Posted on 03/05/2019 7:21:46 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Like Sen. Kamala Harris, who was rebuked by her own father for perpetrating the stereotype of Jamaicans as potheads, socialist Democrat Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was effectively rebuked by her own mother, who told the Daily Mail she moved to Florida from New York to get away from all those high taxes. According to the Daily Mail:
'I was cleaning houses in the morning and working as a secretary at a hospital in the afternoon. I was working from 6am until 11pm. And I prayed and prayed, and things worked out. After the children graduated from college, I figured it was time for me to move to Florida.'
Blanca said it was a no-brainer, adding: 'I was paying $10,000 a year in real estate taxes up north. I'm paying $600 a year in Florida. It's stress-free down here.'
Her mom comes off as an absolutely lovely woman in her interview with the Daily Mail, completely genuine, and with utterly normal concerns - wanting her daughter to get properly married to her boyfriend, fixing up her beat-up new Florida house to look nice, telling charming stories about her daughter as a talky and sociable little child with the initiative to fix up a clubhouse for her friends, describing the ordeal of trying to save a home from bank repossession after a financial setback, praying and praying. Any Trump voter reading the interview, including her pro-Trump neighbors would say: "She's one of us," and far from persecute her (as she feared), would go out of their way to protect her.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
The problem is especially acute upstate where 42 out of 50 counties have seen a population decrease since 2010.
“Much more needs to be done to improve the basic climate for economic growth” upstate, said E.J. McMahon, the Research Director for the Empire Center for Public Policy, a conservative think tank based in Albany. “It’s just not dynamic enough to hold more of its people.”
Her mom's one of these people, and the reason cited is the high cost of living which is explicitly premised on the size of the state. As Billy Joel once sang: "Is that all you get for your money." Her mom was far more explicit about it than the New York Post interviewees - citing a $10,000 a year property tax rate - which would be nearly a thousand a month to the city - or $600 a year in maybe one pop in low-tax, red-state Florida.
It's proof positive that Ocasio-Cortez's grand ideas about taxing and spending are poison. Just look what other socialists' taxing spending did to her mom.
Well if it’s upstate folks leaving, that’s good for the states they’re leaving for, at least as voting goes.
For us, it’s another nail in the coffin.
though my property taxes are Very small here on Staten Island, as is my property :)
Heading to PA as soon as MIL passes anyway. Not that I want to speed that up...
“It’s proof positive that Ocasio-Cortez’s grand ideas about taxing and spending are poison. Just look what other socialists’ taxing spending did to her mom.”
Almost Occasionally Coherent has the intellectual reasoning of a 6 year old retarded child. She truly is pathetically ignorant. Boston University should be proud...
This mothers big mistake was paying to send her moron daughter to college..There she learned the communist guide book.Her daughter is a number one moron..If I was the mother I would do what she did and move as far away from the idiot as I COULD..
Why doesn't she just wait for her daughter's Green New Deal to get passed and go into law? Every home and building in America will be retrofitted to be energy efficient.
Then she could have her house renovated to meet the GND's new strict standards....for FREE!
This is too funny. Her own mom moved away from high tax New York.
Remember as high as New York taxes are, Ocasio-Cortez wants to raise them higher than that on all of us nationwide, if she had the power.
She’s just livin’ in this world...
Same here... 2 yrs till retirement...hubs will have to move his biz, though
I wonder if she was a good barkeep. Probably not.
“I wonder if she was a good barkeep. Probably not.”
Apparently the idea of “an A for a lay” is still alive and well at Boston University. How else could this moronic dingbat even graduate (assuming she hasn’t lied about this)?
A "condo" in middle-class Parkchester, the Bronx, is not "da hood", as she claims. And of court Yorktown Heights isn't either.
AOC is nasty, bigoted and full of it.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.