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
Put this stuff in a political ad and she’s toast.
In New York City?????.................
Put a feedbag on this nitwit!
** abilities qualify her for a horizontal position.................?
ABOVE OR BELOW GROUND?
It’s enough to like buy a used car or pay for like most of an orthodontist regimen, like.
[ The freshman Democrat wants more money in her paycheck, calling it a cost of living increase rather than a raise. ]
Just as long as the useful idiots in the Democrat Party keep supporting her.....
It would be hilarious if this were a movie.
...Or buy insulin for a bunch of people............
So, Why in Heck is the cost of living increasing?
If the idiots in Congress would stop and think with their pea-sized brains, by increasing the value of the Dollar, with proper trade and monetary policies, their money is worth more.................
I think that’s waaaay too high................
No law, varying the compensation for the services of the Senators and Representatives, shall take effect, until an election of Representatives shall have intervened.
However, cost-of-living isn't covered, and it's already been adjudicated. Convenient, no?
To AOC it’s 1 shoe ,LOL
State retirees haven’t had a so much as a cost of living raise in forever. While working for the state, there hadn’t been a raise in 14 years.
States usually have a ‘Balanced Budget’ clause in their constitutions..................
For all their yapping about the evils of capitalism and the nasty rich, there are none so greedy in the whole wide world as progressive/socialists, who see nothing wrong whatsoever in helping themselves to other people’s money for their own purposes, wrapping the deed in hot-air morally-superior rhetoric to try to hide their avarice from themselves and others........
The Justice Democrats own AOC. I'm sure they insist she practice their talking points to their satisfaction before they turn her loose on the public.
Purpose? To advance leftism of course.
The media calls AOC a 'star.' Sure she is/s. More like a PITA.
From bar wench to bubble-headed tyrant, this broad needs to be knocked off her throne.
I hope her constituents ditch the Democrat party some day.
She is so brainless. But she does have Congress figured out...you go there to make money.
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