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Howie Hawkins, the Green Party candidate for New York State governor, touted the ‘Tax the Rich for a Green New Deal’ program.
“Democrats are still living off the legacy of the New Deal,” Hawkins said. “They’re not new Democrats; they’re old New Deal Democrats. We need to take a new direction here.
“We shouldn’t have state workers and the general public taking on this deficit,” Hawkins continued. “If the rich paid their fair share, we wouldn’t have this deficit. In the program I propose, we’d have a $25 billion surplus and then we could create jobs … and have money for schools and such.”
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