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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez fires back at Howard Schultz after tax jab
NY Post ^ | 1/30/19 | Mark Moore

Posted on 01/31/2019 2:24:29 AM PST by Libloather

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who went from tending bar to the halls of the Capitol, slammed former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz after he dismissed her proposal for a tax on the nation’s wealthiest, asking why billionaire candidates are not told they have to “work their way up.”

“Why don’t people ever tell billionaires who want to run for President that they need to ‘work their way up’ or that ‘maybe they should start with city council first?'” she wrote on her Twitter page Wednesday.

Ocasio-Cortez, at 29 the youngest member of Congress, fired back at Schultz after he said he couldn’t campaign as a Democrat because he would be unable to support a tax plan that she is pitching.

“I respect the Democratic Party. I no longer feel affiliated because I don’t know their views represent the majority of Americans. I don’t think we want a 70 percent income tax in America,” Schultz, who’s running as an independent, told CNBC in an interview on Monday.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2020election; aoc; cortez; election2020; howardschultz; schultz; socialist; starbucks; taxes
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When a Twitter-user suggested Wednesday that “this bartender” should have started out running for city council, Ocasio-Cortez fired back. “‘This bartender’ has served in a Senate casework office, organized & educated 1000s of young people, earned relevant degrees w/ honors, worked on field campaigns, and the only reason I wasn’t told to run for city council was because I was consistently told not to run at all,” Ocasio-Cortez, an organizer for Sen. Bernie Sanders campaign in 2016, wrote.

Whew. Don't ask her about the tip jar.

1 posted on 01/31/2019 2:24:29 AM PST by Libloather
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To: Libloather

She worked willie brown.. isn’t that enough. Young ladies everywherecneed to know that the only path to success is a man’s bed.


2 posted on 01/31/2019 2:29:09 AM PST by momincombatboots (No wall? We withdraw our money from banks.)
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To: Libloather

Dumb as she is I would hate to see the people she educated.


3 posted on 01/31/2019 2:31:33 AM PST by Nuc 1.1 (Nuc 1 Liberals aren't Patriots. Remember 1789!)
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To: momincombatboots

You may have her cross-mojinated with Horizontal Harris.


4 posted on 01/31/2019 2:32:56 AM PST by Libloather (Trivial Pursuit question - name the first female to lose TWO presidential elections!)
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To: Libloather

Wow. NOne of her jobs were risky masculine jobs that add tangible value to society.


5 posted on 01/31/2019 2:33:31 AM PST by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security in hate:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
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To: Nuc 1.1

Yeah, well, she is proud to have people drunk and intoxicated at bars, so she probably drugged the kids, like all creeper chicks her age getting away with the lies and manipulations of a toxic feminity that Bill Cosby did not get away with...


6 posted on 01/31/2019 2:35:15 AM PST by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security in hate:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
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To: Libloather

She claimed she knew the Trump types from bar tending, but Trump does not drink and she is the one who intoxicated people and sold the booze. Talk about a cynical being, a thug drug dealer we got on our hands, with a unicorn clothing.


7 posted on 01/31/2019 2:36:31 AM PST by JudgemAll (Democrats Fed. job-security in hate:hypocrites must be gay like us or be tested/crucified)
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To: Libloather
because I was consistently told not to run at all

That's good advice.

8 posted on 01/31/2019 2:36:31 AM PST by IncPen ("Inside of every progressive is a Totalitarian screaming to get out" ~ David Horowitz)
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To: Libloather

The House of Representative isn’t like Vinnie’s Bar and Grill Lounge. This idiot might want to learn to shut up every once in a while.


9 posted on 01/31/2019 2:37:04 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (#NotARussianBot)
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To: Libloather
Don't ask her about the tip jar.

She should be proud of that. That's how she learned about redistributing wealth. She is definitely working her way up the ladder from a few hundred at the tip jar of a Mexican restaurant to a few hundred billion at the IRS Bar and Grill.

10 posted on 01/31/2019 2:43:06 AM PST by Fresh Wind (Fox News: "We distort, you deride")
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I might.. thanks. I am sure she earned it honestly.


11 posted on 01/31/2019 2:45:09 AM PST by momincombatboots (No wall? We withdraw our money from banks.)
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To: Libloather

Debunk the entire socialist spending and tax plan here:
https://economics21.org/math-problem-could-sink-bernieaoc-agenda


12 posted on 01/31/2019 2:48:04 AM PST by ReaganGeneration2
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To: JudgemAll

She claimed she knew the Trump types from bar tending
Just a few side notes,
1) she catered to those who she saw as rich who came into her place of debauchery so as to steal a good tip,
2) receive a good tip,
3) shake her tail a little and maybe catch some ones eye and take it further. All of a sudden these guys are the enemy when she would and probably did bed many to get that gold ring. Ms. holyier than thou follows in the foot steps of a good rat.


13 posted on 01/31/2019 2:54:07 AM PST by ronnie raygun (nic dip.com)
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To: Fresh Wind

Outstanding! LOL.


14 posted on 01/31/2019 2:55:16 AM PST by poconopundit
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To: Libloather
“I respect the Democratic Party. I no longer feel affiliated because I don’t know their views represent the majority of Americans. I don’t think we want a 70 percent income tax in America,”

Zing, He nailed her and ALL THE DemocRATS LIKE HER.

15 posted on 01/31/2019 3:02:43 AM PST by CptnObvious (Question her now.)
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“‘This bartender’ ...earned relevant degrees w/ honors,"

Seriously? She said this with a straight face?

16 posted on 01/31/2019 3:05:02 AM PST by newfreep ("INSIDE EVERY PROGRESSIVE IS A TOTALITARIAN SCREAMING TO GET OUT" - DAVID HOROWITZ)
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Schultz, who’s running as an independent, told CNBC in an interview on Monday.

I must have missed his announcement. I understood Schultz was merely considering a run for president. The Post claims he's running?

Frankly, I wouldn't want to get between these two clowns - they're both mentally impaired.

17 posted on 01/31/2019 3:05:15 AM PST by OrangeHoof (When the Rapture occurs, CNN will still be fully staffed.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Just let her keep talking...


18 posted on 01/31/2019 3:20:12 AM PST by Hotlanta Mike ("itYou can avoid reality, but you can't avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.")
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To: Libloather

Maybe because “working your way up” isn’t a Constitutional requirement to be president.


19 posted on 01/31/2019 3:25:18 AM PST by guitar Josh
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...”earned relevant degrees w/ honors”...

...it’s called ‘grade inflation’ and is commonplace in universities. These days, the ‘bell curve’ has gone out the window, the curve skewed toward the high end.

Source: Conversations with friends who were professors. Universities push this in an effort to attract students.


20 posted on 01/31/2019 3:27:37 AM PST by A Formerly Proud Canadian (I once was blind but now I see...)
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