Eastman plagiarizes socialist message

Copycat Comrade Kara took to Twitter this morning with some pretty deep sounding socialist thought. What she left out was that she was plagiarizing a leftist professor’s column that was published a few hours earlier.

What Eastman excluded from her plagiarized summary was the price tag for proposed socialist programs, a combined $2-3 TRILLION per year, and her argument for higher taxes for ALL Americans.

Here’s a comparison between Comrade Kara’s tweet and Northwestern University Professor Monica Prasad’s column this morning arguing for higher taxes and more government spending:

Comrade Kara: Ending the #OpioidCrisis could pay for itself in health care savings.
Professor Prasad: Solving the opioid crisis could pay for itself in the savings in health care costs it brings.  

Comrade Kara: Debt-free college would increase the employability of Americans.
Professor Prasad: Free college for all would dramatically upgrade the skills of the American middle and working classes.

Comrade Kara: Universal child care frees up work time dealing with child care struggles.
Professor Prasad: Universal child care would free up hours of employee time spent on child-care hassles.

Comrade Kara: Government programs can be the foundation of economic growth.
Professor Prasad: If you care about the fate of government, the thing to listen for in the Democratic debates isn’t just proposals for taxing the wealthy, it’s whether any candidate has the ability to explain how taxes benefit everyone, individually and collectively, and why government programs can be the foundation of economic growth. The Democratic candidate who can do that will finally break the grip that Ronald Reagan still has on our country’s finances.