Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez began her term as the youngest woman ever elected to the US Congress with a bang this week by proposing to tax the ultra-rich at 60 or 70 percent. The daughter of working-class parents, the 29-year-old New Yorker was following up on her campaign promise. “People are going to have to pay their fair share of taxes,” the Democrat told CBS television’s “60 Minutes”.
America’s youngest congresswoman launches radical plan to tax the rich
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