americans as part of wealth redistribution, Fox News reported.
Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke suggested Thursday using the tax code to address income inequity by transferring wealth from rich white residents to African-Americans.
During a campaign event at the Salem, N.H., home of James Smith, a former U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia, about 100 attendees gathered to see and listen to the former congressman from Texas congressman, the Washington Examiner reported.
One person asked O’Rourke how he would use the tax code to help minorities. He first responded by detailing the difficulties African-Americans have faced in trying to build wealth in the face of what he said was institutional discrimination.
“What if in the tax code we did a better job of breaking down that accumulated wealth, of taxing it so it is not producing the greatest income and wealth inequality that we’ve seen in our lifetimes, unseen since the Gilded Age of the 19th century?” he said.
“What if we decided that we would use the proceeds to invest in people, in education?” O’Rourke said to his fans.
He was asked by another person in his New Hampshire audience how he would bring racial healing as he suffers from the crime of being white.
“I can choose to do this as a white man, to involve myself in this conversation. I can just as easily choose to back out of it,” he said.
“All I can tell you is I’m doing everything I can to listen to those who are experiencing this, to call it out as boldly and as plainly as I can,” he said.
“My commitment to you is to continue to do that, to acknowledge my privilege and the experience that is far different from others who are here right now,” he said.
Src: The Federalist Papers
this Dude truly has a slew loose.
ignore him and he will go away.
The last true sensible liberal Democrat was Robert F. Kennedy. When Lyndon B. Johnson came on the scene with his War On Poverty program it has been totally downhill. I do not know what to do, seriously.
What a stupid idea. An Aryan tax that will make Nazis proud
Seems a big stretch from head line to statement. The two do not seem to be related?
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all those RADICAL LAWLESS COMMUNIST DEMORATS RUNNING NEED IN GITMO FOR HIGH CRIMES AND TREASON.
I am supposed to even give $ hit about a guy that can only draw a hundred attendees. What a joke!!!!!!
Up your ass Bet!!!!
Up your ass Beto….
Go eat a bowel of dirt, you Idiot.
What a jerk. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
he’s just trying to blow smoke up the black person’s butt to get the black people to vote for him he can’t just make that deal it has to go and get voted on in Washington nice try jerk lol
My dog is smarter
Beto is a complete idiot. If he wants to see a real division in this country, that will do it. And it won’t take long for everyone to sit back and see who will pay for it after the first round.
Beto you are not going to be POTUS! What a dumb idea you have come up with! White people s/b compensated for all the crap we go through just because of you liberal socialist idiots!
Where did this Bozo come from? Does he expect to get many votes and how dumb is his supporters with their money?
Bozo is a kind name for this stupid asshole. Slavery is dead and should be put where it belongs; in history books. What would you do for the Indians, the Irish, etc. ?
It’s time for all citizens of this country to realize they need an education and not free stuff because they have been pampered by the government for decades. Welfare, food stamps , and section 8 housing should be for the few not the masses.
Beto is a fool and a catfish , all mouth no brains.
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BIG MOUTH WHITE BASS BETO.
Every STATE needs to pass a special tax on Beto Orourke for being a MORON and IDIOT!!! If he REFUSES to pay this tax then that sorry POS needs to be DEPORTED from America!!!
Dude, I guess the “Bozo” doesn’t realize that back in the day of slavery the DEMS were the slave-owners so he should fess up to being a Dick and make only Democrats give money to the black people for being “racist assholes”. The rest of the people( republicans,peace & freedom,independents) should not have to pay any money because they didn’t do anything wrong………….Assholes……..!
Beto and Rashida are the most racist, and Anti-Semitic since Hitler and Hajj El-Hussaini Amin.
I have news for this guy. There are blacks and Latino and Asians and middle easterners who have one hell of a lot more privilege than I have ever had. They were born into money. About 72% of the population is white and about the same amount % wise are millionaires. About 14% of the pop are African Americans and about 10% are Millionaires. Asians make up about 4% of the population and about 8% of the Millionaiers. The rest are a mix of Latino and other races and have about the same % as millionaires. Where does this AH get off talking like everyone who is white was born with a silver spoon in their mouth. I came from a fairly poor family and I know plenty of white people who struggled to make ends meet every week. Maybe this guy had a silver spoon but based on % of population vs % of millionaires in this country the whites are in line with everyone else.
