Where's her wealth distribution talk now?
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
$4500 is most assuredly a raise. This woman is completely out of her mind and completely out of touch.
The only giant sucking sound that persists seems to be Congress bellying on up to the bar.
I doubt that such a statement would be true in terms of constant Dollars.
“Her abilities qualify her for a horizontal position.................”
Maybe at the minimum wage ...
AOC is one of the many poster children for the incredibly out of touch, irrational democrats.
What type of raise I get or don't get effects me not a bit.
Yeah, hardly anyone in Congress ever runs for re-election, because the pay and benefits are so terrible.
You know, that is SUCH a fantastic idea... let's make it a maximum wage too.
You have to give her credit for a creative argument. Pay Congress more and they won’t have to sell out to corporations.
If I asked my boss for a $4500 raise, he’d have me committed.............
That’s like 375 like dollars like per like month
That is impressive: I’m not a public servant, I’m a whore that goes to the highest bidder!
“She has like not even a brain.”
Literally, dude!
If I got a $4500 raise I would immediately move it to salary deferral plans and STFU.
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
If I got a $4500 raise I would have a heart attack!................
No money for congress critters or senate critters until the border is sealed and all illegal aliens deported.
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