AOC: This is extremely concerning. The pantry is absolutely not bare.

[melman]

Link to tweet

[uponit7771]

1. Start with growing "the pantry" with taxing assets and income for the rich. Fuck that, they gotta ..

... give back on this shit.

[stillcool]

2. really? That's what is "extremely concerning"?

I'm losing my patience with this crap.

[jayfish]

6. It kinda Is.

"So we’re going to be limited."

Sounds like a setup for a limited agenda. I imagine it's Mr. Kaufman getting out over his skis but still...

[stillcool]

10. A member of the transition team...

for a candidate who has not won. To me, it's insane to be 'concerned' about what is not real. Sounds like a setup for causing friction.

[jayfish]

11. I said 'kinda".

Just something to keep an eye on. That's all.

[Doremus]

3. We knew it was coming. It always does. Billionaires steal our $ then scream "AUSTERITY!!1"

Why in hell a Democrat is playing into it I have no idea.

Can anyone explain it?

all the deficits that he built with the incredible tax cuts. So we’re going to be limited.”

The more I read that the more pissed I get.

Fuck Kaufman, whoever the hell he is. Tax some of your fellow billionaires and get them to repatriate their vast offshore wealth for starters!

[still_one]

5. Biden has already made clear what he will do, and that is reversing the republican tax cuts,

taxing capital gains, putting the tax rates back to what they were to the highest bracket, and increasing tax on corporations

Kaufman’s comment, and I don’t know what the full context is, doesn’t mean a thing

[George II]

13. I just don't understand why Democratic politicians have to pick fights with TOP Biden....

....campaign staffers, especially during the week of our Convention. And on Twitter, no less.

What happened to the "Unity Pledge"?

[still_one]

15. I agree George. Just no common sense

[Fiendish Thingy]

16. AOC is on message w/the party - Kaufman's the one sowing division nt

[George II]

18. Kaufman is leading Joe Biden's transition team. The PARTY assessed the messages....

....of the various candidates over the last several months. They chose BIDEN'S message as "their message" by overwhelmingly choosing him over the 20+ other candidates.

Joe Biden is now officially the Democratic Party's Presidential nominee. It's time for ALL Democrats to line up behind Joe Biden and make sure he wins the election in November.

[Fiendish Thingy]

22. Biden isn't talking about austerity, neither is AOC- they are on the same page

Kaufman is off message with the rest of the party - that may be his own agenda, or what he thinks is palatable to swing voters, but it’s not what Joe is talking about.

[melman]

20. +1

Exactly right.

[George II]

21. Joe Biden is the nominee. HIS message was chosen as the message for the Democratic Party.

That's the way these things work.

[melman]

23. Every word out of Ted Kaufman's mouth is official Democratic Party message?

I don't think so.

[ehrnst]

24. Well, at least he's a Democrat, and not bashing the party.

So there's that...

[George II]

27. It's a tweet - those words came out of his fingers, not his mouth.

[melman]

28. Incorrect

The quote came from an interview with the WSJ. Not a tweet.

[George II]

29. Not what you posted. THAT was a tweet.

[melman]

30. So you're saying the words in Stephanie Kelton's tweet came out of Ted Kaufman's fingers

Okay.

[lapucelle]

31. Here's the title of the WSJ story that generated the tweet and the concerned retweet.

"Joe Biden United the Democrats—It’s Not Likely to Last"

Retweeting a clickbait quote from a story behind a paywall, especially when the title of the story is "Joe Biden United the Democrats—It’s Not Likely to Last" might not be particularly wise.

[slumcamper]

7. Hell yeah!

The RW spenders will no doubt scream at the top of their lungs when in the minority.

Call them out. As recent years have proven, deficit spending has become the mechanism to sustain (prop up) a failed market economy. When they do it, it's "stimulative." Why should Democrats be hobbled by them and their screaming?

From an objective perspective, deficit spending represents the gap between the value of goods and services needed and produced in relation to the disproportionate cost of production--including wages and benefits. If the latter were higher, deficits would be lower. To lower the deficit, raise wages--and increase revenue.

There's where it gets sticky. WHO pays? I would suggest that Thorsten Veblen's concept of "conspicuous consumption" might inform the answer to that question.

[SiliconValley_Dem]

8. simmer down lady. if you help Biden and senate races

you can claw back some of the money taken out of the budget via tax cuts

[empedocles]

14. Yes

[George II]

9. As a matter of fact the pantry is indeed bare.

[theaocp]

19. Yea, sure.

AOC is like MF45.

[Autumn]

26. We all know how it works. The pantry is never bare when it comes to tax breaks and bail outs

for large corporations and the wealthy.