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"You Just Can't Earn A Billion Dollars": AOC Declares Billionaires To Be A Capitalist Myth
"You Just Can't Earn A Billion Dollars": AOC Declares Billionaires To Be A Capitalist Myth
Authored by Jonathan Turley,
This week, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) came up with the best reason to tax billionaires: They do not actually exist.
On a podcast, Ocasio-Cortez declared with all the certainty of a freshman in a Smith College political science course that the notion of a self-made billionaire is simply a fantasy, because “you just can’t earn” a billion dollars. It is only the latest in a series of socialist fables that are being dressed up as...
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US Army photo
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via AFP
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