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Ocasio-Cortez Calls For 70 Percent Tax, Even Dems Are Outraged

TFPP Wire By TFPP Wire
Published January 4, 2019 at 6:44am
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New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has a fantastic idea.

Fantastic if you believe in socialism.

In a new interview for “60 Minutes” the 29-year-old has proposed a tax rate as high as 70 percent, The National Review reported.

In a clip of the interview released Friday, Ocasio-Cortez argues more Americans should pay “their fair share” in taxes to fund an extensive clean energy infrastructure initiative she and her fellow freshman progressive lawmakers have dubbed the “green new deal.”

Pressed by CNN’s Anderson Cooper on the specifics of her taxation plan, Ocasio-Cortez proposed a drastic income tax increase on the wealthiest Americans and labeled herself a “radical” in the mold of Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt.

“But once you get to the tippie tops, on your $10 millionth, sometimes you see tax rates as high as 60% or 70%. That doesn’t mean all $10 million are taxed at an extremely high rate. But it means that as you climb up this ladder, you should be contributing more,” she said.

Cooper responded by characterizing the proposal as a “radical agenda.”

“If that’s what radical means, call me a radical,” Ocasio-Cortez responded.

Is Ocasio Cortez dangerous to America?

She made many angry on Twitter.

And some of them were Democrats.

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