Ocasio-Cortez demands de Blasio, Cuomo raise taxes on New Yorkers already hard hit by pandemic

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Ocasio-Cortez demands de Blasio, Cuomo raise taxes on New Yorkers already hard hit by pandemic
September 24, 2020 | Jon Dougherty

Socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is calling on New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and Gov. Andrew Cuomo to raise taxes at a time when millions of residents are suffering economically due to pandemic-related job losses.

“I’m calling on Mayor de Blasio and Gov. Cuomo to raise revenue to fund universal child-care programs, significantly increase staffing at schools and fund the infrastructure improvements, including ventilation, that our school buildings need to be safe,” the New York congresswoman said in a statement obtained by the New York Post.

She said her call for new taxes comes after discussions with parents and teachers from her district that schools are not yet ready to reopen due to safety concerns.

“It’s clear that there’s significant evidence to suggest that schools are not safe to re-open,” she said. “Poorly ventilated and unsanitized classrooms, ambiguous or ineffective health screening, COVID testing and contact tracing protocols, and severe staffing shortages, on top of COVID cases in at least 55 schools, all indicate we are not ready to re-open.”

Her claim about widespread COVID in district schools is at odds with a new study from Brown University conducted in conjunction with more than 550 schools across 46 states. During a two-week period beginning Aug. 31, the incidence of coronavirus infection among teachers and students was less than 1 percent, the study found.

Meanwhile, Ocasio-Cortez also lambasted de Blasio for stripping $700 million in funding from schools “but cut almost nothing meaningful from NYPD.”

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https://www.bizpacreview.com/2020/09/24/ocasio-cortez-demands-de-blasio-cuomo-raise-taxes-on-new-yorkers-already-hard-hit-by-pandemic-976388

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Yeah and do it on the uber wealthy and the corporations, so we can drive more of them out just like she did with Amazon. She is Nucking Futz

[Smokin Joe]

Yeah and do it on the uber wealthy and the corporations, so we can drive more of them out just like she did with Amazon. She is Nucking Futz

The bartender has a steady paycheck. Why should she give a damn about the hoi polloi? She already ran off 10,000 jobs for her home district. Surely she can spread more misery around.

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Exclusive video of AOC making her demands.