Well Beto, I thought you were a disgrace to all the Irish people in the world and now you have once again moved into first place in the stupidity department. Wat about reparations for the poor Irish immigrants who were discriminated against when they came to America. You don’t hear any of us whinning about the treatment our ancestors received. I am tired of listening to these black people saying how hard done by they were. I didn’t have anything to do with it and if you remember your history, it was a Repiblican who stepped up and freed them from slavery, NOT A DEMOCRAT.
WHITE TAX, DON’T YOU KNOW THE WHITE MAN BROUGHT THE BLACKS OUT OF THE JUNGLES ,TAUGHT THEM EVERY THING THEY KNOW ,FEED THEM ,GAVE THEM FREEDOM
I TAKE YOUR SUGGESTION LIKE I DO THE DOG BITING THE HAND THAT FEEDS IT.
ANY WAY WHAT PART OF BRING UP DID YOUR MOM MISS, YOU MUST HAVE BROUGHT YOURSELF UP, RIGHT
What an IDIOT !!!!
Beto is a frigging idiot. He also is a phony fraud
All I can say to Mr. O’Rorke is that a little white privilege would have gone a long way when I was raising my son.
How does changing the tax code help anyone, other than the corporations who contribute unreported trillions to the most dishonest sector of our society today(our representatives in Congress). No one, I repeat no one, will benefit before Congress.
We, as citizens, need to reign these thieves. Somehow limit terms to a period of time short enough to prevent them from bankrolling their retirement at the expense of the citizenry
I agree a] beeto is a jerk, b] he is also stupid because he is loosing the demoncrap nomination and c] he and his wife are so butt ugly they should stay out of the publics sight forever!
EVERY DAY IN EVERYWAY liberals PROVE they are INSANE!!!!!!!!!
This guy is an idiot
This Yutz is certainly earning his name “BOZO”.
If he said these stupid things during his lost campaign in Texas, I can’t figure
who the Texas voters were that gave him so many votes.
I thought Texans had a grip on themselves.B
This guy’s NUTS!!!
If he thinks America’s white people will give up a cent of their hard earned money to satisy his ploy for the black votes, he’s NUTS! More blacks are currently employed than ever in our history.
Yeah, HE (and the rest of the White Comrades in Congress) can EASILY back out of it. NOT you or me, NO !!! But you can bet your last dollar (which is ALL you’ll have left if a DEMON-RAT wins in 2020) that by virtue of their Comradeship, they WILL be EXEMPTED from this “Glorious WHITENESS TAX”. One question, though…Can the Republican President afterwards impose a tax on MUSLIMS for Reparations for 9/11, Beheadings of WHITE AMERICANS & other acts of Terrorism ? Indoctrinating our CHILDREN into ISLAM in our Public Schools , AGAINST OUR WILL ? Would that be considered “RIGHT” ?….Just askin’……….
That’s harshly put but just the way it needs to be. Dems/Libs feel like they’ll be exempt from any Sharia laws Muslims want to impose. They’ll be waking to a different reality for being stupid. Muslim laws are awful. ”Moderate Muslims” have lied to America since there is no moderation in Islam. Any ex-Muslim who’s been persecuted will tell the truth about how injustice pervades Muslim countries. Thanks to those brave souls, we have been warned.
You will never make it to the primaries and if by some chance you do you will be humiliated and you will lose.
There is no one alive today that was a slave ,you would have to be over 100 year’s old to be a direct descendant of a slave ,reparation has been going on for longer than 60 years and all the government handouts that the democrats designed to acquire voters
That has to be the MOST Racist thing I’ve ever heard! 😂
BETO kiss my ASS
Without a doubt, the MOST Racist thing I’ve ever heard! 😅
Omg is this guy totally delusional. Now he’s starting a race war and he don’t even get it. He needs to be institutionalized immediately. Like right now seriously!!!!
