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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.

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


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2020election; aoc; cortez; election2020; howardschultz; schultz; socialist; starbucks; taxes
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To: momincombatboots

She did not work Willie Brown. Wrongs lib.


22 posted on 01/31/2019 3:39:19 AM PST by cornfedcowboy
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To: Libloather

well she has a point, why should older billionaires who’ve successfully run companies, understood economics and finance have a free pass (to try) to run for president when 20 something bar tenders who have all that life experience aren’t eligible? /s


23 posted on 01/31/2019 3:50:00 AM PST by Dad was my hero
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To: FlingWingFlyer
The House of Representative isn’t like Vinnie’s Bar and Grill Lounge.

Yes, the denizens of Vinnie's are by and large more respectable and productive.

24 posted on 01/31/2019 3:50:15 AM PST by Fightin Whitey
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To: Dad was my hero

Good one, Dad!


25 posted on 01/31/2019 3:56:11 AM PST by poconopundit
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To: Libloather

earned relevant degrees w/ honors,

That is scary based on the things she says related to the degree she earned.


26 posted on 01/31/2019 3:57:31 AM PST by pas
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To: Libloather

She does not realize it yet, but with every tweet, she reveals her immaturity.

Let her keep tweeting. She is the Miley Cyrus of congress.


27 posted on 01/31/2019 4:01:52 AM PST by Flavious_Maximus
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To: poconopundit

Thanks. I mean, isn’t she the brightest bulb in a pack of all burned out light bulbs? ;^>


28 posted on 01/31/2019 4:02:18 AM PST by Dad was my hero
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To: Libloather

Horizontal Harris and Occasional Cortex. What a pair!!!!LOL


29 posted on 01/31/2019 4:23:37 AM PST by louie2 (Time frame)
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To: Libloather

This biotch has a mouth on her and at 29 years of age will have some oversized stretch marks by the age of 31


30 posted on 01/31/2019 4:26:47 AM PST by eartick (Stupidity is expecting the government that broke itself to go out and fix itself. Texan for TEXIT!)
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To: Libloather

What she fails to grasp is that billionaires have experience in running a considerable organization.

I don’t think AOC has had any position of authority...


31 posted on 01/31/2019 4:32:49 AM PST by tje
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To: Libloather

You are not supposed to ax AOCommunist any tough questions because she is cute.


32 posted on 01/31/2019 4:35:15 AM PST by bray (Pray for President Trump)
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To: louie2
The problem with Harris is that she personifies what Trump said on the Access Hollywood tape about some women . She let a rich and powerful man "grab her by the..." and it helped her career along.

Her story is also a case study in what makes a hostile work environment. What happened to the other attorneys in the office who didn't get promoted? What was the career message that was sent to them?

-PJ

33 posted on 01/31/2019 4:38:38 AM PST by Political Junkie Too (The 1st Amendment gives the People the right to a free press, not CNN the right to the 1st question.)
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To: Flavious_Maximus

‘she reveals her immaturity.”

This is exactly what will be getting her millennial votes.


34 posted on 01/31/2019 4:41:23 AM PST by redfreedom (The only thing consistent about liberal logic is the inconsistency of their logic.)
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To: newfreep
"‘This bartender’ ...earned relevant degrees w/ honors,"

Sounds bizarre. She has ONE degree -- in international relations. What does that have to do with tax policy?

She's gone full Al Gore on us, with all this bullsh!t.

35 posted on 01/31/2019 4:52:32 AM PST by Alberta's Child ("In the time of chimpanzees I was a monkey.")
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To: Libloather

“Horizontal Harris”

LOL! Consider that one stolen!


36 posted on 01/31/2019 5:10:52 AM PST by Fresh Wind (Fox News: "We distort, you deride")
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To: Libloather

i do not know what scares me more what she says or what she says she really belives?


37 posted on 01/31/2019 5:17:01 AM PST by ColdOne ((I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11~ Best Election Ever!)
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To: Libloather

Given she had a degree from BU with a minor in economics, the fact that the best she could/would do was tending bar in New York City is very telling.


38 posted on 01/31/2019 5:20:45 AM PST by MSF BU
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To: Libloather

“organized & educated 1000s of young people,”

We’ve done the community organizer of color thing. It wasn’t a good thing.


39 posted on 01/31/2019 5:21:51 AM PST by bk1000 (I stand with Trump)
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To: Libloather
Everything that comes out of Ocasio's mouth:


40 posted on 01/31/2019 5:31:57 AM PST by Slyfox (Not my circus, not my monkeys)
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