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“I want to stop the spread. They are picking homes like you, and I pick tomatoes in the grocery store.”
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On the recordMay 14, 2019
And I think that has an additional expense, because when you look at, for example, the GOP tax scam, about 60 percent of all of those proceeds went to stock buybacks.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Democratic · New York
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Ocasio-Cortez criticizes the GOP tax cuts for benefiting stock buybacks over the economy.

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