AOC says taxpayers should have to pay her $17K student loan—even though she makes $174K a year

FEE’s Brad Polumbo writes, “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.)

“I’m 32 years old now,” the congresswoman said. “I have over $17,000 in student loan debt... this is unacceptable.” Um, @AOC, you earn $175/year courtesy of taxpayers. ?Pay ? your ? own ? darn ? bills ?https://t.co/JRhTmt1Isa

— Brad Polumbo ??⚽️ ?️‍? (@brad_polumbo) December 8, 2021

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.’

I’m sorry, what part of that is unacceptable, exactly?”

Read the entire column.