Ocasio-Cortez’s critics might offer the defense that she was vague about how her proposal would be applied to the wealthy, but that won’t wash. She was absolutely precise in her interview on “60 Minutes” with Anderson Cooper, in referring to a marginal rate of 70% on income over $10 million, noting that her proposal “doesn’t mean all $10 million are taxed at an extremely high rate.” On the air, Cooper (a member of the Vanderbilt family, by the way) called her proposal part of “a radical agenda.”

Source: Los Angeles Times January 07, 2019 17:26 UTC