"Ocasio-Cortez to Bill Gates: ‘I’m All Ears’"
More like, all eyes and teeth...
Posted on 02/19/2019 7:10:43 AM PST by SeekAndFind
WASHINGTON – Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) responded to Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates criticizing her call for a 60-70 percent top income tax rate, saying she is “all ears” if he wants to propose other ways to tax the rich.
Ocasio-Cortez has floated the 60-70 percent tax rate as a way to fund investments included in her Green New Deal proposal to combat climate change.
In a recent interview, Gates said the Ocasio-Cortez tax plan is “missing the picture” and too “extreme.”
“We can be more progressive without really threatening income generation,” Gates said.
PJM asked Ocasio-Cortez for her reaction to Gates’ assessment of her tax rate suggestion.
“Well, I mean, if he wants to propose other ways to tax the rich in a way that’s equitable, I’m all ears – I’m all ears,” Ocasio-Cortez said during a recent interview on Capitol Hill. “I think there’s multiple ways to get to the same solution.”
The Green New Deal summary released by Ocasio-Cortez’s office on Feb. 7 called for a total overhaul of transportation by “massively expanding electric vehicle manufacturing” with plans to “build charging stations everywhere, build out high-speed rail at a scale where air travel stops becoming necessary, create affordable public transit available to all,” along with a goal to “replace every combustion-engine vehicle.”
Rep. Mike Levin (D-Calif.), a supporter of the Green New Deal, was asked about the portion of the summary that mentioned phasing out air travel over time as a way to reduce carbon emissions.
“What do you envision in that area?” Levin was asked.
“I can tell you I think there will be a role for air travel for the foreseeable future,” Levin replied. “And while I certainly appreciate a lot of the efforts around high-speed rail, I think in California we’ve seen it has to be done in a responsible way and a cost-effective way.”
Gov. Gavin Newsom dramatically scaled back California’s high-speed rail plans to a 119-mile stretch in the state's central San Joaquin Valley, arguing last week that the plans to link major cities in the north and south were just too expensive.
Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer (R-Miss.), a member of the House Financial Services Committee, said his constituents are not taking the Green New Deal seriously because they think retrofitting every building in the U.S. and controlling “cow farts” is laughable.
“You talk about laughs – this bill truly, when I go home, gets laughed out of the discussion,” Luetkemeyer said, referring to portions of the original that detailed ways to reduce carbon emissions.
“We set a goal to get to net-zero, rather than zero emissions, in 10 years because we aren’t sure that we’ll be able to fully get rid of farting cows and airplanes that fast, but we think we can ramp up renewable manufacturing and power production, retrofit every building in America, build the smart grid, overhaul transportation and agriculture, plant lots of trees and restore our ecosystem to get to net-zero,” read the outline.
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) said House leadership approves of the “objective” of the Green New Deal.
“There is no ‘Green New Bill’ yet – it’s an outline, it’s a framework and we’re all for the objective,” Hoyer told PJM.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has said the Green New Deal would ultimately get a vote in the Senate. Luetkemeyer said McConnell has the right approach.
“I think you get a vote and it will let you know exactly where everybody is on controlling cows – that’s really important,” he said.
Earlier this month, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) was asked for her opinion of the Green New Deal.
“It will be one of several or maybe many suggestions that we receive,” Pelosi said. “The ‘green dream’ or whatever they call it, nobody knows what it is, but they’re for it, right?”
Diga La Reconquistadora Cortez!
“We gonna take jour moany from ju, Greengo! Hand it over now or we riot!”
....and eyes and teeth. That’s about all though.
Every additional tax results in even greater government waste, less productive economic activity and more poverty.
How dare you beat me to it by 3 minutes! :)
(I had the idea instantly, but was looking for the pics)
Gates had better use two syllables or less when trying to explain anything other than “Dick and Jane” stores to Occasional Cortex.
There are many things to love about the bimbo, but the best one is the shame she has brought to those two joke universities that actually took her money and gave her fake degrees.
Isn’t she and her family among the rich? Maybe they have good tax attorneys.
I think Bill Gates’ bluff has just been called
by a 29-year old bartender.
I am MR. Ed!
Robin Snood and the Purple Pimpernel.
And they think they can run America?
The one thing they can do is cause CWII ?
Hateful lefty ba$tards who want America to be Venezuela, where the politicians and their civil servants squander whatever wealth they can gather unto themselves.
Thats what OAC means when she talks about wealth redistribution. it is the Cortezes of the world who accumulate that “restributed wealth,” while seizing the means that wealth is produced.
Reject these leftists ! They are desperate to destroy America as we know it.
AOC will make it Law in 2 seconds ,LOL
and teeth & “bug-out” eyes!
Windows Green...it just automatically takes what is needed from your bank account
Ms. Ed.
Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer (R-Miss.), a member of the House Financial Services Committee, said his constituents are not taking the Green New Deal seriously because they think retrofitting every building in the U.S. and controlling “cow farts” is laughable.
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Laughable because it is not including goat and mule farts. Come on Alexandria, get COMPREHENSIVE!
All ears and no brains! In other words, she’s a useless, brainless, Marxist idiot put in office by her sugar daddy Soros and his cohorts at the DNC.
Is AOC sending extra money to the treasury every month?
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