Posted on 07/28/2018 6:58:31 AM PDT by Kaslin
Rising Democratic socialist star Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez explained to Trevor Noah on “The Daily Show” Thursday how she planned to pay for the ideas that she campaigned on in her stunning primary defeat over fourth-ranking House Democrat Joe Crowley (NY).
After Ocasio-Cortez went through the main things she wants government to pay for, including Medicare for all and education, Noah brought up the more practical side of things.
“You always see people coming in with economic arguments, and they say, look, these numbers don’t really add up,” he argued. “You know, in order to get healthcare for everybody, this is what it would cost. That’s going to be troubling. Even if you reverse the Republican tax deal, that’s only going to make up 5% of what we need to pay for Medicare for all. How do you pay for education- how do you pay for all these ideas?”
Ocasio-Cortez responded first by saying she had “sat down with a Nobel Prize economist last week,” laughing, “I can't believe I can say that, it's really weird.”
A meeting with a Nobel Prize economist was likely warranted given that Ocasio-Cortez faced intense criticism for getting basic facts about the unemployment rate wrong in a PBS interview earlier this month. She later tried to walk back her remarks.
However, having met with this prize-winning economist, Ocasio-Cortez presented a plan for getting money for her proposals, arguing first for raising the corporate tax rate.
“One of the things that we saw is, if people pay their fair share,” she said, “if corporations and the ultra-wealthy -- for example, as Warren Buffett likes to say, if he paid as much as his secretary pays, 15 percent -- if he paid a 15 percent tax rate; if corporations paid -- if we reverse the tax bill, but raised our corporate tax rate to 28 percent, which is not even as high as it was before, if we do those two things and also close some of those loopholes, that's $2 trillion right there.”
“That's $2 trillion in ten years, and it's -- one of the wide estimates is that it's going to take $3 trillion to $4 trillion to transition us to 100 percent renewable energy economy,” she continued. “So we got $2 trillion from folks paying their fair share, which they were not paying before the Trump tax bill. They weren't -- like they weren't paying that before the Trump tax bill. If we get people to pay their fair share, that's $2 trillion in ten years.”
She then argued for implementing a carbon tax claiming that would make “a large amount of revenue.”
“Now, if we implement a carbon tax on top of that so that we can transition and financially incentivize people away from fossil fuels,” she said, “if we implement a carbon tax, that's an additional amount of a large amount of revenue that we can have.”
She concluded by calling for a “reprioritization” of funds away from defense spending.
“The last key, which is extremely, extremely important, is reprioritization,” she argued. “Just last year we gave the military a $700 billion budget increase, which they didn't even ask for! They're, like, we don't want another fighter jet! They're, like, don't give us another nuclear bomb, you know? They didn't even ask for it and we gave it to them. And so a lot of what we need to do reprioritize what we want accomplish as a nation.”
“That is a decision that requires political and moral courage from both parts of the aisle,” she emphasized.
Evita! Evita!
That moron is much worse than that.
>>They didn’t even ask for it and we gave it to them.
Well, most of us aren’t asking for a Carbon Tax or wealth redistribution or some idiot “Democratic Socialist”.
She’s winning millennial hearts by saying “it’s like you know like” 3 x’s per sentence. They understand completely.
In other words Krugman told her the rich will pay for it.
> how do you pay for all these ideas?” <
Wow. Uber-liberal Trevor Noah actually asked a fellow liberal a tough question. Noah had better watch his step. One more question like that and he’s liable to be replaced by Chelsea Clinton.
At gunpoint.
As is always the case with socialism.
Yep, her teenage girl speech pattern is annoying.
Apologies to all women Freepers who were once teenage girls.
I’m with her as long as I get to decide what my ‘fair share’ is.
We did not increase the defense budget 700 billion. That is the approximate amount of the entire defense budget, not the amount of increase.
But why let a few facts get in the way of being on comedy Central.
Somethings not right with her
Read it again. The interview was set up to make it look like he asked a tough question. The response was uncharacteristically perfect, succinct and rehearsed.
“””””””“That’s $2 trillion in ten years, and it’s””””””
So by cranking up taxes she can get 2 trillion in 10 years.
Obama added 10 trillion to the debt in 8 years. She wants to give free stuff to everyone, except the taxpayers.
I’m an uneducated white deplorable but even I can see this might have a bit of a glitch.
Costs? Pay for it? Doesn't he know anything?
We're talking about free stuff. If it's free, there is no cost! Just give it to the people! Get with the program!
Ms. Cortez-hyphen-hyphen-el conquistador-hyphen-whatever is finding out some things that no one in her economics class-or her bar—told her:
First, you will be fact checked.
Second, you will be backgrounded.
Third, you will be challenged on the record.
Fourth, you will get taken to task for factual errors
Fifth, your identity politics won’t save you.
She barged her way into the grownup’s table and had no idea what she was in for. Now she’s of national interest and this ain’t no bar, “where the waitress is practicing politics / while the businessmen slowly get stoned”. She’s certainly got the minimum qualifications for the office she seeks, but lacks the intellect, knowledge and guts to get there.
Every day she self-immolates by treating American politics like a barmaid. It’s high time she went back behind that bar and leave the politics for those will the intellectual wherewithal to take it seriously.
She’s cute, but dumb. That qualifies her for a job as news reader.
Like I didn’t like talk like that like
:)
The answer is simple, you print more money. Ask Maduro?
She’s not that cute, and she won’t age well.
Sooner or later, she’s going to lose her temper in front of the camera, and that will be her “Beyoncé Super Bowl Halftime Moment.”
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