Seriously???

Now there are plenty of places that document the bS she slings but lets just confine ourselves to her website. So that no one can say we are picking you know real topics where she is just wrong about. These are topics that she chose.

https://ocasio-cortez.house.gov/media/in-the-news/aoc-we-must-very-seriously-consider-impeachment-supreme-court-justices-who-lied

There is zero chance anyone on SCOTUS is going to be impeached for a decision. Second each Justice since Ginsburg has cited the Ginsburg Rule that no answer from any questioning can be made to assume how a justice would vote in future cases.

Ok so maybe she doesnt write write all her web content lets look a tweet

https://twitter.com/RepAOC/status/1545158226265636866

She wants to go after energy companies. The reality is that there is a global commodity market that controls all the prices within the energy market. So a company that extracts oil doesn't get to set a price. The price is determined by the market and their only option is to sell it or not. As they are in the business of making money and could be sued by the SEC for neglecting a fiduciary responsibility they sell the oil. Similarly that oil is then bought by refiners that turn it into gasoline and other products. They don't get to set the price, their only power is to sell or not. So of course they sell if the price is higher than what they paid and their cost of production they make money. Further the difference in inflation and costs are because measuring inflation is mostly a fuzzy science so much so that the federal government has changed the methods it uses over time. The easiest way to see this is the question as to what products are in or out of the inflation calculation. Now as there are many calculations the one most common product removed from the index is energy. Energy because it set by several global markets through production and it's a necessity that is almost impossible to destroy demand for. People don't stop going to work, they don't stop buying every other product, they don't stop needing power. If you want to see the fuckery that goes on in inflation statistics take a look at http://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_data/inflation-charts here they generate data based on the old goverment formulas as compared to the new. And guess what using the old methods inflation is much higher, how about that accounting for the 'discrepancies' that she 'found'. Now lets turn to her policy solution. Raise taxes and give those higher taxes back to her voters. This a bad idea followed by a far worse idea. It's like trying to put our a forest fire with gasoline dropped from air tankers. First increasing taxes on an entire market segment will be the match for prices to go up. Fear of increased costs will move the entire market something a single market participant no matter how large could never do. So those taxes will simply be passed onto consumers making the situation much worse. Now here is where it gets really bad. One easy to understand definition of inflation is too many dollars chasing too few goods. When people have money in their pocket they will continue to pay more for products. The rate at which they more is inflation. So you have increased prices by first taxing the market then you have increased prices a second time as the first thing people do with free money is spend it. There are basically two ways inflation stops. First demand destruction. This is where people run out of money and they make hard choices and just can't afford to do as they have in the past. This is the painful way to deal with inflation. It leads to people on the edges getting the worst. Its when people lose a job, lose the house and watch their lives destroyed. The higher inflation the worst pain felt from demand destruction. The second way to deal with inflation is increased productivity. If you have too many dollars chasing too few goods if you have more goods the ratio of dollars to goods goes back into balance. This is why everyone is always talking about 'growth'. Increasing the amount of goods by increasing productivity is one form of growth. So we have a choice. Make everyone suffer until they decide that isn't suffering any longer and they just accept to no longer want or need things. Or we can increase the number of things we have such that everyone has as much as they want and we no longer need to 'fight' over a few number by trying to out bid each other on price. So how do we increase productivity. You make companies and producers more efficient. You lower taxes, remove cumbersome counter productive regulation, increase access to resources. Governments make long term commitments to a specific set of regulations and terms. As one of the largest problems with incticing investment to increase production is fear of future regulation or future costs. So stop saying we are going to reduce oil production. The way to reduce oil production is to allow the market to replace it with an alternative, so go make that alternative cheaper. But until then stop with the nonsense that shutting down a pipeline or denying domestic production is anything more than a way to increases energy costs on everyone else and stop denying that these polices wont make those that currently have production more money.

So those are two of her positions. Her problem is that she just doesn't know how much she doesn't know what she is talking about. Her policy solutions aren't just bad they actively make the problems she is trying to solve worst.

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