BREAKING NEWS – New York City, New York – Rising Democratic star Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., said in a new interview that she could fund her proposed “Green New Deal” in part by slapping a tax as high as 70 percent on top earners. In an interview with Anderson Cooper on CBS’s “60 Minutes,” Ocasio-Cortez said the huge government expansion that she wants could be paid for in part by taxpayers contributing “their fair share.” She went on to say, “This is the best way to discourage greedy people from trying to get wealthy, simply because they have some goods or services that are in great demand. This will teach billionaires a well deserved lesson. If they are worth one billion dollars, then the federal government should be able to take 700 million of that, reducing their net worth to 300 million. The primary goal of socialists with my mindset, is to stop people like the owners of Walmart and other Fortune 500 companies from constantly seeking prosperity, by encouraging them to abandon this ‘supply and demand’ nonsense.”
