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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @Ocasio2018
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Unlike robber barons, I have no problem paying taxes & contributing to society. I’m a 1st gen kid that @ 29 w no kids will make more than my parents did.

I SHOULD pay more if it means giving the waitress-me a break. I’m GLAD my taxed income can mean better Bronx public schools.
Taxes should respect a person’s station in life, including working people + parents. It’s ludicrous that we tax Warren Buffet’s secretary more than we tax him - and he has said as much.

Sensible + conscientious people of all incomes want a fair society. amp.cnn.com/money/2013/03/…
Now what I DON’T want is for our public funds to be funding freebie helipads for Amazon + robber baron billionaires, all while NYCHA and public schools go underfunded & mom+pops get nowhere near that kind of a break.
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A few weeks ago, I joined youth activists in a specific demand for a Green New Deal Committee.

It had 3 simple elements:
1. No fossil fuel money on climate cmte
2. Offer solutions for impacted communities
3. Draft sample #GreenNewDeal

All 3 were rejected as “too controversial.”
In DC + even in our own party, it‘s apparently too controversial to ask that we keep oil+gas co’s away from enviro policy.

It’s too controversial to talk about the socioeconomics of Flint, WV, PR & the Bronx.

It’s too controversial to plan for disasters that are already here.
While I applaud the establishment of the Select Committee, without subpoena power or the reasonable requests stated, it will be in an even weaker position than the select climate committee of 10 years ago.

There is still time to strengthen it. For all our sake,I hope that we do.
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Before everyone jumps one me - yes, culture isn’t DNA.

But to be Puerto Rican is to be the descendant of:
African Moors + slaves,
Taino Indians,
Spanish colonizers,
Jewish refugees,
and likely others.

We are all of these things and something else all at once - we are Boricua.
Just because one concrete identity may not be how we think of ourselves today, nor how we were raised, it doesn’t mean we cannot or should not honor the ancestors + stories that got us here.

I was raised Catholic, & that identity is an amalgam too - especially in Latin America.
If anything, the stories of our ancestry give us windows of opportunity to lean into others, to seek them out, and see ourselves, our histories, and our futures, tightly knit with other communities in a way we perhaps never before thought possible.
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A Green New Deal will take a level of ambition + innovation on the scale of the moon landing. We’ve been done it before, and can do it again.

Leave the false statements to Sarah Huckabee. She’s much better at it.

Also, you haven’t been a Governor of any state for 10+ years now.
Since there’s no edit button, choose your tweet:
“We’ve been here before” (place)
“We’ve done it before” (act)
“We’ve been done it before” (BX colloquial) 😂
Now:
- GOP VP candidate (fmr)
- Sitting GOP US Senator
- GOP Governor (fmr)
- US Senator that killed the Public Option
- Entire Conservative Cable News Channel + YouTube universe

Have ALL gone after me, just to get lit up.

I’m not even sworn in yet. Don’t y’all have jobs to do?
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