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In 2018 Ocasio-Cortez's mother fled New York for [[Florida]] because of high [[tax]]es. She told reporters: {{quotebox|"I was paying $10,000 a year in real estate taxes up north. I'm paying $600 a year in Florida. It's stress-free down here."<ref>https://freebeacon.com/politics/ocasio-cortezs-mom-left-new-york-because-of-high-taxes/</ref>}}
 
In 2018 Ocasio-Cortez's mother fled New York for [[Florida]] because of high [[tax]]es. She told reporters: {{quotebox|"I was paying $10,000 a year in real estate taxes up north. I'm paying $600 a year in Florida. It's stress-free down here."<ref>https://freebeacon.com/politics/ocasio-cortezs-mom-left-new-york-because-of-high-taxes/</ref>}}
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After her election to Congress, Ocasio-Cortez moved into a luxury apartment that does not offer affordable housing – despite the fact affordable housing was an important part of her campaign platform.<ref>Goodman, Alana (February 19, 2019). [https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/poor-people-not-allowed-in-aocs-luxury-apartment-complex Poor people not allowed in AOC's luxury apartment complex]. ''Washington Examiner''. Retrieved February 19, 2019.</ref>
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After her election to Congress, Ocasio-Cortez moved into a luxury apartment that does not offer affordable housing – despite the fact that affordable housing was an important part of her campaign platform.<ref>Goodman, Alana (February 19, 2019). [https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politics/poor-people-not-allowed-in-aocs-luxury-apartment-complex Poor people not allowed in AOC's luxury apartment complex]. ''Washington Examiner''. Retrieved February 19, 2019.</ref>
    
====Why the worst get on top====
 
====Why the worst get on top====
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====Saikat Chakrabarti====
 
====Saikat Chakrabarti====
[[Saikat Chakrabarti]] is Rep. Ocasio-Cortez chief of staff and managed her 2018 campaign. Chakrabarti regularly can be seen posing in a T-shirt emblazoned with the image of a [[Nazi]] collaborator from [[India]] who fought with the Germans against [[colonialism]] in the [[British Empire]].  
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[[Saikat Chakrabarti]] is Rep. Ocasio-Cortez's chief of staff and managed her 2018 campaign. Chakrabarti regularly can be seen posing in a T-shirt emblazoned with the image of a [[Nazi]] collaborator from [[India]] who fought with the Germans against [[colonialism]] in the [[British Empire]].  
    
Chakrabarti and Ocasio-Cortez held majority control of Justice Democrats up to February 2019. Justice Democrats appears to be a [[money-laundering]] operation for illegal campaign donations.
 
Chakrabarti and Ocasio-Cortez held majority control of Justice Democrats up to February 2019. Justice Democrats appears to be a [[money-laundering]] operation for illegal campaign donations.
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Bernie Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez's proposals for free healthcare, tuition, and housing is estimated to cost more than half of [[World GDP]].<ref>https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/10/the-80-trillion-world-economy-in-one-chart/</ref> This is fundamentally a racist argument - that Americans by birth have the right to the fruits of other people's labor.
 
