Howard Schultz blames his run for president as a third-party candidate on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

[Soph0571]

Schultz seems unfazed. And in fact, he’s doubling down, not only refusing to exit a race he has yet to officially enter, but blasting one of the most popular Democrats to come along in years by slamming one of her signature policies.

The former coffee purveyor who is worth an estimated $3.4 billion is now revealing why he thinks he has to run as a third-party candidate.

“Schultz says he can’t run for president as a Democrat because he doesn’t like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s proposal to slap a 70-percent marginal tax rate on income above $10 million,” The Daily Beast reports.

“I respect the Democratic Party,” Schultz, formerly a life-long Democrat, said Monday. “I no longer feel affiliated because I don’t know their views represent the majority of Americans. I don’t think we want a 70 percent income tax in America,” he explained.

[link:https://www.rawstory.com/2019/01/howard-schultz-blames-run-president-third-party-candidate-alexandria-ocasio-cortez/|

Just fuck off you white male privileged entitled wanker - and that is me being polite about this arse

[Throckmorton]

1. If he runs, our democracy dies.

The plutocrats and demagogue billionaires will crush us like bugs.

[TeamPooka]

2. He sounds like a Republican the way he mischaracterizes the tax proposal.

[tanyev]

3. Newsflash, Howard. The majority of Americans would not be affected by that tax.

[Soph0571]

4. But.... but....

HE WILL!

[Dirty Socialist]

10. But but but

“I wannabe a billionaire!!!”

[dalton99a]

5. Greedy soulless asshole who lies about being a Democrat

[Cha]

6. Nancy on Howard's run..

Link to tweet

[struggle4progress]

7. "Eek! Scary scary Latinos wimminses! Whatever shall we's do?"

[Soph0571]

8. Clever women of colour scare the shit out of this type

[maxsolomon]

9. One assumes Schultz is familiar with OPENING BIDS?

AOC, a freshman congressman, knows that she has zero chance of enacting a 70% marginal tax rate on incomes >10 million/year.

ZERO. Schultz will be moldering in his grave before such a proposal makes it to the floor of the Senate. Hell, AOC will.

I'm sure she'd settle for raising it far south of that number. This isn't a Socialist Paradise like the Eisenhower administration, for goodness' sake!