March 10, 2019
Ocasio-Cortez’s failed company is a tax deadbeat: warrant filed over unpaid taxes to New York State
By Thomas Lifson
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https://www.americanthinker.com/blo...iled_over_unpaid_taxes_to_new_york_state.html
Despite being the object of a huge amount of media attention, few people seem to know that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tried to be an entrepreneur and fell flat on her face. Her media pals certainly have no interest in publicizing the fact the she embraced socialism after she proved to be utterly, embarrassingly incompetent at earning her way. Monica Showalter asked the key question on these pages last summer: “Did Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's socialist fanaticism come from bitter failure in business?
Now, thanks to digging by the New York Post, we know that:
The backstory on Brook Avenue Press:
The Post covered the debut of the "hipster collective" in 2010:
Ocasio-Cortez produced this embarrassing promotional video about her venture in 2011, revealing not only grandiose plans that never got close to becoming real, but also showing that since then, she has had an astonishing makeover from nerd to socialist glamour-puss:
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At the time I wrote about it, this video had received only a few hundred views, which is astonishing, considering how prominent she already was. Even today, it has only 13,377 views as of this writing. Her fanboys and fangirls remain blissfully ignorant. But equally astonishing is the difference between then and now in terms of her appearance. I asked last summer: “Who was behind Alexandria Ocasio Cortez’s astonishing makeover?
Pretty clearly, she was not up to the responsibility of actually running a venture. The Post noted:
In addition to failing at developing any products that people would voluntarily pay money for, Ocasio-Cortez also failed to keep on top of her tax obligations, leading to her tax delinquency and eventual warrant issued against her company. In fact, it appears that she let the company go out of business, and promptly consigned it to the Memory Hole, leaving New York State’s tax collectors high and dry:
If Ocasio-Corte were a conservative, she'd be constantly hounded for comment. Do you think the 90% of the media that is progresive will give this story any prominence?
It’s easy to advocate high taxes on successful people if you don’t pay your own tax bills, of course. But I suspect the real lesson is not so much that Ocasio-Cortez is getting rich off of evading the rules, but rather that she is a total failure at anything requiring practical responsibility, attention to detail, and following the law. After failing, she retreated into the gauzy generalizations of socialism. It is so much easier than running a business to appropriate other people’s money -- from the successful ones who do follow the rules and work the 70 hour weeks necessary to make a success of an entrepreneurial venture, juggling the balls, bearing the risk, and ultimately succeeding. That money can support the lifestyles of “those unwilling to work,” but only until they “eventually run out of other people’s money” – as is happening in Venezuela right now.
Do voters really want to put their future in the hands of someone this irresponsible?
Pre-makeover version (YouTube sreen grab, cropped)
Ocasio-Cortez’s failed company is a tax deadbeat: warrant filed over unpaid taxes to New York State
By Thomas Lifson
A
https://www.americanthinker.com/blo...iled_over_unpaid_taxes_to_new_york_state.html
Despite being the object of a huge amount of media attention, few people seem to know that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tried to be an entrepreneur and fell flat on her face. Her media pals certainly have no interest in publicizing the fact the she embraced socialism after she proved to be utterly, embarrassingly incompetent at earning her way. Monica Showalter asked the key question on these pages last summer: “Did Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's socialist fanaticism come from bitter failure in business?
Now, thanks to digging by the New York Post, we know that:
The backstory on Brook Avenue Press:
The Post covered the debut of the "hipster collective" in 2010:
Ocasio-Cortez produced this embarrassing promotional video about her venture in 2011, revealing not only grandiose plans that never got close to becoming real, but also showing that since then, she has had an astonishing makeover from nerd to socialist glamour-puss:
A
[ame="http://youtube.com/watch?v=-pFAayEMqDM"]Brook Avenue Press - YouTube[/ame]
A
At the time I wrote about it, this video had received only a few hundred views, which is astonishing, considering how prominent she already was. Even today, it has only 13,377 views as of this writing. Her fanboys and fangirls remain blissfully ignorant. But equally astonishing is the difference between then and now in terms of her appearance. I asked last summer: “Who was behind Alexandria Ocasio Cortez’s astonishing makeover?
Pretty clearly, she was not up to the responsibility of actually running a venture. The Post noted:
In addition to failing at developing any products that people would voluntarily pay money for, Ocasio-Cortez also failed to keep on top of her tax obligations, leading to her tax delinquency and eventual warrant issued against her company. In fact, it appears that she let the company go out of business, and promptly consigned it to the Memory Hole, leaving New York State’s tax collectors high and dry:
If Ocasio-Corte were a conservative, she'd be constantly hounded for comment. Do you think the 90% of the media that is progresive will give this story any prominence?
It’s easy to advocate high taxes on successful people if you don’t pay your own tax bills, of course. But I suspect the real lesson is not so much that Ocasio-Cortez is getting rich off of evading the rules, but rather that she is a total failure at anything requiring practical responsibility, attention to detail, and following the law. After failing, she retreated into the gauzy generalizations of socialism. It is so much easier than running a business to appropriate other people’s money -- from the successful ones who do follow the rules and work the 70 hour weeks necessary to make a success of an entrepreneurial venture, juggling the balls, bearing the risk, and ultimately succeeding. That money can support the lifestyles of “those unwilling to work,” but only until they “eventually run out of other people’s money” – as is happening in Venezuela right now.
Do voters really want to put their future in the hands of someone this irresponsible?
Pre-makeover version (YouTube sreen grab, cropped)
