By Craig Bannister | August 20, 2019 | 3:30 PM EDT
Echoing the “You didn’t build that†claim made famous by former President Barack Obama, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) made a pitch for a new tax while addressing the Black Church PAC's Youth Leadership Conference in Atlanta on Saturday.
But, Obama’s controversial 2012 comment actually appears to have been a paraphrase of remarks Warren made a year earlier when she was running her successful campaign to unseat incumbent Republican Senator Scott Brown.
On Saturday, promoting her proposal for a new “wealth tax,†Democrat presidential hopeful Warren told her audience that, if any of them have built a fortune, they didn’t do it on their own, because “all of us helped†them:
“Anybody in here own a home? You’ve been paying a wealth tax for a long time: it’s just called a property tax.
“And, what I’m saying that’s different, is for the truly rich – more than $50 million in assets – it’s more than your real estate: it’s your stock portfolio, the diamonds, the Rembrandt, the yacht – I just want them all included in how we think about wealth. And, I say to those folks: good for you; you made it big.
“But, I guarantee, you didn’t build a fortune in America without using workers that all of us helped pay to educate.
“You built a fortune in America getting your goods to market on roads and bridges that all of us helped pay to build.
“You are protected by police and firefighters – all of us paid their salaries.â€
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