After Screaming ‘Tax the Rich,’ AOC Pushes Federal Spending to Make It Easier To Charge Her Car

New York Democratic Rep. 👤Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez loves the idea of taxing the rich. Why, she adores it so much she even had a high-priced fashion designer craft a dress emblazoned with those very words for the exclusive Met Gala in 2021.

This all raises the question of what AOC wants to spend it on. The easy answer is: What won’t she spend it on? However, dig down a little deeper and you’ll find one of the bills Ocasio-Cortez is a co-sponsor on could have you paying to make it easier for her to charge her electric car.

(Here at The Western Journal, we’ve been chronicling all the handouts the Democratic Party has been giving EV owners — who necessarily are among the highest-earning Americans, considering the fact the average price of an electric vehicle is well over $50,000. We’ll continue pointing out how this is a regressive redistribution of wealth to well-to-do liberal urbanites. You can help us spread the truth by subscribing.)

A little over two years ago — in February of 2020, just before the nation shut down for COVID-19 and we stopped caring about anything else but case counts and Andrew Cuomo’s meandering afternoon pressers — AOC and Michigan Democrat Rep. Andy Levin introduced H.R. 5770, otherwise known as the EV Freedom Act.

“Cars, above all else, have historically represented America’s problem with dirty oil. Establishing a nation-wide network of electric charging stations helps us reduce emissions, creates good-paying jobs, and will help transition the U.S. economy to a cleaner future,” Ocasio-Cortez said at the time, according to industry publication