Months After GOP Approved $1.5T Giveaway to Rich, Ocasio-Cortez Shreds Those Questioning How to Pay

[guillaumeb]

From the article:

Months After GOP Approved $1.5T Giveaway to Rich, Ocasio-Cortez Shreds Those Questioning How to Pay for Bold Proposals Like Medicare for All....

In an apparent reference to a "luxuriously obscene" indulgence Gizmodo reported on in 2014, Ocasio-Cortez mocked the notion that, months after applauding a tax law containing $1.5 trillion in cuts for corporations and the wealthiest Americans, conservatives are now questioning her assertion that a country that can afford such benefits for the rich must also be able to provide healthcare and living wages to all its citizens.
The Medicare for All plan proposed by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), whose presidential campaign Ocasio-Cortez worked on, is estimated to cost the government $1.38 trillion per year, while the current profit-based system costs about $3 trillion per year.

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https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/07/10/months-after-gop-approved-15t-giveaway-rich-ocasio-cortez-shreds-those-questioning?cd-

The national debate determines what our priorities are, and what is considered affordable. The GOP can always find money for the war budget, and for tax cuts for the already too rich.

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

1. Lets take healthcare off the budget...like they did Iraq

Democrats always pay off the debt anyway. Might as well go for broke w taking care of our people.

[guillaumeb]

3. Agreed.

There is always money for war,
and money for the already too rich,
all that is needed is a national demand.

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

8. And go the next step...fund it with a special lock-box tax like Al Gore suggested almost 20 yrs ago.

And I mean LOCK BOX.

[emulatorloo]

2. Yes. And the GOP irresponsibly blew up the deficit w that giveaway

Republican tax cuts to fuel historic U.S. deficits: CBO
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-fiscal-deficit/u-s-budget-deficit-to-balloon-on-republican-tax-cuts-cbo-idUSKBN1HG2RW

[guillaumeb]

5. But tax cuts for the GOP funders

represent "good" deficits because they will fuel GOP demands for further austerity for the 99%.

[emulatorloo]

7. Yes, exactly

[gratuitous]

4. Is the GOP worried about paying for stuff again?

Their budget hawkishness kind of comes and goes, doesn't it? Should be taken about as seriously as the plaster cast that keeps switching arms.

[guillaumeb]

6. The GOP only worries that the 99%

might benefit from a government program.