Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), a 2020 contender, hosted a campaign rally in Columbus, Ohio Friday night where she received thunderous applause while discussing her controversial wealth tax.
āIām tired of freeloading billionaires,ā Warren said Friday night after campaigning across West Virginia earlier in the day.
In January, Warren floated the idea of introducing a two percent incremental wealth tax on those who are worth more than $50 million. A Forbes analysis found that the tax would cost the countryās wealthiest $85 billion a year.
Warren discussed the proposal Friday night and provided a laundry list of the kinds of programs she would pay for with the new taxes.
āHereās what you can get: universal child care every baby age zero to five. But thatās not all. Universal pre-k for every three-year-old and four-year-old in this country. Raise the wages of every child care worker and pre-school worker to a professional wage level like theyāre entitled to. But Iām not through yet,ā she said. āWe can do all of that and we can make every technical school, two-year college, and four-year college tuition and fee free in America.ā
āTuition and fee free on all of our public colleges and universitiesāthink about thisāand we can cancel student loan debt for 95 percent,ā she continued, before being cut off by cheers from the crowd.
āAnd hereās whatās amazing: we can do all of that and still have $100 billion to attack the opioid epidemic head on and bring it to the ground,ā Warren concluded.
Mandi Merritt, Ohio spokeswoman for the Republican National Committee, said Warrenās ābillion dollar proposals of hiking taxes and giving government control of health care, jobs, and education would spell disaster for Ohio families.ā
āBut clearly, nobody knows how to win Ohio better than Elizabeth Warren, as evidenced by her many attempts to prop up Governor Richard Cordray⦠oh wait,ā Merritt continued.
Cordray, who lost the 2018 Ohio gubernatorial election to Gov. Mike DeWine, was spotted in attendance at the Warren rally Friday night.
Rich Cordray at this @ewarren event in Columbus hanging with @darreldrowland pic.twitter.com/0ItllhBxIg
— Plunderbund (@plunderbund) May 10, 2019
Warren was introduced by Columbus City Council President Shannon Hardin, who expressed support for Warrenās plan to cancel student loan debt.
While I havenāt endorsed, I heard she has a plan for the student debt crisis…And that means a whole heck of a lot to me and my HBCU brothers and sisters https://t.co/0XWHnVp0VX
— Shannon Hardin (@SG_Hardin) May 10, 2019
Warrenās full Columbus rally can be watched below:
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Photo “Elizabeth Warren” by Elizabeth Warren. Background Photo “Elizabeth Warren Rally” by WBNS.
I worked hard to pay off my student loans. I wonder if sheāll give me āstudent loan reparationsā?
I already commented on this crazy woman who wants to drag our Country down to be like Venezuela. I hope you’re not crazy enough to believe all that crap.