AOC: Republicans ‘Want to Defend the “Economic Right” for a Company to Poison ... the American People’

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OCASIO-CORTEZ: “There are members here of this committee that want to defend the quote/unquote, 'economic right' for a company to poison its people, the American people. Now when we talk about economic prosperity, if you're a kid in the South Bronx, if you are a mom in rural Pennsylvania near a PFAS dumping site, who comes ahead when you get cancer and have a medical bill to pay? Who comes out ahead from -- from that PFAS dumping? The CEO of DuPont or that mom? So when we talk about the bills and the prosperity that gets made from here, and who has to pay that, we need to understand a very simple economic concept called externalities. Externalities. The cost of pollution, the cost of poisoning that are not factored into the profit margin of the corporation that's actually wreaking havoc on this planet.”