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Related: About this forumWarren: Corporate Media Should Ask Working People About Her Wealth Tax, Not Just The Very Rich
'Warren Suggests Corporate Media Ask Working People, Not Just the Very Rich, About Her Wealth Tax.' "Okay, I get it, we have now done the billionaires. How many of the 43 million Americans who are struggling with student loan debt have you seen interviewed?" The Guardian, Nov. 14, 2019.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Wednesday evening called out the news media for focusing their coverage of her proposed Ultra-Millionaires Tax largely on wealthy CEOs' and investors' negative views of the plan rather than those of the working families the senator says would benefit from the redistribution of wealth.
At a town hall attended by 200 SEIU members in Concord, New Hampshire, Warren asked the crowd, "How many billionaires have you seen interviewed in just the last week about this wealth tax?"
"Okay, I get it, we have now done the billionaires," she continued. "How many of the 43 million Americans who are struggling with student loan debt have you seen interviewed?"
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-- Sen. Warren speaks to state employees in Concord, New Hampshire, Nov.13, 2019.
Warren's comments followed her campaign's release of an ad Wednesday targeting powerful political donors like Goldman Sachs chairman Lloyd Blankfein, investor Leon Cooperman, and Trump contributor Peter Thielall of whom have been given significant airtime by cable news networks to decry Warren's plan to tax all household assets over $50 million at 2% per year.
Last week, Microsoft founder Bill Gates's well-publicized comments about Warren's proposal inspired the Massachusetts Democrat to add a page to her website showing Gates, Cooperman, and potential 2020 presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg exactly how much they would pay under her plan.
"How many of the people who are struggling to pay childcare around this country have you seen interviewed?" Warren asked Wednesday. "How many of the teachers who are working second and third jobs to try to make ends meet and try to pay off their student loans have you seen interviewed?"
"I am sick of an America that works for the billionaires and doesn't work for anyone else," she added.
Warren's point on Wednesday echoed a remark made by author Anand Giridharadas earlier this week...
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primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
Funtatlaguy
(10,862 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
BeyondGeography
(39,347 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
BeckyDem
(8,361 posts)Warren 2020
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Hoyt
(54,770 posts)and corporations pay for healthcare, people are still skeptical of her MFA plan.
There are better ways to tax wealthy including hefty estate taxes, raising tax rates including capital gain rates, etc. The economist shes been bandying around Zandi says the same thing, plus he does not support MFA.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
BeyondGeography
(39,347 posts)Including half of Republicans in this WaPo poll earlier this year:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2019/02/05/over-percent-voters-including-half-republicans-support-elizabeth-warrens-wealth-tax/
The wealth tax would be her first priority because it would help people immediately. MFA would be dealt with separately. But feel free to thread hijack with MFA.
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Hoyt
(54,770 posts)Yet, MFA isnt that popular. Now, thats surprising.
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Bradshaw3
(7,488 posts)Or are you just making it up? I haven't seen those types of interivews.
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FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)The problem is that the news isn't there to help us.
It's there to help them screw us.
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BannonsLiver
(16,294 posts)That generations of Americans have been conditioned to envy the rich and view them as benevolent job creators.
I cant tell you how many times Ive heard yeah theyre rich and dont pay taxes but they create a lot of jobs from otherwise reasonable people.
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Unclephil
(92 posts)I think it was part of part of supply side economics. All I know is I didn't vote for Nixon, Ford, Reagan, Reagan, Bush and Bush again.
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zentrum
(9,865 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
backtoblue
(11,343 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
BlueMTexpat
(15,365 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
redqueen
(115,103 posts)Wonder if other candidates' supporters have started mocking her with taunts about whining. This can be a silly place.
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