AOC is going to do this noble act and still stay within budget by cutting the salaries of other, more senior members of her staff. She will not be giving up anything and will retain all of her lucrative Congressional salary.
No matter what AOC pays her staff it's no skin off her nose. The money comes from taxpayers, not her. She has never owned a business nor met a payroll, so why should be care, beyond the publicity that is?
For that much money I’d go down on her.
Send her to Venezuela and let the Venezuelans eat her.
Or clean their rifles with her.
I’m OK with either one.
She’s didn’t say that or write that comment. If she did she would have said:
“Like to pay my staff a living wage, I am like totally going to pay them like a gabillion zillon tippy top dollars”
LET’S BRING BACK THE 5 CENT CANDY BAR
When politicians particularly members of today’s in name only democrat party started pushing for a higher minimum wage. The focus should have been on purchasing power of the lowest coin of the realm. Each time it was passed the price of an item like an individual candy bar and everything else increased. What began at 5 cents in the 1940’s steadily increased to what it is today. The result has always been since it began devaluing the purchasing power of the dollar.
That’s not a living wage in DC unless you’re living in your parents attic/basement.
Is she going to take the same pay?
I guess the tax payers are stuck with this bill?
Entry level for 52,000 per year works out to be $13k per quarter. Here’s a comparison from Rep Grave’s office budget...
PERSONNEL COMPENSATION
BARBER-LILES, LINDA B. . 07/01/18 09/30/18 CONSTITUENT SERVICES REP 14,499.99
BARTLEY,TRACEY A 07/01/18 09/30/18 CONSTITUENT SERVICES DIRECTOR 16,500.00
BLACK,RACHEL C . 07/01/18 09/30/18 STAFF ASSISTANT 8,124.99
DIFFLEY,RYAN S . 07/01/18 09/30/18 LEGISLATIVE ASSISTANT 11,750.01
DONNELLY,JOHN P . 07/01/18 09/30/18 CHIEF OF STAFF . 3,750.00
FILLINGIM,KRISTIN L 07/01/18 09/30/18 SCHEDULER . 11,250.00
HAWKINS,GARRETT D . 07/01/18 09/30/18 COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR . 18,750.00
HODGE, MATTHEW S. . 07/01/18 09/30/18 MILITARY LEGISLATIVE ASSISTANT 20,750.01
HOGG,ROBERT S 07/01/18 09/30/18 SPECIAL ASSISTANT . 8,499.99
JONES,VALERIE D . 07/01/18 09/30/18 CONSTITUENT SERVICES REPRESENT 10,500.00
LENTS,DEBORAH A . 07/01/18 09/30/18 STAFF ASSISTANT 8,250.00
LOUDERMILK,TRAVIS B 07/01/18 09/30/18 FIELD REP & SECURITY COORDINAT . 15,750.00
MAHLER,SAMUEL C 07/01/18 09/30/18 SENIOR LEGISLATIVE ASSISTANT . 18,375.00
MENORCA,DIANE L . 07/01/18 09/30/18 FINANCIAL ADMINISTRATOR . 3,750.00
MOONEY,JACQUELYN B 07/01/18 09/30/18 CONSTITUENT SERVICES REPRESENT 10,500.00
MURPHY,JASON R 07/01/18 09/30/18 LEGISLATIVE DIRECTOR . 23,750.01
VAKHARIA,SHIVANI B 07/01/18 09/30/18 LEGISLATIVE/PRESS ASSISTANT . 10,250.01
WHITMIRE,JOHN J . 07/01/18 09/30/18 DEPUTY CHIEF OF STAFF . 21,249.99
The forum’s obsession with Ocasio-Cortez has become tiresome. Keep giving her a stage at your own (and our) risk.
I would think a living wage in DC is at least $100K.
Does she give free health care and free tuition?
No matter what AOC pays her staff it’s no skin off her nose.
AOC say’s “If money doesn’t grow on trees how come banks have branches?’’.
she has a fixed office budget, so she’s going to have to pay the same to top level staff as relatively unimportant low-level staff. this is going to result in two negative outcomes for AOC:
1. low-level staff won’t be any more productive as a result of being paid more.
2. she’ll have to settle for poor quality high-level staff since she’ll be offering non-competitive wages.
this latter issue is going to hurt her far worse than the first one ...
But when DonkeyFace pays her drones $52,000.00 per year it's a living wage.
These are not large salaries.
All other Democrat congresspersons should be asked: “When will you do the same?”
the epitome of socialism...redistribute other people’s money, but never your own. will she be reducing her pay to $52K?