Warren: Corporate Media Should Ask Working People About Her Wealth Tax, Not Just The Very Rich

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'Warren Suggests Corporate Media Ask Working People, Not Just the Very Rich, About Her Wealth Tax.' "Okay, I get it, we have now done the billionaires. How many of the 43 million Americans who are struggling with student loan debt have you seen interviewed?" The Guardian, Nov. 14, 2019.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Wednesday evening called out the news media for focusing their coverage of her proposed Ultra-Millionaires Tax largely on wealthy CEOs' and investors' negative views of the plan rather than those of the working families the senator says would benefit from the redistribution of wealth.

At a town hall attended by 200 SEIU members in Concord, New Hampshire, Warren asked the crowd, "How many billionaires have you seen interviewed in just the last week about this wealth tax?"

"Okay, I get it, we have now done the billionaires," she continued. "How many of the 43 million Americans who are struggling with student loan debt have you seen interviewed?"

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-- Sen. Warren speaks to state employees in Concord, New Hampshire, Nov.13, 2019.

Warren's comments followed her campaign's release of an ad Wednesday targeting powerful political donors like Goldman Sachs chairman Lloyd Blankfein, investor Leon Cooperman, and Trump contributor Peter Thiel—all of whom have been given significant airtime by cable news networks to decry Warren's plan to tax all household assets over $50 million at 2% per year.

Last week, Microsoft founder Bill Gates's well-publicized comments about Warren's proposal inspired the Massachusetts Democrat to add a page to her website showing Gates, Cooperman, and potential 2020 presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg exactly how much they would pay under her plan.

"How many of the people who are struggling to pay childcare around this country have you seen interviewed?" Warren asked Wednesday. "How many of the teachers who are working second and third jobs to try to make ends meet and try to pay off their student loans have you seen interviewed?"

"I am sick of an America that works for the billionaires and doesn't work for anyone else," she added.

Warren's point on Wednesday echoed a remark made by author Anand Giridharadas earlier this week...

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[Funtatlaguy]

1. They don't want positivity toward Warren.

[BeyondGeography]

2. That wasn't the only punch she threw

Link to tweet

[BeckyDem]

14. +1 Bingo

Warren 2020

[Hoyt]

3. Media has asked them, and despite Warren's promise to make wealthy

and corporations pay for healthcare, people are still skeptical of her MFA plan.

There are better ways to tax wealthy including hefty estate taxes, raising tax rates including capital gain rates, etc. The economist she’s been bandying around — Zandi — says the same thing, plus he does not support MFA.

[BeyondGeography]

5. Wealth tax polls at 60-70 percent

Including half of Republicans in this WaPo poll earlier this year:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2019/02/05/over-percent-voters-including-half-republicans-support-elizabeth-warrens-wealth-tax/

The wealth tax would be her first priority because it would help people immediately. MFA would be dealt with separately. But feel free to thread hijack with MFA.

[Hoyt]

6. Does that really surprise you, having someone else pay?

Yet, MFA isn’t that popular. Now, that’s surprising.

[Bradshaw3]

8. Got any links to prove they have asked them?

Or are you just making it up? I haven't seen those types of interivews.

[FiveGoodMen]

4. But they work for the rich. It's right there in the expression "Corporate Media"

The problem is that the news isn't there to help us.

It's there to help them screw us.

[BannonsLiver]

10. the media and the sad reality

That generations of Americans have been conditioned to envy the rich and view them as benevolent “job creators.”

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard “yeah they’re rich and don’t pay taxes but they create a lot of jobs” from otherwise reasonable people.

[Unclephil]

7. This issue of inequality started much earlier than now

I think it was part of part of supply side economics. All I know is I didn't vote for Nixon, Ford, Reagan, Reagan, Bush and Bush again.

[zentrum]

9. Kick.

[backtoblue]

11. K&R nt

[BlueMTexpat]

12. K&R!

[redqueen]

13. Yeah they should. But they won't.

Wonder if other candidates' supporters have started mocking her with taunts about whining. This can be a silly place.