Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez responded to critics who criticized her for promoting a $58 hoodie with the slogan ‘tax the rich’, arguing that the charge is justified because ‘we don’t use the hard work of slaves’.
The 31-year-old Socialist Democrat on Thursday defended his now-sold sweater and attacked Donald Trump and his supporters, the difference between his products and his MAGA team is that “ours is made in America. “
AOC, which has six-figure Congressional revenue, shared a link to the blue T-shirt on Twitter on Wednesday night and wrote, ”Advance orders are now open. As always, manufactured in the United States with decent, unionized jobs that pay a wage. .
But without delay he faced an online reaction when social media users questioned the price, given AOC’s anti-capitalist stance and orders for a multimillion-dollar tax in New York.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez responded to critics who criticized her for promoting a $58 hoodie with the slogan ” taxes the rich’,” claiming that the charge is justified because ” we don’t use slave labor’.
The U. S. representative for the 14th Congressional District of New York applauded that courage values it and retwapping a message from someone who said that “this is what it costs to pay everyone a decent wage along the way. “
“Republicans are panicking because we don’t use slave hard work for the merchandise budgeted by the base organization,” he wrote Thursday.
But what’s the difference between Trump’s derivatives and ours?Ours is manufactured in the U. S. (And for the Republican Party that jokes that we deserve to give [sweaters] for free, we do it: volunteer.
In a follow-up tweet, he added, ‘Ah, and by the way: it taxes the rich. ”
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