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 ...
If Obama had a sister...
She has no more true idea about how to pay for her pie-in-the-sky utopian dreams than she does about celestial mechanics. Just mouth liberal platitudes. And when she talks she comes across as fourteen years old.
They awarded him the Nobel Peace Prize after he had only been in office for nine months. It was for what he was going to do. The world didn’t blow up under his terms but the same can be said about every US President.
She is an intellectual idiot and economic buffoon. I am most pleased she is the new face of the Democrat Party.
Marxist always think “we can do it right this time” despite all history of its failure.
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On the plus side she looks much better than Nancy Pelosi and is not suffering from senile dementia, otherwise not much difference.
I’d love to change the world, but .......
Ronald Reagan did more to promote and forward world peace by relegating the Soviet Union to history’s trash heap by outspending them and sheer will-power. He deserves a posthumous Peace Prize more than anyone else in my lifetime.
From the tip jar she stole from before?
actually they want to put all the white people in labor camps, and redistribute all their wealth.
My gosh, this young woman really is stupid!!!
I’m waiting for some responsible journalist — oxymoron alert — to ask Dems to define what they mean by the term ‘their fair share’...
Let’s see just how ‘fair’ it is!
If I were to hazard a guess, it would be Paul Krugman.
My guess too. None other is such a highly touted underachiever.
She’s Puerto Rican enough for Whorealdo to claim ethnic kin to her as a fellow Puerto Rican
She’s Puerto Rican enough for Whorealdo to claim ethnic kin to her as a fellow Puerto Rican
This young lady, Alexandria, Ocasio-Cortez is not wrapped too tight and is far from the sharpest knife in the drawer. Poor woman has nary a clue. Her performance is devastating and is bringing down the entire Democrat Party, which is on the road to destroying itself, internally.
But...The real dummies in this “Democrat” Party fiasco are the voters that reside and vote in the New York 14th Congressional District...that will actually cast votes and elect this mutant woman.
If they had a smidgen of brains, smarts and common sense, they would just simply cast their their votes for the Republican candidate in the 14thNYCD, whoever that may be, and send this confused woman into forever obscurity where she rightly belongs.
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