Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's radical tax plan gains an unlikely ally: Ann Coulter

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.)
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Conservatives spent Friday morning ripping Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's (D-N.Y.) proposed income tax on the super rich. But one of them still has her back.

In a 60 Minutes interview set to air Sunday, the freshman Democrat told Anderson Cooper her Green New Deal could be funded with a 70 percent income tax on $10 million annual earners. But while The Daily Wire's Ben Shapiro went so far as to call her "bats--t insane," conservative author Ann Coulter tweeted support for the idea — with a slight twist.

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Kathryn Krawczyk

Kathryn is a graduate of Syracuse University, with degrees in magazine journalism and information technology, along with hours to earn another degree after working at SU's independent paper The Daily Orange. She's currently recovering from a horse addiction while living in New York City, and likes to share her extremely dry sense of humor on Twitter.