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Warren speaks of opportunity during Hollis stop

By Mathew Plamondon - Staff Writer | Sep 28, 2019

HOLLIS – “I’m not proposing a wealth tax because I’m cranky,” Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren declared during her Friday campaign rally before several hundred spectators at Lawrence Barn Community Center.

Warren claims her wealth tax will generate $2.75 trillion in revenue. It would apply to every dollar of a rich person’s accumulated wealth in excess of $50 million.

She said this would help to pay for universal child care and pre-K throughout the country, higher wages for every child care and preschool teacher, and universal tuition-free college education.

“I guarantee, you built a great fortune, you built it, in part, using workers all of us helped pay to educate; you built it, at least in part, getting your goods to market on roads and bridges all of us paid to build; you built it, at least in part, protected by police and firefighters all of us helped to pay their salaries,” Warren said in making her claim that those who are wealthy should pay more in taxes.

Warren is now running close to the top or at the top of polls for New Hampshire’s first-in-the-nation presidential primary.

She made two stops in Hollis on Friday, one at Lull Farm, where she stopped with her husband Bruce, to sample some local products. It was then on to Lawrence Barn, where she continued to talk to the media and supporters about the policies she looks to implement as the leader of the U.S.

Despite this week’s official launch of an impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump – a step Warren advocated for several months ago – Warren did not speak about this during her regular speech. However, she did address the topic with members of the media afterward.

“I don’t think that this impeachment inquiry is about politics at all. When the Mueller report came out, it clearly established three things. A hostile foreign government attacked our 2016 elections for the purposes of helping Donald Trump. As a candidate, Donald Trump welcomed that help,” Warren said. “And then as president of the United States, when the federal government tried to investigate what Russia had done, he was willing to obstruct justice multiple times.”

“I called for impeachment then because I believed it was clear the president had broken the law, and that Congress needed to hold him accountable,” she added.

“The president proved again in July, that we know about, that he is willing to reach out to a foreign government and ask them to interfere in our elections,” Warren said. “That is illegal and the way to hold this president of the United States accountable is to impeach him. So I hope we go forward with care and deliberation, but that we do it deliberately, but that we do it quickly. I think that that’s important.

“The American people are counting on us, Congress, to do our constitutional duty,” she added.

Prior to taking questions from the media, Warren talked to her supporters about her ideas for big structural change, including attacking corruption, implementing fair wages, and imposing her two-cent wealth tax, among other things.

On the topic of a livable wage, Warren compared the difference between what minimum wage would get you when she was a child as to compared to how insufficient today’s wages are.

“When I was a girl, a full-time minimum wage job in America could support a family of three. It would pay the mortgage, cover utilities, and put food on the table,” she said. “Today, a full-time minimum wage job in America will not keep momma and her baby out of poverty. That is wrong and that is why I am in this fight.”

She said the fundamental problem boils down to big corporations and their relationship with politicians.

“It’s not an accident that it has changed – it’s about who our government works for,” she said. “When I was a girl… the question was, ‘What does it take a family of three to survive in America.’ Today, the question asked in Washington is, ‘Where do we set the minimum wage to maximize the profits of giant multi- national corporations.'”

Warren said her policies, would give Americans countless opportunities throughout their lives.

“It’s about opportunity for every kid in this country to get a first-rate education, opportunity for everyone to be able to get a good job, start a business, start a farm.”

Mathew Plamondon may be reached at 594-1244, or mplamondon@nashuatelegraph.com, @telegraph_MatP.

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