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Ocasio-Cortez Asked How She Will Pay For Socialist Policies – Says Military Cuts, Tax Hikes

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Benny Johnson Columnist, Viral Politics
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New York congressional candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was recently asked how she intends to pay for her socialist policies in America. Her answer was telling.

Ocasio-Cortez was being interviewed on the podcast “Pod Save America” earlier this week when the host referenced arguments against her ideas due to their cost. The interviewer asked her to respond to those arguments. Ocasio-Cortez wants single-payer, government-run health care and free college education for all Americans, along with a federal jobs guarantee.

Ocasio-Cortez shrugged off the question saying, “They say, ‘How are you going to pay for it?’ As though they haven’t used these same ways to pay for unlimited wars, to pay for trillion-dollar tax cuts and tax cut extensions.”

“They use these mechanisms to pay for these things all the time,” she continued. “It just seems like their pockets are only empty when were talking about … investing in human capital in the United States, investing in education, health care, housing and investing in the middle class.”

Ocasio-Cortez called America “the wealthiest nation in the world” before critiquing the country for having “complete scarcity when it comes to the things that are most important.” She said America’s budget signals a “lack of moral priority.”

A recent study found that Medicare for all would cost the government another $32 trillion.

Later in the interview, Ocasio-Cortez stated incorrectly that the “upper middle class does not exist anymore in America.” Ocasio-Cortez makes factually incorrect and false economic statements with regularity. She had multiple claims listed at “pants on fire” by PolitiFact.

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