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Omaha Steve

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Thu May 9, 2019, 05:10 PM May 2019

ELIZABETH WARREN CONTINUES TO CLOBBER HER OPPONENTS IN THE WAR FOR BIG TICKET, EAT-THE-RICH POLICIES


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“I got a plan” has become Warren’s rallying cry. Yet she’s still lagging in the polls.
BY ERIC LUTZ
MAY 8, 2019 2:35 PM

It’s become something of a rallying cry for Elizabeth Warren: “I got a plan!” she told crowds in Salt Lake City, Utah, and Houston, Texas, last month, to uproarious cheers. The Massachusetts Senator, currently sitting a distant third or fourth in recent surveys of Democratic voters, has staked her claim to the presidency on a slew of detailed proposals addressing everything from student-loan debt to racial disparities in maternal mortality rates, articulating considered solutions to problems that most of her opponents have merely identified. Her latest pitch? A $100 billion plan revealed Wednesday to combat the opioid epidemic that would provide resources to local governments, particularly the communities that have been hit hardest by the crisis, that would be paid for by her proposed “ultra millionaire tax.”“Too many folks in Washington care more about protecting the wealthy from paying their fair share than they do about solving these kinds of urgent national problems,” she said in a Medium post. “I want to change that.”

Warren’s newest proposal comes ahead of campaign stops in West Virginia and Ohio, states hit hard by the epidemic, and is the 13th policy she’s announced since February. Her proposals have been notable not just for their degree of detail—her plan to erase student-loan debt included a personalized online calculator—but also for their boldness. She’s staked out clear positions on an array of issues, including some that are controversial even within her own party. For instance, while Nancy Pelosi and other top Democrats have shied away from impeachment talk, Warren has called for the president to be held accountable for the misdeeds outlined in Robert Mueller’s report. “This is not about politics,” she said on the Senate floor Tuesday, after calling for Trump’s impeachment on Twitter. “This is about the Constitution.”

FULL story: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/05/elizabeth-warren-continues-to-clobber-2020-opponents-in-war-for-eat-the-rich-policies
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ELIZABETH WARREN CONTINUES TO CLOBBER HER OPPONENTS IN THE WAR FOR BIG TICKET, EAT-THE-RICH POLICIES (Original Post) Omaha Steve May 2019 OP
I honestly beleive that looting by the rich over the last almost 40 years, represents much brewens May 2019 #1
 

brewens

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1. I honestly beleive that looting by the rich over the last almost 40 years, represents much
Thu May 9, 2019, 06:23 PM
May 2019

of our national debt. Many of the people at the top are way in the black on our tax dollars. They rake in way more than they pay out. Look at a corporate officer for a big defense contractor. That's an easy one. Of course almost all of their income is courtesy of us taxpayers. Anyone heavily invested in oil companies and other corporations that do business with the federal, state and local governments comes out ahead if they play it all right. Then they tell us they can't afford to pay any more in taxes.

I'd like to see her pound that!

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