Bernie Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez's proposals for free healthcare, tuition, and housing is estimated to cost more than half of [[World GDP]].<ref>https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/10/the-80-trillion-world-economy-in-one-chart/</ref> This is fundamentally a racist argument - that Americans by birth have the right to the fruits of other people's labor.
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Economist [[Thomas Sowell]], in response to Ocasio-Cortez said: {{quotebox|"The only way anyone can have a right to something that has to be produced, is to force someone else to produce it for him. The more things are provided as rights, the less the recipients have to work and the more others have to carry their [the recipients] load."<ref>http://www.aei.org/publication/thomas-sowell-explains-affordability-rights-entitlement-and-trade-offs-to-alexandria-ocasio-cortez/</ref>}}  [[File:All-that-is-interesting.comholodomor-starving-family-d185758f2c552c37244ea284ef38cb35f81297cd-630x381.jpg|right|300px|thumb|The results of leftist "[[collectivism|shared responsibility payments]]" in the [[Ukraine]] in the 1930s.<ref>[https://turbotax.intuit.com/tax-tips/health-care/what-is-the-shared-responsibility-payment/L7hupB0UC What is the Shared Responsibility Payment? - TurboTax Tax Tips].</ref> Shared responsibility payments were required of Ukrainians in grain.<ref><small>Socialist [[technocrat]]s imposed quotas. The "quotas were not based on the harvest, and non-fulfillment resulted in fines, expropriation, imprisonment, and deportation. The 1933 decree guaranteed that collective farmers had the right to freely dispose of all grain left over after the collective farms had fulfilled their obligations to the state and had made full provision for seed, reserve, and feed funds. The quantity of grain taken by the state was so great, however, that in most cases, after fulfilling their deliveries and stocking their funds, the collective farms had no surplus." </small> See [[Economic planning]]. [http://www.encyclopediaofukraine.com/display.asp?linkpath=pages%5CG%5CR%5CGrainprocurement.htm Grain procurement - Encyclopedia of Ukraine]</ref>]] All GDP is produced by labor.<ref>https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/adam_smith_118470</ref> To fulfill any of Ocasio-Cortez ideas, America would have to [[slavery|enslave]] the rest of the planet and force them to pay for Americans' free healthcare, tuition, and housing with the labor of non-Americans outside the United States. Given all existing facts and circumstances, that is the only way the "richest country in the world" could afford to provide free healthcare, tuition, and housing for all Americans.
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Economist [[Thomas Sowell]], in response to Ocasio-Cortez, said: {{quotebox|"The only way anyone can have a right to something that has to be produced, is to force someone else to produce it for him. The more things are provided as rights, the less the recipients have to work and the more others have to carry their [the recipients] load."<ref>http://www.aei.org/publication/thomas-sowell-explains-affordability-rights-entitlement-and-trade-offs-to-alexandria-ocasio-cortez/</ref>}}  [[File:All-that-is-interesting.comholodomor-starving-family-d185758f2c552c37244ea284ef38cb35f81297cd-630x381.jpg|right|300px|thumb|The results of leftist "[[collectivism|shared responsibility payments]]" in the [[Ukraine]] in the 1930s.<ref>[https://turbotax.intuit.com/tax-tips/health-care/what-is-the-shared-responsibility-payment/L7hupB0UC What is the Shared Responsibility Payment? - TurboTax Tax Tips].</ref> Shared responsibility payments were required of Ukrainians in grain.<ref><small>Socialist [[technocrat]]s imposed quotas. The "quotas were not based on the harvest, and non-fulfillment resulted in fines, expropriation, imprisonment, and deportation. The 1933 decree guaranteed that collective farmers had the right to freely dispose of all grain left over after the collective farms had fulfilled their obligations to the state and had made full provision for seed, reserve, and feed funds. The quantity of grain taken by the state was so great, however, that in most cases, after fulfilling their deliveries and stocking their funds, the collective farms had no surplus." </small> See [[Economic planning]]. [http://www.encyclopediaofukraine.com/display.asp?linkpath=pages%5CG%5CR%5CGrainprocurement.htm Grain procurement - Encyclopedia of Ukraine]</ref>]] All GDP is produced by labor.<ref>https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/adam_smith_118470</ref> To fulfill any of Ocasio-Cortez's ideas, America would have to [[slavery|enslave]] the rest of the planet and force them to pay for Americans' free healthcare, tuition, and housing with the labor of non-Americans outside the United States. Given all existing facts and circumstances, that is the only way the "richest country in the world" could afford to provide free healthcare, tuition, and housing for all Americans.
    
====On the issues====
 
====On the issues====
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The [[United States]] has the world's largest economic output at $19 Trillion with 6% of the [[planet]]'s population producing 25% of the planet's total economic output by labor. In an interview with Chris Cuomo of [[CNN]], Ocasio-Cortez gave no indication of understanding or proposals on how to increase total U.S. GDP by over 200%. Neither did she address the doubling rate of increased [[Greenhouse gas|carbon emission]]s necessary to produce the $42 Trillion to fulfill any of her proposals. She has proposed increasing the tax rate for high-earning Americans to 70%, a rate that is even higher than in modern socialist countries.<ref>Morabito, Angela (January 9, 2019). [https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/ignore-the-dancing-alexandria-ocasio-cortezs-tax-plan-is-worse-than-actual-socialist-countries Ignore the dancing: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's tax plan is worse than actual socialist countries]. ''Washington Examiner''. Retrieved January 9, 2019.</ref>  She claims the alternative is "(a) [[death]] and (b) spending even more [[money]]."<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TotMNCMkgc</ref>
 
