Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York has equated her fight for a $15 minimum wage to a compromise and said she thinks all workers should be paid at least $24 per hour for their time.
During an interview with MSNBC’s Mehdi Hasan on Monday, the congresswoman attacked moderate Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia, who is opposed to a wage hike, while discussing the Democrats’ use of the coronavirus pandemic to jack up wages.
She further claimed that a $15 an hour minimum wage is actually a compromise, and that anyone who disagrees that her on the issue is living in a “dystopian capitalist nightmare.”
“People are sleeping in their cars, they can’t afford baby formula, there are basic goods that people can’t afford to live on” she said, noting that the current federal minimum wage is $7.25 an hour.
“It is deeply, deeply shameful that we are even having this conversation. Because when you take the minimum wage from several decades ago and you actually account for inflation and productivity gains to today, it should be $24 an hour,” AOC added. “So we need other Democrats to understand how deep of a compromise $15 an hour is.”
If $24 is good why not make it $100/hour? $500? Why not $1,000,000 per hour?
since the current is 7.25/hr can the rest of us get an equivalent increase too?
i would not mind doubling or tripling my income
Well, I don’t think anyone in Congress should be paid any more that $10/hr and there should be term limits.
She’s an economic nuclear bomb.
If the value of the dollar wasn’t already nearly worthless due to these multi billion and trillion spending bills and debt ceiling growth $7.25 an hour would still be a livable wage. Gas wouldn’t skyrocket to $4 a gal. every time a Dem majority comes to power. We need to tighten our belts not print more money. Freedom isn’t free and neither are we anymore.
Maybe she could suggest they get a job like she had in a bar. You may be working horizontally though.
The ONLY thing she ever said RIGHT !!!! But won’t ever happen in our lifetime !!!!
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Two points:
First, since its inception, it’s a minimum rate. A starting point. Employers have always been free to pay more, and workers have always been free to seek and accept higher paying jobs. Not every hamlet has hundreds of jobs to choose from so there are some practical constraints on job mobility.
Second, every increase costs jobs as some workers are no longer viable at the new, higher rate. You pour your own drinks and order from a touch screen in a fast-food due to past increases, as an example.
Let’s make the new rate 100% of whatever Congress choses to pay itself. Problem solved!
Spoken like a true clueless marxist PIG!!
CANCEL this female dog!!
Of course she thinks it is a great idea because she, like most of the idiots in Congress, has never signed a paycheck on the front. She has no clue what it takes to run a business.
They all make over $200k for a part time job that they generally suck at. VOTE THEM OUT.
Prior Bartender….anyone look over her taxes to make sure she properly claimed her tips?