Former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is warning that the country isn’t ready for Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s push to raise the marginal tax rate to 70 percent, and he said U.S. voters don’t want “radical change quickly.”
“A person could say we need to raise taxes a little bit,” Reid told the Nevada Independent. “Again, when you talk about 70 percent and all that, we have to be careful because the American people are very conservative in the sense of not wanting radical change quickly. It just doesn’t work.”
“I think the message has to be we’re a country that is good, that’s always been good,” Reid added. “We’re not talking about make America great again; we’re great now. And I think what we have to do is make sure we do a better job.”
Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., floated raising the marginal tax rate to either 60 or 70 percent on those making $10 million or more in an interview last weekend.
She also got into a Twitter back-and-forth with House Minority Whip Steve Scalise, R-La., who compared GOP efforts on the tax code with hers.
“You’re the GOP Minority Whip. How do you not know how marginal tax rates work?” she said. “Oh that’s right, almost forgot: GOP works for the corporate CEOs showering themselves in multi-million bonuses; not the actual working people whose wages + healthcare they’re ripping off for profit.”
Scalise responded by tweeting out screenshots of people calling on her to harm him over a year after he was shot during practice for the congressional baseball game, adding that it was “clearly not productive” to continue the conversation on Twitter and he was “happy to continue this debate on the Floor of the People’s House.”
[Opinion: Ignore the dancing: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s tax plan is worse than actual socialist countries]
