AOC, who makes $175K a year, says taxpayers should have to pay off her $17K in student loan debt

Washington Examiner ^ | 7 Dec 2021 | Brad Palumbo

[Rummyfan]

As a member of Congress, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez makes a whopping $174,000 annually, meaning that she individually earns more than twice the average U.S. household’s income. Yet the progressive Democrat nonetheless thinks that working-class taxpayers should have to pay off her student loan debt.

That’s one of the main takeaways from Ocasio-Cortez’s latest speech on the House floor. In the congresswoman’s remarks, she issued yet another factually challenged and morally distorted plea for “student debt cancellation,” a progressive euphemism for having taxpayers pay off approximately $1.6 trillion in student loan debt. (The loans aren’t “canceled” magically but paid off by taxpayers. Congress can’t just make debts go away.)

This is nothing new, as student debt “cancellation” has been one of Ocasio-Cortez’s pet issues since the beginning of her political career. Yet an interesting twist in this speech is that Ocasio-Cortez uses herself as an example — and directly calls for taxpayers to pay off her financial obligations.

“I’m 32 years old now,” the congresswoman said. “I have over $17,000 in student loan debt, and I didn’t go to graduate school because I knew that getting another degree would drown me in debt that I would never be able to surpass. This is unacceptable.”

[Rummyfan]

Phu cough AOC.

[rarestia]

I had over $30K in student loans paid off before I was 30 and didn’t make more than $75K annually until after I was 30. This tells me she has zero budget management skills, which is really not a surprise for a Democrat.

[caww]

If AOC is what a college education produces then colleges should be shut down!

[Track9]

I hope the government gives her another booster.

[blackdog]

If you chose to be a journeyman electrician Ms.Cortez, you could retire at age 40 and would have been paid to attend school.

Stupid choices have consequences.

[Beowulf9]

It just seems our political offices lately are full of crooks, liars and thieves. It’s so depressing.

[PGR88]

Decades ago, I had $18K of student loans, and I paid them off in a year. I was working overseas, and thus had US income tax exclusion.

What an incredible boost to my income it was not to pay the NY State and Federal government extortion.

That realization is what made me a conservative/libertarian.

[Liz]

Cong Rashita Tlaib also has the gimmes....wants us to pay off her $70,000 law school debt.

Call Congress:

US representatives 202-225-3121

US senators 202-224-3121.

Ask the operator to connect you to the individual office.

[windsorknot]

MABA. Make AOC Bartender Again.

[Brown Deer]

...“student loan debt is for the privileged.”

She called this “narrative” a “ridiculous assertion” and asked, “Do we really think a billionaire’s child is taking out student loans?”

“Come on!” she exclaimed. “If you are taking on student loan debt, it’s because you are likely a middle or working-class person. Let’s get real, let’s cancel it.”

So, according to AOC, multi-millionaires are now part of the middle class?

[LibsRJerks]

Many of these students take out college loans and then use the money to buy cars, clothes, food, etc. I’ve heard this directly from several of them.

I’ll be damned if I’m going to support “college welfare.”

[G Larry]

The loan was for YOUR education, so you'd have enough foundation to become a bartender and a con artist.

Taxpayers are already paying dearly for that "education".

[faithhopecharity]

F-AOC!
I made about 10,000 a year(and $7000 after taxes) and I paid off 11 student loans without asking or demanding that the American workers pay one single cent of it for me

and millions of other Americans have done likewise

[USAF1985]

“I have over $17,000 in student loan debt, and I didn’t go to graduate school because I knew that getting another degree would drown me in debt that I would never be able to surpass. This is unacceptable.”

Or do what I did...Join the military, get tuition assistance while you’re in, and use the GI Bill if you get out. Two Associates, one Bachelor’s and two Master’s later = $0 in debt and an outstanding technical job. I know what someone’s going to say...”AOC in the military? Lord help us!”

[JoJo354]

I’m with you with this! I paid off my $20,000 student loan working as a nurses aide and then as an accounts payable clerk with $ 8.00 an hour job. And I was single! Living alone. The AOC’s of this country are selfish, spoiled brats.

[Rummyfan]

Cong Rashita Tlaib also has the gimmes....wants us to pay off her $70,000 law school debt.

That is truly disgusting. Pay her law school debt while she works to destroy us in Congress. She can FO too. Back to Palestine.

[M Kehoe]

Grifters all.

5.56mm

[A Navy Vet]

Every day these commies make me hate them more.

[faithhopecharity]

good 4 U! SOON!

and yes,
the AOC’s of this country are indeed
selfish, spoiled brats.. they are also thieves, when we come right down to it, trying to steal money from working people like this

please, please Lord may we be relieved of these scourges SOON!

[FMBass]

Ocasio-Cortez graduated cum laude from Boston University in 2011 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics.

A degree in economics!!!