Coming soon to a Democratic Party presidential debate: the question, "Is it morally appropriate for anyone to be a billionaire?"
A version of the query was raised earlier this month by the author Ta-Nehisi Coates. He was interviewing a new Democratic congresswoman from New York, the self-described socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, about, among other things, her plan to raise top marginal income tax rates as high as 70%.
Massachusetts U.S. Senator Ed Markey is calling Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's promise to hold a floor vote on Markey's Green New Deal resolution a "Republican trick."
Markey (D-Malden) tweeted his disapproval of McConnell's statement on Tuesday, February 12: