When it comes to job-killing policies, no one is as bad as leftist Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY). Shark Tank star Kevin O’Leary recently called out AOC for her economic policies that have crippled the state of New York. On the Mar. 3 edition of CNN This Morning, O’Leary spoke about how “uninvestable” states like New York, California, Massachusetts and New Jersey have become. O’Leary noted that businesses have been forced to uproot and move out of New York due to the state’s punitive taxes and regulations.
“She’s great at killing jobs,” O’Leary said of AOC. “She kills jobs by the thousands.” He then pointed to the incident when AOC managed to nix Amazon’s plans to build a headquarters in Queens. “Where did Amazon take their jobs? They took them away from her. She threatened to sue them if they created jobs.”
AOC didn’t take kindly to being called out as a job-killer and took to social media to blast O’Leary. AOC tweeted that if New York is “so ‘uninvestable’, then why is NYC home to some of the most billionaires in the world?”
What AOC failed to mention was the New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli admission to Bloomberg News in December that there’s “‘no doubt there’s been a net migration of taxpayers at the upper end. It should be a concern for everybody.”
This is the real problem with the liberal agenda: they don’t understand the real-world implications of their policies. Their policies of higher taxes, oppressive regulations, and job-killing initiatives hamstrung the states’ ability to create and retain jobs.
It’s time for a change.
We need politicians to stop using our states as a petri dish for radical leftist thinking and move towards policies that will create and retain jobs.
The GOP has long championed policies that will spur job growth and economic development, and it’s time that we embrace those policies to get our country back on track. We can’t continue to let the liberal agenda drive our economy into the ground.