Posted on 01/04/2019 8:53:52 AM PST by Sub-Driver
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Suggests Super Wealthy be Taxed Up to 70% to Fund ‘Green New Deal’
by Colby Hall | Jan 4th, 2019, 8:13 am
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez sat with Anderson Cooper for an upcoming 60 Minutes interview set to air this Sunday, a portion of which has been released as a promotion. In the released segment, Ocasio-Cortez reveals how exactly she suggests paying for the environmental agenda known as the “Green New Deal” — with remarkably higher tax rates for the super wealthy.
Ocasio-Cortez suggests in the clip that in her esteem, people should be doing more to pay their “fair share.” When Cooper pressed on how she could possibly pay for the deal, she pointed to the progressive tax rate system in the 1960s, explaining that if you earn 0 to $75,000 a year, you would only pay 10% or 15% in income tax.
She continued:
“But once you get to the tippie tops, on your $10 millionth, sometimes you see tax rates as high as 60% or 70%. That doesn’t mean all $10 million are taxed at an extremely high rate. But it means that as you climb up this ladder, you should be contributing more.”
Cooper replied that she was proposing a “radical agenda.”
“If that’s what radical means, call me a radical,” she said.
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Try it in NY first.
Why not 85% or 90%?
This woman is a certified “NUTCASE”!!! The Democrat Party and all its weirdos is destroying itself!!! I Love it!!!
I am sure that Speaker Pelosy will pony-up her “fair share” for Occasional Cortex’s green pipe dream.
I suspect a homeless person would consider Ocasio-Cortez & her parents who lived in Westchester NY.......not the Bronx....wealthy. So, perhaps she should begin with her family.
How about 110%?
Wow, I suspect she didn’t run that through her head to see what it sounded like before speaking.
And then they leave...................
Great idea Cortex.
Start with Cooper.
She will be the gift that will keep on giving all the way to 2020. The Media is in love with her and they will give her 24/7 coverage. This is a perfect scenario for the GOP.
So she is saying people that earn under 40k and basically don't pay taxes should pay 10-15%? I might be able to support that.
I’ve got a dead cat smarter than this girl....
She did.
It just echoed, so she agreed...................
I LOVE THE TIPPIE TOPS
So she wants poor people to start paying taxes? Many people under 40k dont' pay anything, so perhaps I could support raising their taxes.
Wait’ll she figures out that most of this country’s wealth is held by the middle class. They’ll be next.
I remember when Carter was pushing the ‘get the rich’ meme. When pressed to define what he considered rich, he settled on anyone making over 13k a year! After some blowback, he redefined that to 19k. Phew!
I like the first part of that. Everyone should pay something......even those who don’t make a lot. Too many folks don’t have any skin in the game so they don’t care how the money is spent.
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