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.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: “And I think that has an additional expense, because when you look at, for example, the GOP tax scam, about 60 percent of…”
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Ocasio-Cortez criticizes the GOP tax cuts for benefiting stock buybacks over the economy.
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