Ocasio-Cortez redistributes her staff’s incomes

American Thinker ^ | 02/24/2019 | Thomas Lifson

[SeekAndFind]

A young woman with no real-world experience is about to learn the hard way that her ideology is impractical.  I have to give Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez credit for sincerity in her announcement on Twitter that she plans to compress the pay scale of her staff, reallocating the budget she receives for staff, and cutting the pay at the top, while increasing the pay at the bottom. If she stays in office long enough, the consequences of implementing leftist cant will become clear to her (and us) over time, so it may be a teaching experience” (as former President Obama called it).  Stephanie Aiken of Roll Call sympathetically reports:

Claudia Pagon Marchena, like so many Hill staffers, moonlighted at a Washington, D.C., eatery to pay her rent until she took a job with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. She celebrated her last day at her coffee shop job that same week.

That’s because Ocasio-Cortez, who has called on fellow lawmakers to pay their staffs a “living wage,” is making an example out of her own office. The New York Democrat has introduced an unusual policy that no one on her staff will make less than $52,000 a year — an almost unheard of amount for many of the 20-somethings whose long hours make House and Senate offices run.

For Pagon Marchena, 22, the pay bump meant an end to a grueling, seven-day-a-week work schedule that was wearing down her resolve to stay in Washington, where rents average more than $2,000 a month.

Congress, which loves spending taxpayers’ money, already is “studying” giving better pay to lower level staff (meaning increasing their own allowances for staff),

[Rebelbase]

I want to see Chelsea Clinton run against her next year. Talk about and epic cat fight...

[EQAndyBuzz]

“Congress, which loves spending taxpayers’ money, already is “studying” giving better pay to lower level staff (meaning increasing their own allowances for staff)”

Each congressional member is allocated money for their staff. However they choose to split it up is up to them.

[humbleexpert]

Under the rules of Socialism, everyone in AOC’s office, including AOC herself, would get equal pay.

OR, everyone would get paid based on the Socialist formula of from each according to his abilities to each according to his needs.

The first alternative would be simple to implement. The second would result in every employee claiming to have greater financial needs than his/her co-workers, and be virtually unworkable.

In practice, the first alternative has never worked because some Socialists have always considered themselves to be more equal than others and have taken higher pay, leaving their comrades in poverty at best or starving to death a la Venezuela.

By refusing to take an equal salary to her staff, AOC would be joining the illustrious group of Socialist leaders she so admires, from Josef Stalin to Fidel Castro to Nicolas Maduro.

[Poison Pill]

Is she cutting her own pay as part of this scheme

[minnesota_bound]

FTA: cutting the pay at the top

Does this mean her salary too?

[GnuThere]

Remember the guy who decided to pay everybody in his company a baseline (high) wage, like minimum of $70K or something?
I recall the more skilled workers, IT and such, were not amused.