{"id":1782527,"date":"2022-12-21T09:32:55","date_gmt":"2022-12-21T14:32:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1782527"},"modified":"2022-12-21T09:32:59","modified_gmt":"2022-12-21T14:32:59","slug":"aoc-slammed-over-tweet-on-the-minimum-wage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/aoc-slammed-over-tweet-on-the-minimum-wage\/","title":{"rendered":"AOC Slammed Over Tweet On The Minimum Wage"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Faoc-slammed-over-tweet-on-the-minimum-wage%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1782527&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) was mocked online Tuesday afternoon after she attacked the Republican Party for voting against raising the minimum wage, which some in her party have also opposed.<\/p>\n<p>Ocasio-Cortez\u2019s tweet was in reference to recent statistics that came out late this year that showed that the majority of Americans are living paycheck-to-paycheck under the Biden administration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c60% of workers report living paycheck-to-paycheck,\u201d the Republican Party said in a tweet.<\/p>\n<p>AOC responded by claiming, \u201cAnd yet y\u2019all still voted against raising the minimum wage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, a fact-check from Twitter\u2019s Community Notes was attached to Ocasio-Cortez\u2019s tweet that noted that the national minimum wage has not changed in over a decade and that the last time Congress voted on the matter was last year, in a Democrat-controlled Congress, and the measure failed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe minimum wage has not changed since 2009,\u201d the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dol.gov\/agencies\/whd\/minimum-wage\/history\/chart\">fact-check<\/a>, which was written by Twitter users, read at the time of publication, citing the Department of Labor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn 2021, Congress voted on a bill to raise the minimum wage,\u201d the fact-check continued.<\/p>\n<p>The fact-check noted that the measure passed in the House 231-199, with 192 Republicans opposing and eight Democrats opposing, along with one Independent.<\/p>\n<p>The fact-check then noted that the Democrat-controlled U.S. Senate blocked the measure 58-42 with some Democrats joining Republicans to kill the bill.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">And yet y\u2019all still voted against raising the minimum wage <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tFkTHf2OAO\">https:\/\/t.co\/tFkTHf2OAO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AOC\/status\/1604955343402029072?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 19, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The 33-year-old socialist lawmaker was mocked online by critics, including some who suggested she needed to get a refund for her economics degree from Boston University.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI REFUSE to believe that this woman has a degree in economics,\u201d British political commentator Esther K tweeted.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I REFUSE to believe that this woman has a degree in economics. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ipY98kJyX3\">https:\/\/t.co\/ipY98kJyX3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Esther K (@estherk_k) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/estherk_k\/status\/1604980699354009600?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 19, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>PR guru Ellen Carmichael tweeted, \u201cYou\u2019re an economic illiterate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen\/where have government price\/wage controls ever worked, @AOC ?\u201d actor Adam Baldwin tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s really difficult for me to believe any politician truly believes raising the minimum wage (thus accelerating inflation, raising the barrier to entry &#038; forcing employers out of business) is really helping people,\u201d political commentator Pardes Seleh tweeted. \u201cTherefore I will just assume this is how politicians buy votes!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Libertarian Party responded, \u201cWe support a maximum wage of $0 for IRS and Federal Reserve employees. And $8 for you, just so you can pay @elonmusk for your blue checkmark.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRaising the minimum wage will cause more inflation,\u201d a finance account tweeted. \u201cThe only way to get ahead is *creating* more value (Ie. WiFi money and exiting this scam system). When you raise income for the same positions it just raises prices of all basic goods since there was no increase in productivity.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) was mocked online Tuesday afternoon after she attacked the Republican Party for voting against raising the minimum wage, which some in her party have also opposed. Ocasio-Cortez\u2019s tweet was in reference to recent statistics that came out late this year that showed that the majority of Americans are living paycheck-to-paycheck under &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":134,"featured_media":1782530,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[8334,6202,4561,5151,5293,4562,6195],"class_list":["post-1782527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-aoc","tag-daily","tag-minimum","tag-slammed","tag-tweet","tag-wage","tag-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1782527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1782530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1782527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1782527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1782527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}