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WATCH: Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Talks Tax Rates, Suggests ‘$10 Million' Is ‘Enough'
2019-02-24
[DailyWire] During her segment, Ocasio-Cortez talked about the Green New Deal, and explained her support for a marginal tax rate of 70% on individuals making more than $10 million a year:

If you make more than $10 million in one year, which is a pretty good year ... your ten millionth and one dollar gets taxed at 70%, which, by the way, we used to have marginal tax rates under Republican presidents of 90%, and it was when we experienced some of the largest rates of economic [growth in the United States].

...It really comes down to the question of, isn’t $10 million enough? Like, when does it stop, right? At what point is it immoral that we’re building Jeff Bezos a helipad when we have the most amount of homeless people in New York City?

Posted by:Anomalous Sources

#13  your ten millionth and one dollar gets taxed at 70%,

Let's conduct this experiment on Bezos, Zuck, Dorsey and the Google boys and see what happens.
Posted by: charger   2019-02-24 18:17  

#12  There is nothing stopping any liberal multi millionaire earner from donating their money to the great cause of big GIVERNMENT. OBama, Oprah, Buffett, Gates... can be the first to donate.
Posted by: Airandee   2019-02-24 18:14  

#11  There's reports she doesn't live in her district.

Per Silentbrick, this from today’s New York Post (actually from late yestreday, but it would have appeared in print this morning):

She may be America’s most famous freshman congresswoman, but in New York, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is a virtual ghost.

She has no district office and no local phone number, unlike the state’s three other freshman members.

And it’s unclear whether the 29-year-old lawmaker, who represents the Bronx and Queens, actually still lives in the Parkchester neighborhood that has been so closely tied to her rise — even though she won her upset victory over fellow Democrat Rep. Joe Crowley with accusations that his home in Virginia made him too Washington-focused to serve his district.

Ocasio-Cortez has used her deceased father’s Bronx condo on her voter registration since 2012, and even posed in the one-bedroom Bronx flat for celebrity photographer Annie Leibovitz in a Vogue magazine profile after her stunning November election. But The Post could find little indication she continues to live there.
Posted by: trailing wife   2019-02-24 17:02  

#10  I've been told she has a degree in economics from BU. It's clearly not worth the paper it's printed on.
Posted by: One Eyed Tsar   2019-02-24 16:54  

#9  There's reports she doesn't live in her district. We should keep one liberal around to show everyone how crazy they are. I vote for her to be on display in the capital in a glass jar.
Posted by: Silentbrick   2019-02-24 16:04  

#8  Waiting for Weird Al to put together a "She's Got Betty Davis AOC Eyes" parody.
Posted by: Anomalous Sources   2019-02-24 15:02  

#7  After narrowly surviving the '60s, I learned one thing: the "best and the brightest" -- ain't!
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418   2019-02-24 11:35  

#6  The scary thing about AOC is that she is not typical of hers generation - she's one of their best and brightest.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2019-02-24 10:47  

#5  A person who claims that $10M is enough typically does not possess the qualities and abilities essential to earn $10M.
Posted by: York Harding    2019-02-24 09:43  

#4  And all the pro athletes are cheering her on....or not.

She really is a despicable idiot.
Posted by: AlanC   2019-02-24 09:20  

#3  So where's the incentive to earn those highly taxed extra dollars? I'd imagine the accountants among the commenters are chortling softly to themselves.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2019-02-24 08:48  

#2  Power and control, central to all commies. You exist to serve the state and the state's interest.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2019-02-24 07:56  

#1  Its not your call to make bitch.
Posted by: Uleck Spererong9442   2019-02-24 06:46  

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