Ocasio-Cortez on push for changes: Only radicals 'have changed this country'

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- January 4, 2019 at 9:47 AM - Views: 74 #8379
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  Ocasio-Cortez on push for changes: Only radicals 'have changed this country'
  
  The Hill:
  
  Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) said in a new interview that she believes only radicals “have changed this country.”
  
  Ocasio-Cortez made the remark during an interview on CBS’ “60 Minutes” program with Anderson Cooper that is set to broadcast on Sunday.
  
  The comment comes as the New York Democrat backs high tax rates on America’s wealthiest citizens to help finance an aggressive plan to combat climate change. The plan, known as the “Green New Deal,” aims to eliminate carbon emissions in the U.S. completely within 12 years.
  
  “That is the goal. It’s ambitious,” Ocasio-Cortez said while discussing the deal. “It’s going to require a lot of rapid change that we don’t even conceive as possible right now. What is the problem with trying to push our technological capacities to the furthest extent possible?”
  
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- January 4, 2019 at 9:55 AM #8383
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  Last I heard she suggested using FDR's federal bank to finance the Green New Deal. That was not a tax it was an
  
  investment bank that allowed people to invest in the New Deal projects. No one lost their money.
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- January 4, 2019 at 10:29 AM #8392
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  - January 4, 2019 at 5:00 PM #8519
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    I am sorry that happened. I thought it was fixed. Wrong again.
    
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  - January 4, 2019 at 6:07 PM #8542
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    Once and for all……. There is no censorship.
    
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- January 4, 2019 at 11:17 AM #8400
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  We'd likely still today be the Queen's subjects were it not for American radicalism.
  
  Which radicalism, by the way, inspired the French Revolution, Ghandi, the populist overthrow of the Shah, and countless other acts of revolution, not all of them violent, by the way (i.e., Ghandi).
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- January 4, 2019 at 2:18 PM #8483
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  So this is the reason I've heard her criticized on my local station which is somewhat right wing. I also heard her name mentioned on a NPR station
  
  out of L.A. It was on a show that I normally like to listen to when I”m out and about. The host had on one supposed Republican and one supposed Democrat. They both sound like Republicans to me. So she is causing a stir! Good for her. Some are very condescending. They also mentioned Rashida Tlaib. “Oh they don’t know what they are doing. They will learn. They shouldn’t swear.” You name it the arrogant jerks were giving them their great wisdom. You know you go along to get along? Go Cortez and Tlaib!
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- January 4, 2019 at 3:19 PM #8499
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  "backs high tax rates on America’s wealthiest citizens to help finance an aggressive plan to combat climate change"
  
  That will be resisted by Trump and the GOP for so many reasons. “Why would you raise taxes on the 1% to pay for dealing with a ‘hoax’? Let’s promote the use of fossil fuels instead!”
  The Big Lie: "Make the lie big, Make it simple, Keep saying it, And eventually they will believe it." AH.
  
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  National issues (slavery/racism, income inequality, pandemics and pathetic health care, weak unions) are not solved with more states' rights. Global problems (climate change, migration, trade, war, pandemics) are not solved with more nationalism.
- January 4, 2019 at 4:00 PM #8507
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  All of us are taxing planet earth by the way we live. Some of us are receiving greater
  
  Benefits from this living process that taxes the water we drink, the air we breath, and the lands we waste. There are many, many ways to make earth-living less of a tax on the planet, and more of an accumulative benefit for all natural systems, including humans. Those who receive substantially greater benefits from the current unsustainable system should pay more (taxes) to make the planet more sustainable.
  
  A sustainable planet will also benefit the wealthy more than the rest of us anyway. Even a 60% tax would have a greater payback considering that the alternative is anihilation.
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