Im not worried about it , this goof ball is not goimg to be elecred.
He should also get a queer tax also, it would help him in his life style. What a jerk and a non Vet. I bet.
Try it asshole. It is blatantly discrimination. I worked my whole life scrimping and saving, going without, making sacrifices to have the things I have. No way in hell is my “wealth” (lol) going to be given for reparations when my ancestors did not own slaves.
What a load of B.S. Beto O’Rourke does not care one Iota about Black people. This clown is merely seeking votes from minorities while feeding them Snake Oil and Hoot-spa. We hear all this Tripe every Four years. All during Election years. My sincere advice to Minorities and Blacks. Never, Never, Never Trust a Democrat when they tell you they want to help you. They have been doing this my entire life and I am 71 now. Please stop believing their lies and all the so called Free Stuff they promise to give you. They can not and will not forgive Student Loan Debts. If they do that then they have to forgive all Mortgage Debt as well. So please Never trust or believe a Democrat. You will be disappointed in the Results.
The demo crazies get worse everyday! This is not a sane idea. For one thing, not one person that lives now was alive back in those days. The horrendous acts of that time, were the worse of our countries history. But today, we can’t change it. We do hate it ever happened. Being white is not shameful, not a sin, not something I will apologize for, because GOD made me this way, and he doesn’t make mistakes.
I just goes to show how insane and stupid Beto O’Rourke really is to go against his own race with his crazy Whiteness Tax? Is this guy for real? In a way, it is really funny how stupid he is.
Beto- what a whimp! Bet he has a white assh…. just like millions in the world are born with! Not sure what his problem is , acts like he has a perpetual stick up his ass. He is so flakey, trying to buy votes by money and a race card. He forgot other races in America, and let’s break down caucasians in to their ethnic heritage! Do the math, their won’t be any one left to pay taxes, so who the hell is going to pay for this stupidity? Love you politicians that come up with stupid crap that involves giving away someone else’s money! Giving money to any group is DAM RACIST and very insulting and discriminating to other Americans. How did voters ever get this mindless whimp started in politics, must have had their own heads up their own asses.
He couldn’t even fool the voters in his last election and now he wants to be President so he can screw up the whole nation! He needs to take his pretty boy face and b.s. and go get a real job he’s qualified for… and what would that be for $10 an hour. Don’t think he could handle most that an a average American works!
SOMEONE NEEDS TO STOP THIS CRAZY DRUGGED UGLY PIECE OF CRAZY CRAP!!ENOUGH IS ENOUGH OF THESE CORRUPT SICK SACKS OF DEMACRAPS!! THEIR TENNICLES OF CORRUPTNESS HAVE BEEN UNCOVERED. WE JUST THOUGHT WE KNEW THE DEPTH OF THEIR EVIL WAYS. ALL OF THEM NEED TO BE DRAGGED OUT OF THE GOVERNMENT AND BEFORE THEY GO LETS PUBLICIZE ALL OF THEIR TAXES THISE WHO OUR TAXES PAID HUSH MONEY FOR THEIR SEXUAL MISGIVINGS THEIR CONNECTIONS TO RUSSIA AN UKRANE LIKE PODESTA AND HIS BROTHER AND BIDEN AND HIS SON IN UKRANE AND A MILLION MORE EXAMPLES. FAKE MEXICAN WANNABE IRISH FRANCIS OROURKE IS FROM A MILLIONAIRE FAMILY AND EVERYONE SHOULD KNOW THAT BETO FAKE MEXICAN IS MARRIED TO A BILLIONAIRE FAMILY!! GES A JACKASS THATS NEVER REALLY WORKED GES RUN OVER PEOPLE LEFT SCENE OF CRIME DUI HACKED COMPUTERS AND NOW WANTS TI GUVEVOUR HARD EARNED MONEY TO BLACK PEOPLE JUST BECAUSE THEY ARE BLACK AND NOT SLAVES AS SLAVERY WAS STOPPED 200 YEARS AGO. SO FAKE INSANE BETO YOU AND YOU FAMILY GIVE THEM ALL YOUR MONEY WHILE YOUR ON YOUR SKATEBOARD ON TOP OF A TABLE SMOKING YOUR WEED OR OBAMAS COCAINE. REALLY. YOU ARE CRAZY. LEST WE FORGET DEMOCRATS STARTED THE KKK AND DID NOT WANT TO GIVE UP SLAVERY!!! READ YOUR HISTORY PEA BRAIN AND OUT YOUR BUCK TEETH BACK IN YOUR GRISS LYING MOUTH SICK OF IT
Well said. I had forgotten this idiot’s DUI and his fleeing the scene. So true. Thankfully, there are other comments where this has not been forgotten.
