Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) has made at least $174,000 annually for nearly eight years as a member of Congress but has yet to put a substantial dent in her student loan debt, according to House financial disclosures.

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    26 days ago

    I think its funny that you think someone making 175k is a multi millionaire. Did you look at the full financial disclosure. Clearly not…

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    26 days ago

    It must be nice being a multimillionare and expect the construction workers, waiters and waitresses and taxi drivers to pay off your student loans for you.

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      26 days ago

      No, if anything we’re expecting the wealthy people who owned 70% of the stocks in the country to pay for it. But your examples are very interesting, as if they’re even remotely realistic. This is a completely terrible post and you should be ashamed by the way.

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      26 days ago

      Multimillionaire? Are you really that bad at math?

      It’s not like she came from money. Do you know what she was before she became a politician? She was a bartender at a Mexican restaurant about a block away from Union Square. I happen to know this personally, because that’s where I met her in 2015: in between classes at university, I walked into that bar, and she got me fucked up on margaritas.

      Unless you’re suggesting that I left her millions of dollars in tips that day…

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      26 days ago

      “… at least $174,000 annually for nearly eight years…”

      $174,000 x 8 years = 1,392,000

      Millions in 1,392,000 = 1

      Now, I’m no expert in American taxes, I’m just a Canadian; but last I checked, 1 million is not multiple millions

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        26 days ago

        Take away about 25-27% for federal and state taxes, social security, idk if they pay for health care since gov, but then she also lives in NY, so I’m sure is not cheap.

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          She might also need a place in DC. The alternative is staying in a hotel for the duration of congressional sessions. Maybe flying home on weekends and back the next week. But since there are multimillionaires and rich fuck lobbyists in the area as well, it’s hella expensive.

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      26 days ago

      Man, reactionary media has fucked the brains of a whole lot of people.

      Hilarious that you thought this would fly on Lemmy though.

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      26 days ago

      This is such a sad headline. The implication is that because she has a high debt to income ratio and she’s busy with her career that she shouldn’t be able to have children. It’s not a crime or anything to be paying the minimums on your student loans either.

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    26 days ago

    So? Donald John Trump rapes children for fun, uses the office of the President to enrich himself, his family and all his buddies. Also uses the office of the President to keep himself and all his buddies out of prison, or any other legal trouble. Did I mention he fucks little kids, rapes them, him and his best pal Jeffery Epstein would pass around children to their rich friends for profit all while raping them too, laughing and joking about it. Donald John Trump is a huge fat pile of kid raping shit with tiny stupid dumb hands.

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    26 days ago

    You know the Post is a fucking garbage tabloid right?

    Also, who fucking cares? Compare AOC to this shitbag. Tax Elon 1% and we’d all have free college.

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      26 days ago

      Is 21 not the legal age in most states anymore? I thought there were some states that wanted to move the smoking age up to 21.