Despite all the fanfare, her recent "60 Minutes" interview with Anderson Cooper shined a bright spotlight on a painful fact: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez will make it harder for young women in politics to be taken seriously in the future.
Ocasio-Cortez wants to do it even earlier than that, with little to no concern about the mind-numbing cost.
Because fighting climate change apparently requires implementing every expansive progressive policy, Ocasio-Cortez's proposal includes a universal jobs guarantee and a commitment, seemingly unrelated to the environment, to "Mitigate deeply entrenched racial, regional and gender-based inequalities in income and wealth."
All the assets combined of the nation's top 1 percent totals approximately $23 trillion, to use a midrange estimate, so even confiscating every penny from the richest Americans would only fund five years of Ocasio-Cortez's Green New Deal.
Ocasio-Cortez has refrained from discussing the potential costs of her proposal and therefore has never tried to walk through the numbers on how to pay for it.
Ocasio-Cortez's refusal to engage in a difficult conversation about the numbers involved and her disregard for the truth hurts the cause for women's equality.
Ocasio-Cortez's Green New Deal naivete provides unfair validation for that statement.
http://thefederalist.com/2019/01/18/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-setting-women-back-light-years-politics/
Ocasio-Cortez wants to do it even earlier than that, with little to no concern about the mind-numbing cost.
Because fighting climate change apparently requires implementing every expansive progressive policy, Ocasio-Cortez's proposal includes a universal jobs guarantee and a commitment, seemingly unrelated to the environment, to "Mitigate deeply entrenched racial, regional and gender-based inequalities in income and wealth."
All the assets combined of the nation's top 1 percent totals approximately $23 trillion, to use a midrange estimate, so even confiscating every penny from the richest Americans would only fund five years of Ocasio-Cortez's Green New Deal.
Ocasio-Cortez has refrained from discussing the potential costs of her proposal and therefore has never tried to walk through the numbers on how to pay for it.
Ocasio-Cortez's refusal to engage in a difficult conversation about the numbers involved and her disregard for the truth hurts the cause for women's equality.
Ocasio-Cortez's Green New Deal naivete provides unfair validation for that statement.
http://thefederalist.com/2019/01/18/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-setting-women-back-light-years-politics/
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