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Ocasio-Cortez: $4,500 Pay Hike for Congress ‘Not Even, Like, a Raise’
ntknetwork.com ^ | 06.11.2019 @12:51pm | Staff

Posted on 06/11/2019 11:02:06 AM PDT by Red Badger

The freshman Democrat wants more money in her paycheck, calling it a cost of living increase rather than a raise.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) said that she doesn’t believe that a $4,500 pay increase for members of Congress should be a considered a raise but rather a cost of living increase.

She argued that members of Congress aren’t paid enough, and so they often turn to lobbying or other related fields in which they can make more money. The current base salary for a member of Congress is $174,000. The average American’s salary is $56,616.

.@AOC defends a $4,500 pay raise for herself: "It's not even like a raise." pic.twitter.com/ugFaZuSm7c — Molly Prince (@mollyfprince) June 11, 2019

“Members of Congress, retail workers, everybody should get cost of living increases to account for the changes in our economy, and then when we don’t do that, it only increases the pressure on members to exploit loopholes like insider trading loopholes to make it on the backend.”

Ocasio-Cortez called opposition to the pay hike “superficial” and argued everyone should get a pay raise.

“It may be politically convenient, and it may make you look good in the short term for saying, ‘Oh, we’re not voting for pay increases,’ but we should be fighting for pay increase for every American worker,” she said. “We should be fighting for a $15 minimum wage tied to inflation so that everybody in the United States with a salary, with a wage, gets a cost of living increase.”

“You can vote against pay increases all you want. In my opinion, voting against a pay – it’s not even like a raise, it’s a cost of living adjustment. So, you can vote against a cost of living adjustment all you want,” Ocasio-Cortez said, but that’s just going to contribute to member burn out and corruption.

Voting to increase her own pay “may not be great optics,” she admitted, but she reiterated that it was the right thing to do.

Yep. Voting against cost of living increases for members of Congress may sound nice, but doing so only increases pressure on them to keep dark money loopholes open.

This makes campaign finance reform *harder.*

ALL workers deserve cost of living increases, incl min wage workers. https://t.co/fCdgHKx4G1 — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) June 11, 2019


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; Politics/Elections; US: New York
KEYWORDS: congress; crazywmomen; payraise
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To: Red Badger

$4500 is most assuredly a raise. This woman is completely out of her mind and completely out of touch.


21 posted on 06/11/2019 11:14:32 AM PDT by dinodino
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To: Red Badger

The only giant sucking sound that persists seems to be Congress bellying on up to the bar.


22 posted on 06/11/2019 11:14:48 AM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: Red Badger

So, she is advocating for elective politics as a life-long profession.

Incumbency has been one of the major problems with elective politics.

Hints are that she wants to jump over to the Senate. As soon as she is eligible she will become a fixture running for the presidency every 4 years.


23 posted on 06/11/2019 11:15:57 AM PDT by TomGuy
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To: Zathras

I doubt that such a statement would be true in terms of constant Dollars.


24 posted on 06/11/2019 11:16:00 AM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: Red Badger

“Her abilities qualify her for a horizontal position.................”

Maybe at the minimum wage ...


25 posted on 06/11/2019 11:16:58 AM PDT by riverdawg
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To: Red Badger

AOC is one of the many poster children for the incredibly out of touch, irrational democrats.


26 posted on 06/11/2019 11:17:17 AM PDT by Tudorfly (All things are possible within the will of God.)
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To: Red Badger

Like OH MY GOD!!!!!!

https://youtu.be/p-LArv-sEQU


27 posted on 06/11/2019 11:17:38 AM PDT by bryan999
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To: Red Badger
I haven't had a new car in 37 years, taken no vacations, put my own kids thru college, use only an American Express card (pay in full monthly), walk my dogs for leisure, exercise, and psychological advice.

What type of raise I get or don't get effects me not a bit.

28 posted on 06/11/2019 11:18:06 AM PDT by blackdog
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To: Red Badger
She argued that members of Congress aren’t paid enough, and so they often turn to lobbying or other related fields in which they can make more money.

Yeah, hardly anyone in Congress ever runs for re-election, because the pay and benefits are so terrible.

29 posted on 06/11/2019 11:18:18 AM PDT by FoxInSocks ("Hope is not a course of action." -- M. O'Neal, USMC)
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To: DoodleDawg
Works for me. I'm all for Congress getting paid $15 per hour as their minimum wage for freshmen representatives and senators.

You know, that is SUCH a fantastic idea... let's make it a maximum wage too.

30 posted on 06/11/2019 11:18:37 AM PDT by C210N (You can vote your way into Socialism; but, you have to shoot your way out of it.)
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To: Red Badger

Where's her wealth distribution talk now?
31 posted on 06/11/2019 11:19:11 AM PDT by proust (Justice delayed is injustice.)
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To: Red Badger

You have to give her credit for a creative argument. Pay Congress more and they won’t have to sell out to corporations.


32 posted on 06/11/2019 11:20:09 AM PDT by JWNM
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To: blackdog

If I asked my boss for a $4500 raise, he’d have me committed.............


33 posted on 06/11/2019 11:20:21 AM PDT by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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To: albie; null and void; aragorn; azishot; AZ .44 MAG; Baynative; Beautiful_Gracious_Skies; bgill; ...
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That’s like 375 like dollars like per like month

34 posted on 06/11/2019 11:21:08 AM PDT by LucyT (https://www.gofundme.com/TheTrumpWall)
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To: JWNM

That is impressive: I’m not a public servant, I’m a whore that goes to the highest bidder!


35 posted on 06/11/2019 11:21:13 AM PDT by proust (Justice delayed is injustice.)
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To: blackdog

“She has like not even a brain.”

Literally, dude!


36 posted on 06/11/2019 11:23:12 AM PDT by equaviator (There's nothing like the univ"erse to bring you down to earth.)
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To: Red Badger

If I got a $4500 raise I would immediately move it to salary deferral plans and STFU.


37 posted on 06/11/2019 11:24:44 AM PDT by blackdog
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To: Red Badger

They have driven us to 22 trillion reported debt. They should get nothing that seems like as much as a 10 cent per year raise


38 posted on 06/11/2019 11:25:25 AM PDT by stanne
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To: blackdog

If I got a $4500 raise I would have a heart attack!................


39 posted on 06/11/2019 11:25:27 AM PDT by Red Badger (We are headed for a Civil War. It won't be nice like the last one....................)
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To: Red Badger

No money for congress critters or senate critters until the border is sealed and all illegal aliens deported.


40 posted on 06/11/2019 11:25:50 AM PDT by Nuc 1.1 (Nuc 1 Liberals aren't Patriots. Remember 1789!)
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