The [[United States]] has the world's largest economic output at $19 Trillion with 6% of the [[planet]]'s population producing 25% of the planet's total economic output by labor. In an interview with Chris Cuomo of [[CNN]], Ocasio-Cortez gave no indication of understanding or proposals on how to increase total U.S. GDP by over 200%. Neither did she address the doubling rate of increased [[Greenhouse gas|carbon emission]]s necessary to produce the $42 Trillion to fulfill any of her proposals. She has proposed increasing the tax rate for high-earning Americans to 70%, a rate that is even higher than in modern socialist countries.<ref>Morabito, Angela (January 9, 2019). [https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/ignore-the-dancing-alexandria-ocasio-cortezs-tax-plan-is-worse-than-actual-socialist-countries Ignore the dancing: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's tax plan is worse than actual socialist countries]. ''Washington Examiner''. Retrieved January 9, 2019.</ref>  She claims the alternative is "(a) [[death]] and (b) spending even more [[money]]."<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TotMNCMkgc</ref>
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The question of what other people would live on – the people who are not beneficiaries of Ocasio-Cortez's proposals, was never addressed.<ref><small>She did, however, question the reported figures of the cost of U.S. [[healthcare]], claiming the numbers do not include the funeral costs of the uninsured. https://www.dailywire.com/news/34265/ocasio-cortez-socialized-medicine-cheap-people-ryan-saavedra?amp  Ocasio-Cortez did not explain how a deceased person would be a recurring cost to the U.S. healthcare system either. In addition to a deceased person voting, a deceased retiree theoretically could remain a cost burden to the [[Social Security]] system. https://www.aarp.org/retirement/social-security/questions-answers/report-death-to-social-security/  If survivors or heirs hold a Social Security recipient's debit card and pin number, that deceased person could continue for decades voting and drawing [[entitlement]] benefits.<br>There is no uniform system of reporting deaths to both the Social Security Administration and to election registrars simultaneously, an issue with potentially tens of billions of dollars in savings, which Social Democrats have shown no interest in. https://nypost.com/2016/10/23/theres-a-grave-voting-issue-in-new-york-city/amp/ The savings could be used to fund funeral costs by means testing.</small></ref>
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The question of what other people would live on – the people who are not beneficiaries of Ocasio-Cortez's proposals, was never addressed.<ref><small>She did, however, question the reported figures of the cost of U.S. [[healthcare]], claiming the numbers do not include the funeral costs of the uninsured. https://www.dailywire.com/news/34265/ocasio-cortez-socialized-medicine-cheap-people-ryan-saavedra?amp  Ocasio-Cortez did not explain how a deceased person would be a recurring cost to the U.S. healthcare system either. In addition to a deceased person voting, a deceased retiree theoretically could remain a cost burden to the [[Social Security]] system. https://www.aarp.org/retirement/social-security/questions-answers/report-death-to-social-security/  If survivors or heirs hold a Social Security recipient's debit card and pin number, that deceased person could continue for decades voting and drawing [[entitlement]] benefits.<br>There is no uniform system of reporting deaths to both the Social Security Administration and to election registrars simultaneously, an issue with potentially tens of billions of dollars in savings, which Social Democrats have shown no interest in. https://nypost.com/2016/10/23/theres-a-grave-voting-issue-in-new-york-city/amp/ The savings could be used to fund funeral costs by means testing.</small></ref>
    
She has publicly admitted to using [[climate change]] politics to push her broader socialist and SJW politics.<ref>Murphy, James (December 8, 2018). [https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/item/30849-ocasio-cortez-sees-climate-change-politics-as-means-to-transform-america Ocasio-Cortez Sees Climate Change Politics as Means to Transform America]. ''The New American''. Retrieved December 10, 2018.</ref>  Ocasio-Cortez suggested that the top Democratic [[2020 presidential candidate]]s have the "intelligence of a sea sponge."<ref>https://dailycaller.com/2019/05/13/ocasio-cortez-12-year-climate-literal/</ref>  
 
She has publicly admitted to using [[climate change]] politics to push her broader socialist and SJW politics.<ref>Murphy, James (December 8, 2018). [https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/item/30849-ocasio-cortez-sees-climate-change-politics-as-means-to-transform-america Ocasio-Cortez Sees Climate Change Politics as Means to Transform America]. ''The New American''. Retrieved December 10, 2018.</ref>  Ocasio-Cortez suggested that the top Democratic [[2020 presidential candidate]]s have the "intelligence of a sea sponge."<ref>https://dailycaller.com/2019/05/13/ocasio-cortez-12-year-climate-literal/</ref>  
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AOC proposes eliminating prisons, setting free 182,000 murderers, 164,000 rapists and sex offenders, 168,000 robbers, and other violent [[felon]]s on the streets.<ref>https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/10/21/we-need-more-rapists-in-prison-not-fewer-why-aoc-is-wrong-again/</ref>  She also advocates [[welfare]] and [[healthcare]] for illegal aliens.
 
AOC proposes eliminating prisons, setting free 182,000 murderers, 164,000 rapists and sex offenders, 168,000 robbers, and other violent [[felon]]s on the streets.<ref>https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/10/21/we-need-more-rapists-in-prison-not-fewer-why-aoc-is-wrong-again/</ref>  She also advocates [[welfare]] and [[healthcare]] for illegal aliens.
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Ocasio-Cortez advocates banning single use plastic but has remained silent on government hand-outs of condoms and syringes.
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Ocasio-Cortez advocates banning single-use plastic but has remained silent on government hand-outs of condoms and syringes.
    
Her claim that President Trump has done nothing about the [[opioid]] crisis earned her three Pinocchios from the ''Washington Post''.<ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/03/12/ocasio-cortezs-misleading-complaint-tru</ref>
 
Her claim that President Trump has done nothing about the [[opioid]] crisis earned her three Pinocchios from the ''Washington Post''.<ref>https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/03/12/ocasio-cortezs-misleading-complaint-tru</ref>
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