AOC’s student loan debt: Letters – Latest News
The Issue: Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez not paying her student loans, regardless of her $173,000 wage.
Betsy McCaughey factors out the outrageous fiscal prudence of seemingly ’28 Dem candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (“A Deadbeat Prez? AOC’s Loan Mess,” Aug. 19).
The cardinal rule for a candidate is to steer by instance. In her case, it’s lead by defiance. This entitled particular person believes she doesn’t dwell by the identical guidelines as everybody else.
The accountable citizen would prioritize paying back the loans and encourage others to do the identical — not TikToking about her pricey fertility therapies.
Ronald Frank
West Orange, NJ
Why doesn’t our authorities mechanically garnish the wage of any federal staff who don’t pay their federal student loans?
Fred Wilkowski
Valley Stream
McCaughey was proper on the mark in her exposé of AOC. She gained’t pay her loans back as a result of she feels that “We the People” ought to pay the debt for her.
Sad to say, the issue goes past that. Loans have been designed to help college students pay school bills. The precise reverse has occurred and the thieves who run our schools noticed this system as a technique by which they might charge exorbitant costs to younger people who might by no means repay their debt.
Also, many of the programs these younger people have pursued are of little worth within the job market, thus compounding the issue.
Andrew MacDonald
Fanwood, NJ
While The Post reported that 2011 Boston University grad AOC nonetheless owes between $15,000 and $19,000 in student loans, unmentioned is the truth that our social media maven is definitely a double deadbeat.
In 2012, AOC based Brook Avenue Press. It proved a depressing failure; a decade later, the tax warrant for $1,600 issued in opposition to her defunct startup remained open and unpaid, together with further fines.
It appears AOC’s simply one other DSA “leader” who’s unwilling to pay her own means.
Jim Soviero
E. Setauket
At least AOC is constant along with her ideas by refusing to pay her federal student loans, since she advocates totally free school and defends Medicare for All.
Perhaps there needs to be more speak about careers with the very best employability and pay, similar to these in software program and software development, cybersecurity or robotics — quite than specializing in forgiving debt.
Daniel Gómez
Madrid
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The Issue: City Council members backing 12 excessive payments, together with deleting the gang database.
Delete the gang database, free-range eggs for the privileged digestive systems of municipal employees and paid time off in case your pet is sick. Among different ridiculous payments, these are the insurance policies proposed by the Progressive Caucus of your esteemed City Council (“Council wacky wishes,” Aug. 22) .
I’m sorry, New York City, however you probably did it to yourselves. You elected a spoiled baby, and he and his band of equally immature playmates are operating wild with proposals they dreamed up within the sandbox.
Get out and vote for some grown-ups subsequent time.
Michelle Graham
Island Park
Sick go away for pets: possibly. Free-range eggs: no. Comfortable benches for the homeless: no. Tree removing: already lined, Abolish NYPD gang database: completely not. $30 minimal wage: no. Delivery service weight limits: possibly. Gender-affirming gadgets for jail inmates: no!
The City Council ought to attempt to remedy and implement current legal guidelines earlier than losing time with frivolous and ridiculous nonsense.
Jean Cole
Juno Beach, Fla.
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