Amish Shah attacked tax cuts, capitalism while praising socialist Squad’s ‘movement’
In uncovered footage, Amish Shah praised the socialist Squad’s “progressive movement” and condemned tax cuts, Ronald Reagan and the capitalist system.
Reminder: Shah demanded a socialist government takeover of healthcare speaking at a Bernie Sanders for President event hosted by the Phoenix Democrat Socialists. Shah vowed to raise taxes by ending the Trump tax cuts in a recent interview.
“Amish Shah’s remarks showed another example of his extreme socialist views. Shah doesn’t just want to massively raise Arizonans’ taxes, he wants far-left socialism, class warfare and wealth redistribution.” – NRCC Spokesperson Ben Petersen
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Amish Shah Bashes Tax Cuts, Capitalism, And Reagan In Unearthed Video
AZ Free News
Matthew Holloway
Democratic Candidate for Congressional District 1 Amish Shah was revealed to have attacked former President Ronald Reagan and the entire system of capitalism in a recently uncovered video from 2018.
In the video footage, Shah is heard to say, “What we’ve got is an economic system here that isn’t fair. People have started to realize this finally after years. What happened with Ronald Reagan starting to cut taxes on the very, very wealthy has now given us the society we have, and this is what the real travesty is.”
In full, Shah offered a distinctly socialist rebuke of Reagan-era conservative reforms, tax cuts that objectively revived the U.S. economy after the disastrous Carter Administration.
“We’re institutionalizing inequality this… this is what we’re doing. Um, what… what we’ve got is an economic system here that isn’t fair,” Shah said.
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And so I’m… I’m happy that what we’re seeing within the democratic party is a… a huge progressive movement that’s coming up and saying this is wrong and we’re going to do something about it.”
Shah’s views do not appear to have changed. In a recent debate featuring Shah, he explained his class warfare argument and even vowed to raise taxes on Arizonans. “I’m not in favor of extending the Trump tax cuts because a lot of the folks that were helped by those were wealthy,” said Shah.
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As previously reported by the New York Post, Shah’s heavily radicalized socialist background has caused significant controversy in recent weeks as ties to Senator Bernie Sanders found him endorsing single-payer socialized medicine.
He recently ran afoul of the City of Tempe for use of mailers depicting a retired Tempe Police officer in full uniform in violation of A.R.S. 9-500.14, which forbids the use of city resources to influence an election.
And further reporting from the Washington Free Beacon also uncovered his rental of a modest condominium in his district and listing of that address for voter registration purposes, instead of his primary residence located in the neighboring third district, in possible violation of Arizona law.