Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
-
Climate ChangeEnvironment/Energy
Green New Deal Goes Viral, and Fails
by Gregory Wrightstone April 16, 2020Proponents of the Green New Deal (GND) tell us that increasing human carbon dioxide emissions are fueling a dangerous rise in worldwide temperature. They failed to convince the public.
-
Air travel worsens climate crisis – unless passengers are climate activists and wealthy elites.
-
Bravo to AOC and others who dare defy party bigwigs — those in smoke-filled rooms who make the “big” decisions and pull the political strings from afar.
-
Budgets/TaxesGovernment
Widespread Poverty Stats Greatly Overstate the Number of Americans Who Are Destitute
by James Agresti January 27, 2020Contrary to AOC, the facts are clear that frequently reported federal poverty stats vastly overstate the number of Americans who are destitute.
-
Budgets/Taxes
Ocasio-Cortez Never Wants To Hear The Words ‘Free Stuff’ Again
by Chris Talgo January 1, 2020In a town hall in front of her Bronx constituents, Ocasio-Cortez, the self-avowed socialist, decreed, “It’s not that we deserve it because it’s a handout. People like to say, ‘Oh, this is about free stuff.’ This is not about free stuff.”
-
If you believe that a large man in a red suit can fly around the world on a sleigh guided by reindeer and deliver presents to billions of homes on Christmas Eve, then you should also believe in Scandinavian socialism.
-
Health Care
Medicare for All Would Be Quite Costly to Middle Class Americans After All
by Chris Talgo November 14, 2019Sen. Elizabeth Warren, like most of the Democrats running for the party’s 2020 presidential nomination, is all-in on Medicare for All (M4A).
-
Reducing greenhouse gas emissions to curb climate change will require enormous sacrifice.
-
Budgets/TaxesClimate ChangeEnvironment/EnergyFeatured
The Case for a Coercive Green New Deal?
by Richard Ebeling August 12, 2019Social and economic crises, real and imagined, often seem to bring out the most wrongheaded thinking in matters of government policy.
-
The record of theory and history shows that socialist planning is an impossible task.
-
Budgets/Taxes
AOC and Bernie Jump the Shark with Loan Shark Prevention Act
by Chris Talgo June 13, 2019Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) recently introduced the Loan Shark Prevention Act, which they claim will end the plague of unfettered, unscrupulous usury in the United States.
-
Climate ChangeEnvironment/EnergyGovernment
Conservative Authors Laugh at Leftist Doomsday Scenarios
by Nancy Thorner June 6, 2019The quack science hoax of so-called “climate change” is used to terrorize the public into believing that their planet will somehow be destroyed by carbon dioxide.
-
Bernie Sanders and Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez have proposed capping credit card interest rates at 15%