Ocasio-Cortez’s failed company is a tax deadbeat: warrant filed over unpaid taxes to New York State

American Thinker ^ | 03/10/2019 | Thomas Lifson

[SeekAndFind]

Despite being the object of a huge amount of media attention, few people seem to know that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tried to be an entrepreneur and fell flat on her face. Her media pals certainly have no interest in publicizing the fact the she embraced socialism after she proved to be utterly, embarrassingly  incompetent at  earning her way.  Monica Showalter asked the key question on these pages last summer: “Did Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's socialist fanaticism come from bitter failure in business?
Now, thanks to digging by the New York Post, we know that:

Brook Avenue Press, a company she founded in 2012 to publish children’s books in The Bronx, owes the state $1,870.36 in corporate taxes, public records show.

The state slapped the company with a warrant on July 6, 2017, two months after Ocasio-Cortez announced her candidacy to run against Democratic incumbent Joe Crowley for the district that encompasses parts of Queens and The Bronx.

The backstory on Brook Avenue Press:

She founded a publishing business at age 22, straight out of Boston University, called Brook Avenue Press, to promote the Bronx as a nice place in children's books, something that has already been amply done by Sesame Street which came up with the concept in the 1960s. She didn't found it out of nowhere, either, she was part of a hipster collective…where startups with supposedly great ideas and youthful owners, get together in one building financed by the state…and learn from each other as their businesses presumably grow. Hers was called the Sunshine Bronx Business Incubator.

[mason-dixon]

Occasional Cortez strikes AGAIN

[Drew68]

Stupid question but how does someone who’s only job appeared to have been slinging drinks in an NYC bar start a publishing company?

Because it's not the only job she's ever held.

This whole "Miss Bartender Goes To Washington" is a media-created narrative to obfuscate the fact that she's a far-left community organizer who campaigned tirelessly for Bernie Sanders.

AOC collected paychecks as educational director for lefty Hispanic organizations and was ultimately groomed for public office by Cenk Uygur's Justice Democrats and Saikat Chakrabarti's Brand New Congress.

Slinging drinks is actually the least-significant thing about her past.

[Alberta's Child]

See Post #27 in this thread:

https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3733438/posts?page=27#27

[atc23]

What “dark side” ? She’s a pragmatic, self promoting post modernist. Disruptive to the status quo - like the President. Do you have a problem with the damage she’s doing to the democrat party? Do you have a problem with how she’s contributing to the President’s re election?

[oldasrocks]

Since she peed off the top politicians in NYC she should be paying her back taxes. What interest rates do they charge on back taxes there?

[beelzepug]

“...they never sold anything...so why do they owe taxes?”

Because...NEW YORK!!