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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.


(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: aoc; economy; ocasiocortez; socialism; spending; taxes; usefulidiot; uselesseater; vapidvamp
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To: Songcraft

If Obama had a sister...


61 posted on 07/29/2018 12:15:05 AM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: SeekAndFind

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.


62 posted on 07/29/2018 12:18:43 AM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
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To: gigster

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.


63 posted on 07/29/2018 12:24:55 AM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (politics)
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To: SeekAndFind

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.

ps
On the plus side she looks much better than Nancy Pelosi and is not suffering from senile dementia, otherwise not much difference.


64 posted on 07/29/2018 12:44:38 AM PDT by cpdiii (Cane Cutter, Deckhand,Roughneck, Geologist, Pilot, Pharmacist: THE CONSTITUTION IS WORTH DYING FOR!)
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To: null and void

I’d love to change the world, but .......


65 posted on 07/29/2018 1:26:10 AM PDT by urbanpovertylawcenter (the law and poverty collide in an urban setting and sparks fly)
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To: Hillarys Gate Cult
I said that he awarded it to himself. I guess you didn't get the joke.
66 posted on 07/29/2018 1:59:07 AM PDT by gigster (Cogito, Ergo, Ronaldus Magnus Conservatus)
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To: Hillarys Gate Cult
I said he awarded himself a Nobel Prize for Economics. You missed it again.
67 posted on 07/29/2018 2:03:59 AM PDT by gigster (Cogito, Ergo, Ronaldus Magnus Conservatus)
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To: Hillarys Gate Cult

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.


68 posted on 07/29/2018 2:13:36 AM PDT by gigster (Cogito, Ergo, Ronaldus Magnus Conservatus)
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To: SeekAndFind

The cat got dead

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NalZ53-MRPw


69 posted on 07/29/2018 3:11:37 AM PDT by ATOMIC_PUNK (;I'm not a psychopath, I'm a high-functioning sociopath. Do your research.” Sherlock Holmes)
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To: SeekAndFind

From the tip jar she stole from before?


70 posted on 07/29/2018 3:37:09 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: null and void

actually they want to put all the white people in labor camps, and redistribute all their wealth.


71 posted on 07/29/2018 3:43:10 AM PDT by Dont tread and Live (waso)
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To: SeekAndFind

My gosh, this young woman really is stupid!!!


72 posted on 07/29/2018 3:49:26 AM PDT by The_Media_never_lie ("The MSM is the enemy of the American people"...Democrat Pat Caddell)
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To: SeekAndFind

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!


73 posted on 07/29/2018 3:51:03 AM PDT by DJ Frisat (Hey, what happened to my clever tag line?!)
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To: SeekAndFind
RE: Who the hell is this Nobel Prize economist?

If I were to hazard a guess, it would be Paul Krugman.


My guess too. None other is such a highly touted underachiever.

74 posted on 07/29/2018 3:52:19 AM PDT by The_Media_never_lie ("The MSM is the enemy of the American people"...Democrat Pat Caddell)
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To: Doogle
Probably talked to Paul Krugman, the Nobel-winning economist who was the brains behind Enron, and who assured us that Trump’s election would produce a crash from which we could never recover.
75 posted on 07/29/2018 4:39:11 AM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: lurk
Turns out she’s not from Puerto Rico at all, but Westchester County. She’s a NYawker born and bred.
76 posted on 07/29/2018 4:41:51 AM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: hinckley buzzard; lurk

She’s Puerto Rican enough for Whorealdo to claim ethnic kin to her as a fellow Puerto Rican


77 posted on 07/29/2018 4:46:21 AM PDT by bert
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To: hinckley buzzard; lurk

She’s Puerto Rican enough for Whorealdo to claim ethnic kin to her as a fellow Puerto Rican


78 posted on 07/29/2018 4:57:26 AM PDT by bert
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To: SeekAndFind

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.


79 posted on 07/29/2018 6:56:14 AM PDT by JLAGRAYFOX (Defeat both the Republican (e) & Democrat (e) political parties....Forever!!!)
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To: jmacusa
No Person shall be a Representative who shall not have attained to the age of twenty five Years, and been seven Years a Citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State in which he shall be chosen.”
— U.S. Constitution, Article I, section 2, clause 2

Source

80 posted on 07/29/2018 7:43:05 AM PDT by upchuck (We're out for ourselves, we lie when necessary, and money is everything. [Laughs]. ~ CongressmanX)
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