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Here's how Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez would pay for the trillions in new spending she is proposing
American Thinker ^ | 07/28/2018 | Rick Moran

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?

Daily Caller:

"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.


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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: aoc; economy; ocasiocortez; socialism; spending; taxes; usefulidiot; uselesseater; vapidvamp
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1 posted on 07/28/2018 7:02:11 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Air
Head


2 posted on 07/28/2018 7:03:42 PM PDT by JennysCool
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To: SeekAndFind

Turning Tricks?


3 posted on 07/28/2018 7:04:13 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (THEY LIVE, and we're the only ones wearing the Sunglasses.)
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To: JennysCool

“Air Head?” More like brain dead.


4 posted on 07/28/2018 7:04:59 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: SeekAndFind

What an insult to people that have a brain. She qualifies for a dumberer award. Besides which having a Nobel prize just doesn’t carry the same pinnache it used to. No, really. Oxxxx, man bear pig......


5 posted on 07/28/2018 7:05:52 PM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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To: SeekAndFind

Breathtaking.

Thanks for the gift, Dems.


6 posted on 07/28/2018 7:06:23 PM PDT by TADSLOS (If YouÂ’re Gonna Do Me Wrong, Do It Right...)
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To: Kickass Conservative
Turning Tricks?

She would do less harm to the Republic as a two-bit whore on Times Square, than as a congressthing.

7 posted on 07/28/2018 7:07:44 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: SeekAndFind

It would be best for her to enjoy the 15 minutes of fame and shut up and lose gracefully.


8 posted on 07/28/2018 7:10:56 PM PDT by klimeckg
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To: SeekAndFind

C’mon, we know you’re dying to say it => “Just add a zero to all the currency!”


9 posted on 07/28/2018 7:14:20 PM PDT by Ken H (Best election ever!)
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To: SeekAndFind

we can just tax ourselves into prosperity.

look at all the countries that have done so.


10 posted on 07/28/2018 7:15:02 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Tax the rich,
feed the poor,
‘til there are
no rich no more


11 posted on 07/28/2018 7:16:24 PM PDT by null and void (Freedom is in our blood, we don't pass it down genetically, but through the blood we spill.)
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She’s an economic major doncha know.
**facepalm**


12 posted on 07/28/2018 7:18:33 PM PDT by windsorknot
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13 posted on 07/28/2018 7:18:41 PM PDT by null and void (Freedom is in our blood, we don't pass it down genetically, but through the blood we spill.)
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It would be best for her to enjoy the 15 minutes of fame and shut up and lose gracefully.

Lose? She has no opponent. She will be the next congressional representative for NY-14. She's going to DC.

14 posted on 07/28/2018 7:18:50 PM PDT by Drew68
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To: SeekAndFind

I sat down with a Nobel Prize economist last week

...seems she should be able to remember the name


15 posted on 07/28/2018 7:18:59 PM PDT by Doogle (( USAF.68-....8th TFW Ubon Thailand....never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
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But see, see - She's a Democratic socialist! Not like the real, evil socialists! She and her ilk will take goooood care of us. Why can't you mean-old right-wingers get behind this? < /S >
16 posted on 07/28/2018 7:20:18 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (GOAT POTUS TRUMP)
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Nationalize the Fortune 500 companies, raise the average marginal tax rate to 60% with 90% for the top bracket and confiscate all savings and retirement accounts over $150,000 and that wouldn’t pay for the first year of these giveaways. Year 2 would be a real problem as the US economy would be wrecked by the first year.


17 posted on 07/28/2018 7:25:59 PM PDT by The Great RJ ("Socialists are happy until they run out of other people's money." Margaret Thatche)
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18 posted on 07/28/2018 7:31:09 PM PDT by McBuff (To be, rather than to seem)
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"I sat down with a Nobel Prize economist last week last week . . ."

Who the hell is this Nobel Prize economist? Of course con artist Ocasio-Cortez is not going to name this Nobel Prize-winning economist. People would find that this economist is either a socialist (a big disqualifyer) or not qualified in any way to make any comments about the U.S. economy.

19 posted on 07/28/2018 7:34:27 PM PDT by jonrick46 (Cultural Marxism is the cult of the Left waiting for the Mothership.)
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To: null and void

Your illustration is so good.


20 posted on 07/28/2018 7:35:46 PM PDT by jonrick46 (Cultural Marxism is the cult of the Left waiting for the Mothership.)
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