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Now the Democrat Party has tilted so far left that it threatens to collapse any day. Just look at what remains of the party’s presidential hopefuls. Elizabeth Warren wants to arm the IRS (not literally but with more pencils) to punish the wealthiest people in the country. It doesn’t matter to her if they made their money by working hard, then creating jobs. She believes that the money belongs to the government. Of course, that didn’t stop her from making almost $500,000 a year from teaching one class at Harvard. It’s no wonder why college tuition is through the roof!

Kamala Harris wants to get rid of all private health care and replace it with a single-payer government-issued model. The fact that the US government owes $122 trillion in unfunded liabilities such as Social Security and Medicare doesn’t even faze her. Just dump more debt on the pile, and let our children figure out how to pay for it.

Then there are the future leaders of the Socialist, I mean, Democrat, Party. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, and Ayanna Pressley, or “the Squad,” as they’re commonly known, stand somewhere left of Chairman Mao. Their radical beliefs have real-world consequences.

As you might remember, a few years back, Amazon, the world’s largest internet retailer, announced it was beginning a search for a new headquarters. The announcement was big news and caused quite a stir. Nearly every major city in the country wanted to be picked, with most offering Amazon billions of dollars in tax breaks and subsidies. One smaller city even promised to change its name to Amazon and proclaim Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos its king—a little excessive, if you ask me, but you really couldn’t blame it. After all, the proposed headquarters promised to be one of the largest corporate investments in US history, creating fifty thousand high-paying tech jobs.

After a fourteen-month search, Amazon decided on two sites instead of one. The lucky winners were northern Virginia and a neighborhood in Queens, New York, called Long Island City. There was a lot of disappointment across the country, but for Queens and New York City, it was like hitting the lottery. Not only did it mean twenty-five thousand high-paying jobs—six-figure jobs in a city that badly needed the revenue—but also union construction jobs, service industry jobs, and a massive infusion of cash into the local economy. Any way you looked at it, it was a good deal—at least to people who know what a good deal looks like.

Obviously, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is not one of those people. Here’s what the princess of the socialist Democrat Party had to say: “Frankly, if we were willing to give away $3 billion for this deal, we could invest those $3 billion in our district ourselves if we wanted to. We could hire out more teachers. We can fix our subways.”

Apparently, AOC was under the impression that New York City was going to write Amazon a check for $3 billion. She had no idea what a tax incentive is or what it does. The $3 billion Amazon would save in taxes would go toward construction and salaries that would, in turn, be taxed, creating nearly $30 billion in revenue for the city and community by some estimates. When Amazon saw the socialist stink that AOC and others put up, the company backed out of the deal quicker than Bernie Sanders can comb his hair. Uh-uh, the folks there thought, no way are we going to build in Queens, not when two hundred other cities are lining up to give us tax breaks. On February 14, 2019, Amazon officially pulled out of the deal. Although it didn’t mention AOC by name in the announcement, it was pretty clear who it was talking about. It read in part: “a number of state and local politicians [who] have made it clear that they oppose our presence and will not work with us to build the type of relationships that are required to go forward with the project we and many others envisioned in Long Island City.”

Now, I’m not saying that Amazon was an innocent bystander in the collapse of the deal. It is a ruthless corporation that has practices that you don’t have to be socialist to dislike. It turned their back on the people of Queens without giving it so much as a second thought. Jeff Bezos, the supposed champion of the free press, had about as much compassion for the people of Queens as a Mafia hit man.

The main villain, however, was the freshman member of Congress who couldn’t name the three branches of government when she was elected and didn’t know the basic economics of a tax break.

People who think socialists who shut down deals like the Amazon one in Queens are working for the greater good have it backward; AOC is working against the interests of the people she represents. Nearly single-handedly, she ruined a deal that would have brought tens of thousands of jobs to her neighboring district, tens of billions of dollars to the city she represents, and the headquarters of one of the biggest tech companies in the world to Queens.

She was only getting started.

The idea for the Green New Deal began with a group called the Sunrise Movement, started by recent college graduate environmental activists who drew inspiration from Occupy Wall Street and Black Lives Matter. Some even say their roots can be traced back to Saul Alinsky, the gift to the right who keeps on giving. Alinsky, as you might remember, wrote a book back in 1971 called Rules for Radicals in which he cited Lucifer as the father of the radical movement. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton both idolized Alinsky.

The Sunrise Movement started to get notoriety when some of its members staged a sit-in in Nancy Pelosi’s office. It is also the group responsible for the famous YouTube video in which Senator Dianne Feinstein scolds a bunch of children as young as seven. The children were recruited by the movement as a publicity stunt and to put pressure on the senator to back the Green New Deal.

“You know better than I do, so I think one day you should run for the Senate and then you do it your way,” Ms. Feinstein told one of the girls.

“Great,” she replied. “I will.”

But it was when AOC joined forces with Sunrise that the group’s Green New Deal really gained momentum. Along with her cosponsor in the Senate, Edward J. Markey, a Democrat from Massachusetts, AOC introduced the ridiculous resolution to Congress.

If you’re not familiar with the details of the proposal, allow me to give you some of the high points. First off, it would cost US taxpayers almost $100 trillion dollars—$93 trillion to be precise, since I’ve stumped a lot on it. That’s trillion with a t . To put that number into perspective, the US government has annual revenues of about $6 trillion. So AOC and her socialist pals want to spend what would be the equivalent of about fifteen years of the US government’s revenue to stop cows from farting, eliminate air travel, build an underground tunnel from California to Hawaii, and fund people who don’t want to work.

If we spent nothing on the military, nothing on entitlements, and nothing on education and focused only on farting cows, in fifteen years we might be able to pay for AOC’s Green New Deal. In the meantime, we would wreck the US economy and actually do little to clean up the environment. The proposal calls for covering hundreds of thousands of acres of land with windmills and solar panels, which would do irreparable damage to land on which wildlife is protected by federal statutes. It also addresses only the United States’ carbon emissions and gives countries like China and India a pass for a decade. I’m no scientist, but I’m pretty sure we can’t keep China’s dirty air from sneaking into the atmosphere over the United States. I am pretty good at economics, though, and economists have a term for that type of thinking: freaking stupid. AOC once said that people her age should reconsider having children because of global warming. Can you imagine? I think the best answer to that ridiculous statement was by my friend, Jerry Falwell, Jr., “People her age should reconsider having children if people like AOC ever get to be in charge of this country.”