Posted on 07/28/2018 7:02:11 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Democratic socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez appeared on The Daily Show with Trevor Noah and was asked a simple question that any politician worth his salt would hit out of the park for a home run.
How was she going to pay for the trillions of dollars in spending for all the free stuff she was proposing?
"This is an excellent, excellent question," she replied. "I sat down with a Nobel Prize economist last week – I can't believe I can say that, it's really weird – But one of the things that we saw is, if people pay their fair share, if corporations and the ultra wealthy – for example, as Warren Buffett likes to say, if he pays as much as his secretary paid, 15 percent tax rate, if corporations paid – if we reverse the tax bill, raised our corporate tax rate to 28 percent ... if we do those two things and also close some of those loopholes, that's $2 trillion right there."
Two trillion a year? Over five years? Ten? Just two of her agenda items – taxpayer-funded college tuition for all ($75 billion a year) and Medicare for all ($1.4 trillion a year) would cost more than the GOP tax cuts save over the next year. And that's not including all the other free stuff she wants to hand out.
She also said it would take $3 trillion to $4 trillion and a carbon tax to create a "renewable energy economy" and claimed the Trump tax cut bill prevents the wealthiest Americans from paying "their fair share."
"One of the wide estimates is that it's going to take $3 trillion to $4 trillion to transition us to 100 percent renewable economy," she continued.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
“I sat down with a Nobel Prize economist last week “
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And now she’s got it all figured out. Everything she says is so shallow. It guess if you’re voters are idiots, you can still win.
He pulled the trigger too quickly, trying to take advantage of her Democratic Socialist leanings.
Now she seems confused trying to explain her stance on just about anything.
Well. Regardless of her politics, I sure hope she is wise enough not to be alone with any of them anywhere in DC.
Loopy Friedman?
At least these are three points that gall most on conservatives.
IQ isn’t the problem — in fact the cleverer people can come up with the most superficially convincing horse doovers.
A mind is a terrible thing to WASTE.
Air guitar for an airhead.
Same guess I was about to post.
I believe Crowley will be her in the election in November. This ditz is ready for Congress...
FRiends, we can mock her all she deserves; however, people out there actually do believe this crap. And that is the battle to be fought.
Er... Sorry, Crowley will beat her...in November and she’ll had her 15 minutes of Fame. Crowley is on the Working Family Party...
And who determines the ‘’share’’ and what is ‘’fair’’?
It’s my understanding that you have to be 35 and over to serve in Congress. She’s only 28.
Turn the USA into Venezuela.
In Marxist Fairyland, bills pay themselves.
Until they don’t.
“I sat down with a Nobel Prize economist last week...
Some of us here are old enough to remember when those used to mean something.
25 for House, 30 for Senate, 35 for President.
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