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🗓️ 5 January 2019
⏱️ 14 minutes
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0:00.0 | Tonight, Ocasio Cortez performs the ultimate virtue signal by offering to save the environment |
0:10.2 | by killing the economy. |
0:11.6 | I'm roaming millennial and you're watching uncensored. Hey guys, welcome back to the show. |
0:30.0 | So today we are starting off with news that Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, everyone's favorite |
0:35.0 | Democratic socialists, who is American, DSA. Anyway, she has presented a new idea for the Green New Deal that includes a 70% tax on the wealthiest Americans. |
0:47.2 | According to a story on CNBC, the key points from this are that quote, |
0:51.2 | AOC says people would need to start paying their fair share in taxes to |
0:54.5 | underwrite her Green New Deal. |
0:56.2 | The taxes could be anywhere from 60% to 70% and the Green New Deal would include generating |
1:00.1 | all the nation's power from renewable sources and eliminating |
1:03.0 | industrial greenhouse gas emissions. What's also interesting is |
1:05.8 | that according to her this would all be implemented within a 10-year time frame so |
1:09.4 | that's really not a lot of time to get rid of all greenhouse gas emissions for industrial purposes. |
1:15.2 | Joining me today I have my producer Liam. |
1:17.2 | Hello. So this is one of the issues where I feel like maybe Ocasio Cortez is some sort of genius maybe she too like |
1:25.6 | Trump is playing 40 chess yes it's possible it is very possible you know you could |
1:31.2 | go from being a bartender just another month ago and and then be able to put forward |
1:37.6 | giant economic reforms right and and see like we were hesitant to talk about the story because neither of us are experts on energy policy. |
1:46.8 | We don't have doctor. |
1:47.8 | Policy in any type, but then we realize neither does she and she is presenting policy so hey it's just |
1:54.4 | open everyone can say whatever they want no need for science here but she the |
1:59.0 | reason why I say that maybe she's in some kind of long con for this is that this is a bad idea. |
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