Rep. Alexandria Occasion Cortez has 20zK in student loan debt

[FUCK THE POLICE]

“Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez made a student loan payment on Tuesday — and also revealed how much she still owes — while attending a congressional hearing on college debt.

“I literally made a student loan payment while I was sitting here at this chair, and I looked at my balance, and it was $20,237.16,” said the New York lawmaker. “I just made a payment that took me down to $19,000 so I feel really accomplished right now.”

Ocasio-Cortez, a Boston University graduate, was attending a House Financial Services Committee hearing on the estimated $1.5 trillion in student debt in the country. Consumer advocates, experts and public figures testified on different ways to bring the number down.

Ocasio-Cortez is one of nearly 70 members of Congress who are still paying off student loans for themselves or a dependent — with an average debt burden of $37,000. Eight lawmakers are said to have more than $100,000 in debt.

“I’m hearing people on this committee say it’s not our job,” Ocasio-Cortez said, referring to testimony from Republicans during the hearing. “This is our job.”

This is a clear conflict of interest by her and the other Democrats who have unpaid student loans.

They want taxpayers to pay their loans. Conflict of interest.

It is a conflict of interest for Republicans to cut their donors taxes, that doesn't stop them.

 

[FUCK THE POLICE]

One reason why I never went in to politics. Doesn't pay enough. Graduated from professional school in '85 with $40,000 in st. loan debt at 26 y.o. and paid it off in two yrs.

Fuck you got clueless piece of shit

Thanks for growing up before you ruined the country, we are left with the scraps

 

[FUCK THE POLICE]

“If you apply for financial aid, your school will likely include student loans as part of your financial aid package. It’s important to understand what types of loans you are offered. Generally, there are two types of student loans—federal and private.

Federal student loans and federal parent loans: These loans are funded by the federal government.”
student aid.ed.gov

When loans are forgiven, the taxpayers eat those defaulted loans.

Do your own research next time.

Oh you cannot leach as much off of us as you ordinarily would have, pity

Fuck taxpayers

 

[FUCK THE POLICE]

Indeed.

“As of June 2018, Forbes reported that total US student debt was $1.52 trillion and that 44.2 million people owed debt. The average student debt is $38,390. The median student debt is between $10,000 and $25,000, while 2% of borrowers owe $100,000 or more.”
forbes.com

If one dollar is forgiven, as advocated by the anti-Semite and she owes ~ 20K, by a law which she votes for in the House, it is Smithsonian conflict of interest.

Lmao retard

All tax cuts are conflicts of interest

 

[Flash]

Top 20% income starts at $90K.

I wouldn't consider $90K wealthy.

What does the top 1% pay, and what amount of income gains have they seen?




So then when you said before the tax cut was equal, you were bullshitting.

You do that a lot, by the way. You make deliberately false arguments and frame things without context either because you're a duplicitous piece of shit, or you're just incredibly lazy.




Obama let the Bush Tax Cuts for the wealthy expire and they returned to the rates pre-Bush Tax Cuts.

So once again, we have an instance of you falsely framing something because you either don't understand it, or you do and are trying to make a false argument.

And what do you mean by "same income data"? That makes no sense.




Maybe not to you, but to me it is.




Lower taxes always result in higher debt and more borrowing. That's what the data from the last 40 years shows. Data you still ignore because it's not convenient for your argument. And yes, lower taxes does result in others paying for what someone else owes. As we saw in Kansas, when taxes were cut, that increased borrowing and out of pocket spending for things like health care and education. So the rich paid less in taxes so that everyone else could pay more for essential services.




The tax cuts caused the debt to grow. You deliberately reduced revenue and that created deficits that added to the debt.

Tax cuts = debt.

The tax cuts were the same for all those with the same income is the point. Everybody at that income pays the same tax rate.

It is not a conflict of interest to vote for tax cuts that apply to all Americans. It is a conflict to vote yourself a benefit.

One gets nothing from the government other than getting to keep more of his own income. The other is getting thousands in benefits for loans they now want somebody else to repay.

 

[FUCK THE POLICE]

I get the conflict of interest here but how does that work with something like tax cuts? Every lawmaker gets a salary and stands to benefit from a lower tax rate. Yet obviously they don't all recuse themselves.

Literally there is no such responsibility under the law, representatives can and do vote for things they financially benefit from all they time. It would be a massive imposition in the sovereignty of congress to do otherwise because everything they do affects everything in the economy. Any economic policy is going to trickle back to someone.

 

[Moosakofsky]

Fuck you got clueless piece of shit

Thanks for growing up before you ruined the country, we are left with the scraps

 

[FUCK THE POLICE]

The tax cuts were the same for all those with the same income is the point. Everybody at that income pays the same tax rate.

