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Socialist AOC targets billionaires — and aims to make us all poorer

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez doesn’t believe in billionaires. 

On a podcast the other day, she said that it’s impossible to make a billion dollars without lying, cheating or stealing. 

“There’s a certain level of wealth and accumulation that is unearned, right,” AOC declared.

“You can’t earn a billion dollars. You just can’t earn that.

“You can get market power, you can break rules, you can abuse labor laws, you can pay people less than what they’re worth, but you can’t earn that.”

The New York congresswoman makes it sound as though our billionaires are the equivalent of Russian oligarchs who got their riches through government favor, when in reality they tend to be epic entrepreneurs and legendary investors who create stupendous value out of nothing. 

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Typical of her, AOC is taking a strength of American society — its openness to talent and innovation — and portraying it as a fundamental problem.

No rational person looks at the top 10 list of wealthiest people in the United States and thinks, “What have any of those people........

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