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
C’mon she’s only asking for crumbs.
It’s more like tip for really good service.
Cenk Uygar.
So, Soros basically.
Congress-people should be paid less, not more.
“Cenk Uygar.”
I had heard that he and his Young Turks posse were behind this. I guess he never recovered from election night 2016.
“Because, like, the Devil wears PRADA! That stuff ain’t cheap.”
Mine hasn’t stopped laughing yet...............
Yup. I wouldn’t count ‘’Miss Zanti Misfit’’ out just yet.
No he didn’t. He’s a foreign born Leftist thug.
And a note to our newest new money member of politics.....It’s quite rude to discuss one’s money or wealth publicly. It’s downright suicidal if you expect to become part of those of which you seek to ensure your future.
I do have a special connection with Cenk, though. When I’m feeling blue, I just watch that panel of clowns on election night and laugh my butt off. “Brace for impact!” hahahaha!!
wow, Outer Limits. I like your style.
This genuinely sounds like John Semmens satire:
“[E]verybody 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.”
That episode terrified me when I was a kid. Looking back it stared an unknown young Bruce Dern.
Ping.
The modern American political class. Self-serving, rapacious, greedy and corrupt to the core.
I'm willing to let it go up a bit with longevity; it is, after all, a minimum wage. But max out at $20 per hour.
For the mathematically challenged, such as this dingbat with her economics degree, that's $100 per month.
AOC,you are not worth spit nor are the rest of this absolutely worthless Congress.
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