It is not a conflict of interest to vote for tax cuts that apply to all Americans. It is a conflict to vote yourself a benefit.

One gets nothing from the government other than getting to keep more of his own income. The other is getting thousands in benefits for loans they now want somebody else to repay.

And every American would benefit from student loan forgiveness. No conflict of interest. Every American gets their student loans paid off, it's not the governments fault if you're a spoiled boomer who grew up when money fell from the trees and so you already paid it off before destroying the economy for the next generation.

 

[FUCK THE POLICE]

All income is societies income. Tax cuts take away from others education, healthcare, housing, welfare, and well being in order to pay for wealthy peoples trinkets. Tax cuts are theft.

 

[Flash]

Recuse!

Yes, she definitely should not vote on the issue; although, I think few posters seriously think such a bill will pass.

 

[Flash]

And every American would benefit from student loan forgiveness. No conflict of interest. Every American gets their student loans paid off, it's not the governments fault if you're a spoiled boomer who grew up when money fell from the trees and so you already paid it off before destroying the economy for the next generation.

It benefits people with loans much more than others. It does not benefits every American since many must pay the student debt for entitled college students who think they are too good to repay their debts.

 

[Flash]

All income is societies income. Tax cuts take away from others education, healthcare, housing, welfare, and well being in order to pay for wealthy peoples trinkets. Tax cuts are theft.

No programs were cut because of the tax cuts. Spending increased as usual. Only a small percentage of educational funding comes from federal sources, so a cut in federal income tax has little impact.

 

[Buck Tucker]

“Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez made a student loan payment on Tuesday — and also revealed how much she still owes — while attending a congressional hearing on college debt.

“I literally made a student loan payment while I was sitting here at this chair, and I looked at my balance, and it was $20,237.16,” said the New York lawmaker. “I just made a payment that took me down to $19,000 so I feel really accomplished right now.”

Ocasio-Cortez, a Boston University graduate, was attending a House Financial Services Committee hearing on the estimated $1.5 trillion in student debt in the country. Consumer advocates, experts and public figures testified on different ways to bring the number down.

Ocasio-Cortez is one of nearly 70 members of Congress who are still paying off student loans for themselves or a dependent — with an average debt burden of $37,000. Eight lawmakers are said to have more than $100,000 in debt.

“I’m hearing people on this committee say it’s not our job,” Ocasio-Cortez said, referring to testimony from Republicans during the hearing. “This is our job.”

This is a clear conflict of interest by her and the other Democrats who have unpaid student loans.

They want taxpayers to pay their loans. Conflict of interest.

Considering the bitch never had a job other than bartender she was probably in hardship forbearance the whole time.

 

[Buck Tucker]

All income is societies income. Tax cuts take away from others education, healthcare, housing, welfare, and well being in order to pay for wealthy peoples trinkets. Tax cuts are theft.

Bullshit! I make the money all taxation is theft. The Govt has no right to my money or any reason to know how much I make. The 16th Amendment should be repealed immediately and all the IRS employees fired.

 

[FUCK THE POLICE]

Bullshit! I make the money all taxation is theft. The Govt has no right to my money or any reason to know how much I make. The 16th Amendment should be repealed immediately and all the IRS employees fired.

You make nothing. You are economic waste. You should be liquidated and executed and all your assets redistributed to non-reactionaries.

 

[FUCK THE POLICE]

It benefits people with loans much more than others. It does not benefits every American since many must pay the student debt for entitled college students who think they are too good to repay their debts.

And tax cuts don't benefit every American either, only taxpayers. It benefits those wealthy enough to pay taxes much more than others.

It's not my fault if you don't have college loans, tough shit. Go cry somewhere else with your sports car and your stolen wealth.

 

[Flash]

And tax cuts don't benefit every American either, only taxpayers. It benefits those wealthy enough to pay taxes much more than others.

It's not my fault if you don't have college loans, tough shit. Go cry somewhere else with your sports car and your stolen wealth.

Tax cuts just reduce how much people have to pay government. Forgiving college loans takes money from others to give those who want to use government to enrich themselves.

 

[Damocles]

How is it a conflict of interest? If you have a mortgage on your home, does that mean you can't talk about bad lenders etc?

It would mean that saying that Yurt should have to pay my mortgage instead of me in a law would be a conflict of interest. Talking about bad lenders is a different thing.

 

[Damocles]

Yes it is. Why does she still owe it 8 yrs. after graduating?

Because she was, until recently, a bartender?

 

[LV426]

You have tried to divert the topic from whether it is a conflict of interest to vote to forgive a loan you have promised to repay to the merits of the tax cuts.

You're the one who stupidly said the tax cut was equitable for everyone.

You were fucking wrong.

Now you're acting like a crybaby because of it.

What a fucking waste.