“Through Her Eyes” is a new weekly half-hour show hosted by humanitarian and women’s rights activist Zainab Salbi that aims to explore a hot button news issue through the lens of a female newsmaker. You can watch “Through Her Eyes” every Tuesday at 8 p.m. on the Roku channel, and see full episodes at yahoonews.com.
Weeks after Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., made headlines by calling for a top marginal income tax rate of 70 percent in an interview with “60 Minutes,” her fellow freshman congresswoman, Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., suggested that the rich could pay even more.
“There are a few things that we can do,” Rep. Omar said in an interview with “Through Her Eyes.” “One of them, is that we can increase the taxes that people are paying who are the extremely wealthy in our communities. So, 70 percent, 80 percent, we’ve had it as high as 90 percent. So, that’s a place we can start.”
“The one percent must pay their fair share,” she continued.
Rep. Omar mentioned the tax increase as a way to pay for programs like Medicare for All and the Green New Deal being championed by Rep. Ocasio-Cortez.
The national defense budget is another area Rep. Omar has her eye on.
“I’m also one that really looks at the defense budget that we have, Rep. Omar said. “That has increased nearly 50% since 9/11. And so, most of the money that we have in there is much more than with we spend on education, on healthcare.”
Rep. Omar also spoke with “Through Her Eyes” about her Somali culture and Muslim religion, and about her very personal decision to wear a hijab.
(Watch Minnesota's disgrace at the link)
“I was a teenager when 9/11 happened,” Omar explained. “And I really was uncomfortable with many members of our community feeling like they had to strip themselves of their identity in order to mitigate the violence and the fears that they were feeling. And I thought, you know, the best thing that I could do was to make sure that I was visually showing up in every aspect of society as a visible Muslim so that people can start to associate positive interactions with Muslims.”
Rep. Omar is also the subject of a new documentary, “Time for Ilhan.”
Poster Comment:
This Muslim Negress has very little understanding on how an economy works or of capitalism, which has created the most advanced economy in the history of the world.The very rich pay a good bit in taxes, create many jobs, and give to charity. We need rich people. The more the better.
She should take off her hijab as a sign of respect for the secular nature of the legislative body she is now a part of. The separation of church and state is fundamental, and she is there to do the work of the state. It The hijab is a religious symbol. She should recognize that people are wary (whether for good reason or not) and do what she can to downplay it as an issue.
#1: misterwhite To: IbJensen (#0)
The top 1 percent of taxpayers accounted for more income taxes paid than the bottom 90 percent combined.
But that's not enough? It needs to be even "fairer" than that?
misterwhite posted on 2019-02-01 13:59:42 Reply Private Reply
#2: Justified To: IbJensen (#0)
Truth is the more I see the damage of the rich left I think there should be no deductions over the first 250K of income to stick it to the crazy rich who push socialism while hiding behind major deductions!
Justified posted on 2019-02-01 14:00:25 Reply Private Reply
#3: misterwhite To: IbJensen (#0)
And what would you do with that money?
misterwhite posted on 2019-02-01 14:01:40 Reply Private Reply
#4: Justified To: misterwhite, IbJensen (#1)
Justified posted on 2019-02-01 14:01:40 Reply Private Reply
#5: misterwhite To: Justified (#4)
They would be crazy to support a system which would confiscate their wealth and distribute it to the lower classes.
misterwhite posted on 2019-02-01 14:06:24 Reply Private Reply
#6: IbJensen To: Justified (#4)
Some think like the more sane amongst us do. Taxing anyone into the poor house is just plain stupid! After they get taxed at 70-90 % it will be only a short time before the rest of us are taxed into poverty.
IbJensen posted on 2019-02-01 14:12:47 Reply Private Reply
#7: IbJensen To: misterwhite (#3)
Transfer billions of it to the shithole she crawled out of.
IbJensen posted on 2019-02-01 14:13:44 Reply Private Reply
#8: IbJensen To: Justified (#2)
The death of entrepreneurship guaranteed. The death of small business guaranteed as well. Sloppy thinking on your part.
IbJensen posted on 2019-02-01 14:15:35 Reply Private Reply
#9: Justified To: misterwhite (#5)
Well then they need to stop backing far left people!!!!!
I have no sympathy for those that push socialism on America! Crony capitalism is still socialism by another name.
Justified posted on 2019-02-01 14:17:24 Reply Private Reply
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IbJensen posted on 2019-02-01 14:17:41 Reply Private Reply
#11: Justified To: IbJensen (#8)
I am for small business. Big global business need to be regulated tightly so as not kill the middle class. There is no bigger friend to middle class than the small businessman! Big global business will turn America into a 2 tier system of peons and lords.
Justified posted on 2019-02-01 14:21:05 Reply Private Reply
#12: IbJensen To: Justified (#11)
IbJensen posted on 2019-02-01 14:36:18 Reply Private Reply
#13: misterwhite To: IbJensen (#10)
She's a two hijabber.
misterwhite posted on 2019-02-01 15:56:32 Reply Private Reply
#14: Justified To: IbJensen (#12)
So in the end Let them sleep in the bed they made!
Justified posted on 2019-02-01 15:58:35 Reply Private Reply
#15: IbJensen To: Justified (#14)
IbJensen posted on 2019-02-01 17:09:58 Reply Private Reply
#16: Hank Rearden To: IbJensen (#0)
I hope she doesn't disrespect MY nation's House of Representatives by wearing her religious female-oppression headrag on the floor. That's being insensitive to a normal culture and needs to be punished.
Hank Rearden posted on 2019-02-01 21:01:38 Reply Private Reply