Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez fires back at Howard Schultz after tax jab
NY Post ^ | 1/30/19 | Mark Moore
Posted on 1/31/2019, 5:24:29 AM 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.
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Absolutely incredible how vacuous and dumb she is.
Shultz actually grew up in the projects unlike AOC from the Block.