If you keep calling the American white race whiteness,, we have no other choice than to sue you for your assets. Beto you are making racial remarks towards the white generations.
Isn’t it amazing the the talk of reparations only comes from Democrats on the campaign trail. Talk about dividing the country and the races. Obama would be proud of this clown(BOZO)
We already have the only ever to exist nation wide racist law in the United states and it is basically and anti white law (affirmative action). All those who benefit from it claim they do not and claim it is not racist. Now this freak wants to add a white tax as if the white people were not carrying the load for all the welfare minorities and illegal aliens now. This idiot should be focusing on the Syrians and weights on our society rather then weighing the people carrying the water already. How about this Orouke: let’s try taking the burden off the productive people and start demanding performance out of the lazy drains. No more special clinics for Hispanics or blacks. No more quotas for schools or jobs. No more no child left behind. No more special studies in schools that teach being gay, transsexual, black studies, womens studies or any other sub group studies. No more scholarships based on anything other then academic achievement and student income (not parent income – student income). No more special housing based on race. No more welfare for anyone between 16 and 65 who is not 70% disabled with at least 3 doctors agreement; who are willing to lose their license if you are less then 70% disabled. How about we go that way instead you stupid ss O’Rourke
The Democrats are a SICK bunch!! Beto amd such ilk are mentally disturbed.
Whers my comment?
Beto, my boy, you can kiss my white a$$!
Idiot doesn’t realize that democrats were the slaveowners back in the day and that only DEMS should pay restitution to black people for being such racist assholes.
The headlines do not seem to match the statements made, so is the head line just a lie, or is it an accident?
He is a stupid idiot lol
CRETIN and IDIOT .
Beto is a MORON granted but if you listen and read the ideas of every Dummycrap running for POTUS they are all just as STUPID. Remember Stupid is as Stupid does.
I see more and more African Americans being successful everyday due to the old fashioned methods of getting a good education and working hard. It is belittling to African Americans to just outright re-distribute “wealth” to them. It’s as if to say, we know that you can’t do it on your own, so we’ll just pay you off. That’s insulting. How about this idea, I would really like to see our Congress members, re-distribute their wealth first. Didn’t think so.
Odork will NEVER be president and no other demwit terrorist will either.
As long as the Ideas are based upon envy, or entitlement, or social justice the leftist intent upon destroying the Nation know that the insane ideas made into law are the ones that destroy.
They comfort themselves by claiming “it’s not destruction it’s change”.
Discriminatory taxation is what caused teh American Revolution. Don’t be fooled by Beto he wants revolutionary destructive change of America at the point of Government guns he and his ilk would dictatorially control.
Who eve thought that politicians embracing insanity would blame America’s greatness on being white and therefore Whites should be persecuted and made to pay.
That will go over well – even the dems will not go for that
O’Rourke thinks that he has a fooled us by using “BETO”. NO! We don’t consider you hispanic. You are Irish- but too stupid to be proud of your decendants. You are as stupid as AOC! Except she didn’t say she wanted to run over little kids with a car like you did. Why don’t you live off you daddy who is a rich lawyer and the wealthy woman that you married. And then you took a substancial amount of campaign money to set her up in business. You are a joke! And you are a crook!! That’s how I feel about your shennanigans. GROW UP!
The “crime” of being white????
