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She literally organized for his campaign before she went into politics for herself. What about that makes her endorsement of the guy who got her into politics a cynical ploy? 

HRC garnered more votes in 2016 than any candidate in history

Neera Tandeen of the Center for American Progress took particular issue with a moment during Ocasio-Cortez’s endorsement speech in which she said, “When I was a child that relied on CHIP so that I could see a doctor, Bernie Sanders fought for a single-payer healthcare system.”

now-deleted tweet from Jane Eisner, the director of academic affairs at the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University, who offered the following in response to Ocasio-Cortez and Ilhan Omar’s endorsements of Sanders: “I find it fascinating that women of color overlook female and minority candidates to

If Biden was a car, Torch would have already wrote an article about him for Meh Car Monday. 

I'm dismayed at how small the rates are in Sanders' and Warren's proposals. I'd like to see wealth at more than, say, $100,000,000 taxed at something like 50%, and anything over a billion taxed at 90% or more.

“Maybe Bernie Sanders shouldn’t exist,” he said. Maybe, but you people created him. When 15% of the country has 85% of the wealth, and the other 85% has 15% of the wealth, and the USA has a wealth gap equal to or greater than 3rd world countries...the “peasants” who build all your wealth FOR you will rise up at some

Taxidiot1976

I haven’t seen anyone reputable suggest a wealth tax is unconstitutional (much the opposite!). What language are you referring to?

Unrelated: JESUS SHITFUCKING CHRIST KINJA

What kills me is there are so many people who identify with the BILLIONAIRES in the billionaires vs. everyone else scenario. They envision the government coming in and taking whatever huge percentage on their $50k/year salary and are suddenly like, OH NO PROTECT THE BILLIONAIRES! What is the quote, they are all

Her entire campaign has felt like an audition for Attorney General.

Why are unions reserved for blue collar jobs? Your comment is weird.

All the pieces in this nth-dimensional chess game are already on the board!

America’s inequality crisis will not be fixed until the public embraces the idea that the accumulation of vast wealth is wrong

Example: Purdue Pharma trying to hide over a billion overseas.

Income taxes will not substantially reduce great fortunes, which are stashed in existing valuable assets

Meanwhile, the attitude of the average GOP voter earning less than $45K, when the GOP and Fox News rant against increasing taxes on people earning more than $10M...

  • A 40% to 60% “exit tax” on people trying to move wealth overseas to escape the wealth tax.