Neil Cavuto Repeatedly Confronts Student Pushing Free College Plan With Harsh Facts, Figures During Cringeworthy 9-Minute Interview

Keely Mullen, an organizer for the Million Student March movement, joined Fox Business Network anchor Neil Cavuto on the air Thursday to discuss the movement's demands for free public college, student debt cancelation and a $15-an-hour minimum wage for student workers. In the awkward 9-minute interview, Cavuto repeatedly cited facts and figures that seemed to fluster the student.

When asked who would pick up the tab for the demands she listed, Mullen said, "The 1 percent of people who are hoarding the wealth and causing a catastrophe students are facing."

"If the 1 percent just had their taxes raised a few years ago back to almost 40 percent then to pay for the healthcare law, they had them raised another few percentage points, then they had their deductions limited to raise another couple points — depending on the state or locality — they're pushing over about 50 percent in taxes," Cavuto told Mullen. "How much more do you think they should pay?"

Cavuto's question, asked within the first two minutes of the interview, became the centerpiece of the entire discussion, as Mullen was unable to provide a clear answer.

Mullen did say the rate should be raised to "enough until we have a system where not one in two families are threatened with poverty." And when asked if she and her friends and family would pay more in taxes for her demands, she said "we already are." However, according to Forbes, 45 percent of households pay no federal income taxes.

Cavuto asked Mullen where the money would come from should "these 1 percent hoarders" leave the country, and Mullen insisted there would always be wealthy people in the U.S. However, later in the interview, Cavuto told his guest that countries around the world, using Greece as an example, have run out of money because the top earners are fleeing.

When Cavuto asked her if she think the 1 percent could actually fund all her demands, Mullen said, "Absolutely." However, Cavuot claimed taxing the 1 percent at 100 percent wouldn't even fund Medicare for three years -- let alone all of her demands for free services.

"They've done studies on this, Keeley, I don't want to get boring here, but even if you were to take the 1 percent and take all of their money — tax it 100 percent — do you know that couldn't keep Medicare, just Medicare, in this country going for three years?" Cavuto asked. "Did you know that?"

"Yeah, I don't believe that," Mullen said in response. "Yeah, I'm sorry, that just sounds completely ludicrous to me."

Toward the end of the interview, Cavuto told Mullen taxing the 1 percent on 100 percent of their income would only yield "about one trillion" toward any entitlement program.

(H/T: Free Beacon)

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