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Hey moron Blacks have been getting my tax dollars to use for welfare and section housing. My mom who is a single parent ( not by choice ) never got any government hand puts. She worked for a living raising 3 kids, in which the court system at that time DID NOT enforce the child support court order.
So can I blame the blacks for that and get my tax dollars back that I have paid in for the last 36 yrs? Can my mom get her tax dollars back with interest?
Beto ORoure …. a fine example of the assh*** overriding the brain. Surely if he had a brain, he wouldn’t wouldn’t make such stupid statements like he does.
My question to Beto…. if you feel so bad about being white and privileged ; be sincere about it and give them your money and property and prove you believe what you are saying by your actions or shut the hell up.
Hey Beto! My ancestors served in the Union Army to free these people. One of them dies in a Confederate prison camp, another died in a training accident. My gg uncle was crippled for life and one of my great great grandfathers served in combat for almost the entire war with the Minnesota Infantry. Where is my cut of other people’s money? If you are going to reward the descendants of slaves, how about the descendants of those who actually did something to end it?
I served in the army from 17 to 21. The VA helped me pay for my degree, not “White Privilege.” I achieved what I got in life through hard work and sacrifice. I know my ancestors from the Revolutionary war and the Civil War are spinning in their graves to have traitors like you in politics.
What does your rich white wife think about your wonderful idea beto? I’m sure she would just love for her money to be taken out of her bank account because of a tax you imposed on her and deposited into random black people’s bank accounts. Someone at one of those huge turnout rally’s he has should ask her that question. All of these idiotic ideas of these communist-socialist-America hating-modern day democRATS running for president have are so stupid and far fetched they will be chewing each other up and spitting each other out in front of the whole world. I think some of them are so crazy that they actually believe what they are saying and they think we are stupid enough to fall for it. We have to show them just how crazy they are on election day.
FIRST TAKE A LOOK AT ADAM SHIFTLESS, HIS MOUTH IS GOING KIN OVERDRIVE, HE SAYS THAT PRESIDENT TRUMP IS A DIVIDER, THE PRESIDENT IS NOT A DIVIDER, THE PERSON WHO DIVIDED OUR COUNTRY WAS OBAMA, THAT IS WHAT HE DID, IT TOOK HIM 8 YEARS AND THE FRUITS OF HIS LABOR IS WHAT IS GOING ON RIGHT NOW!
NOW WE HAVE BETO WHO WANTS TO ENLARGE THE DIVISION EVEN MORE, MR BETO, THE BLACKS ARE STUPID, WHAT YOU ARE PROPOSING WILL DIVIDE THE COUNTRY EVEN MORE. IF YOU HAVE NOTICED BETO WHEN HE TALKS, HIS HANDS ARE FLYING ALL OVER, IF YOU WERE TO TIE HS HANDS, HE COULD NOT TALK. WHERE IN THE HELL DID HE PICK UP THE MONNICKER NAMED BETO? WHAT WE HAVE HERE ARE TO PEOPLE WHO ARE TRYING TO ARE DIVIDING THE COUNTRY. I PERSONALLY LABEL THEM AS IDIOTS
That J.O. has as much chance of being President as Heels Up Harris, or the other 27 buffoons. running for POTUS has a collective I.Q. of under 60. It is as impressive as the “Intelligence Committee” Nadler and the other half wits all have LLC yet none were smart enough to ask questions of A.G. Barr when the Inquisition went on last week for hours. Nope, they needed Attorneys to come question him again. Beto is a clown! Ringling Bros got rid ofthe Elephants , maybe they needs some clowns. The DNC is full of them.
P.S. I have been paying a White Tax all my working life, and didn’t get asked first. Its called Welfare Medicaid, Free lunch Program, and now we get to pay the freight on all the Illegals the Demorats import for their votes. So Beto can Kiss my very white ass. He married up, his old lady is loaded, let her pay a white tax!
Is he running for President of Mexico? Beto is a Mexican name. I guess he is not proud of the name his parents gave him. What a stupid ass. Democrats spent almost 80 million and he lost the election in Texas now this is going to cost almost a billion I hope he gets the nod and then he will go down in the history of spending the most money and loosing. He is a complete jerk and incompetent, liar and clueless on how to fix anything.
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Go boil your head, Beto. Scum like you will do anything and say anything for a vote.
Donate your own money Beto I am not a priviliged white women never was never will be. You beto are all washed up.
I am a White American citizen. My maternal grandparents were White American citizens that were also indentured servants to a Big Ranch owner. They had 12 children, all who had to work for the owner, who allowed them to go to school only up to the fourth grade. Their education was interrupted when work was required, as it was their primary obligation to put work first. My White grandmother & a Black woman were best friends & worked together, delivering babies born on the ranch & to provide medial care for all the workers & their families. They never owned a car or went into the town. Work, Church and after church get togethers down on the river was their life with local banjo, fiddle & guitar players as their entertainment. Most of their children stayed on the ranch to work & raise their families. Some married & moved into the town to find other types of work. My mother was one of those that moved away, but every summer when school was out we all had to go to the ranch to work so my grandparents could stay on the ranch. So I know somewhat how it felt to be made to feel like a slave. Maybe that is why, even today I never look at or make judgements about people based on the color of their skin but on the kindness of their heart. To hear Beto O’Rourke use this issue in his attempt to “buy the support of black voters’ infuriates me. There were other white & black families that lived in the exact same manner all around us when I was growing up. I never heard the words racist, racism, white privilege or reparations used. Yet now, Beto O’Rourke wants me to give him my money so he can make a promise to black people that he will give them the money but only after they vote for him to be President. It would upset me to think that anyone would believe this man since he is doing something even worse than Slavery to the people I grew up with, worked alongside of & called my friends. If I ever needed anything my black friends would be the first ones to reach out to help just as if they needed anything it would be their white friends that would be there with a helping hand. It makes me angry that O’Rourke has created a situation where I even have to identify my friends by their skin color. To me they are & will always be just my Friends. O’Rourke should never be allowed anywhere in the arena of Politics after this stunt he has pulled in order to “BUY VOTES” using Race baiting tactics.
A lot of things he says are racist, stupid or both. He seems to be intent on causing racial divide.
The “crime” of being white ? Is this guy for real ? Is this the best he can do ?
Do us all a favor , Beto, & crawl back under the rock you crawled out from under !
You’re pathetic ! but so is the vast majority of the dummycrat party !
Whoa. Is there anyone on the left that is not absolutely nuts at this point? Nuts is an understatement – they are corrupt, lying, pandering people with no morals, ethics, respect for rule of law or people. They are bigots and use bigotry to score political points. NO! While I am not a “wealthy” white person, there are wealthy black people too. Do they get to keep their money? Will he compensate the Irish “indentured servants” that outnumbered the black slaves at times on the fields? What about poor white people? Or Hispanic people? Or is it just a “screw the white man” tax? VOTE NO to EVERY SINGLE DEMOCRAT RUNNING FOR ANYTHING! I don’t care if they’re running for garbage collector – just say NO!
If Beto would like to see a huge resurgence of the KKK, put this idiot idea into effect.
Basically what this idiot is doing is, calling black people stupid fools.
He thinks that by claiming he will take money out of the pockets of hard working whites, and give it to black people, “which he knows he would never get away with”, that somehow Negros are so stupid they will vote for him.
This should be a big slap in the face to any self respecting black person.
Haven’t we been doing this for years? I’m voting for the candidate that promises work boots, gloves, drug tests and 40 hours pay for 40 hours work. Freebies are over. DNA testing for all babies, mommies and sires. Enforced child support for the parents instead of the government. This could be implemented without regard to race or heritage.
Then congress should lose their health insurance and be REQUIRED to use ADA, lifetime pensions after being sworn in should be over, Social Security gets the investment from congressional pension fund and we don’t look back. without reg n
Is this guy for real. This country is in deep deep trouble. This guy needs to get out of the running. But then again maybe there are some people who will really vote for him. Now how scary is that.
wouldn’t that be “discrimination” against WHITE Americans? who voted for this piece of crap? they should be very proud of themselves for showing how ignorant they are! let EVERYONE pay same tax! if a person is physically & mentally able to work they should & then they should pay their share of taxes! I’m getting tired of seeing all of these “ILLEGAL” people getting WELFARE checks that many Americans can’t receive because they earn too much money! this craziness has to stop! BETO needs to be put on a raft & sent out to sea & let him run his mouth to sea creatures!
I’m physically not able to work anymore & I receive a SS check & it still confuses me why I have to pay “income tax” on my SS check! maybe we have too many laws! FIRST we need to round up all “illegals” & send them back to wherever they came from! they should come here LEGALLY! White people have to wake up & stop letting this crap happen to our country!
Lord help us JESUS!
The funny thing is that many of us as Hispanics and Blacks can’t stand how dumb he’s always been, and if we’re reading and responding to this article, it’s just to let gullible folks know that if you want people to give you free stuff, mama ain’t working in Congress. Before you vote “socialist democrat”, please broaden your horizons and look at socialist countries. They’re not gaining anything from their governments today nor will they gain anything in the future since they’ll always be looking up at other countries to get them out of the mess they’re in now. He says he wants to focus on emerging issues, yet he ignores what’s right under his nose (much needed border and backing for our border patrol personnel). Not a politician to be trusted. He really hasn’t been prominent whatsoever except for supposedly going head-on against Trump. What would he stand for if Trump wasn’t in the picture? O’Jerk’s lame politics aren’t needed. Many of us don’t like him in El Paso but I’m guessing some politician gave him a seat so he’d run his mouth.
“What if” is a fun game, Beto. You can propose anything you want and, if it is unpopular, just say , “Well, it was just a simple musing. I never actually tried to do it. But we should have a conversation about it.” “Have a conversation means “Let’s brainwash everyone into doing it and, if we cannot, then we’ll do it anyway.” Beto, “What if” you instituted a patently racist, bigoted, discriminatory, and unconstitutional tax plan like you suggest? “What if” you succeeded in overtaxing 3/4 of the population for the benefit of 1/8th of the country (who are perfectly capable of succeeding without your patronizing “help”)? “What if” you then find 3/4 of the population decides to quit trying to succeed beyond the minimum necessary for a decent life. “What if,” as a result, that lack of ambition from lack or reward stunts economic growth, kills the economy, and unemployment for the 1/8th goes sky high? Oops. Shoulda thought of that Beto, baby. But then, that is the adult, responsible thing to do. It is much more fun to speak off the cuff from emotion without using your brain..
He and his fellow liberals are the ones causing racial strife. Is he really serious about this? Really? Trump has already done more good for Blacks than the last ten presidents combined. Have you forgotten? Lowest unemployment ever amount Blacks and Latinos. Is he going to develop a sliding scale to determine how Black or White you are? So if you where half and half, would you break even? This is complete insanity that will put us back in the the Obama regime as far a race relations, which was a huge step backwards from where we were prior to O.
Robert Francis O’Rourke is a privileged white man using a Mexican nickname, probably given to him by his Mexican nanny when he was a baby. He inherited his wealth and married it also. It’s easy to give it away when you had nothing to do with earning it. He like the female shooter in Colorado last week want to fly under false colors for recognition. She should go straight to the electric chair and he, being a Mexican gentleman, should open the door for her and hold her chair as she sits down. You are what you are, not what you imagine yourself to be. If the later were true, professional sports roster would full of “wanta’ be’s“.
O’Rourke is ignorant. Some of my best friends, I have shared my home and my food with, are not the same color as me or my offspring. The only ones’ who keep playing the race card are those who have the need to be recognized as not a racist jackass. People don’t dislike you O’Rourke because of the color of your skin, they dislike you because of the content of your character. Grow up, win lose or draw, enjoy life and stop castigating others for their political persuasion.
O’Rourke’s poll numbers are tanking so he has to pander for votes. I’ve worked hard to get where I am and I’ll be Damned if I’m going to let some squirmy politician take my money. JackaSs