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

[Flash]

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?

You can talk about anything, but if a person votes for a bill to forgive student debts that is a direct conflict because it benefits them financially. I never think such a bill will pass.

[domer76]

You can talk about anything, but if a person votes for a bill to forgive student debts that is a direct conflict because it benefits them financially. I never think such a bill will pass.

Recuse (for the third time)

[Centerleftfl]

Who DOESN'T?

[Flash]

She is a freshman Representive with the power of a freshman Representative who right wing demogogues and Trumpkins are obsessed with, beginning to believe she is their closet wet dream

Both sides choose people to demonize. For the right it is Cortez, Pelosi, etc. The left used to blame everything on the Koch brothers but Trump has replaced them.

[Earl]

You can talk about anything, but if a person votes for a bill to forgive student debts that is a direct conflict because it benefits them financially. I never think such a bill will pass.

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.

[Flash]

Recuse (for the third time)

If Cortez recuses they will lose 25% of the votes for the bill.

[cawacko]

You can talk about anything, but if a person votes for a bill to forgive student debts that is a direct conflict because it benefits them financially. I never think such a bill will pass.

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.

[LV426]

You can talk about anything, but if a person votes for a bill to forgive student debts that is a direct conflict because it benefits them financially. I never think such a bill will pass.

So then I guess the Russia Tax Cut was illegal, then, because the Conservatives who voted for them all benefited from the cut to the top and corporate rates, including Trump who signed it into law.

Flash is such a lazy fucking sophist.

[domer76]

If Cortez recuses they will lose 25% of the votes for the bill.

So?

[LV426]

Both sides choose people to demonize. For the right it is Cortez, Pelosi, etc. The left used to blame everything on the Koch brothers but Trump has replaced them.

Flash needs to find BoTh SiDeS balance because he cannot conceive of a political landscape that isn't balanced. His brain cannot process that. It's too much for someone that fucking lazy. He BoTh SiDeS because it's easier than having to do actual work to recognize and acknowledge differences and distinctions.

[Earl]

Tax cuts affect all taxpayers.

The anti-Semite is proposing a law to forgive her own personal loan that is now~20K.

Black is not white, black is black.

She says that she has 6 K in savings.

Pay off your own loan, anti-Semite.

[anonymoose]

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.

Really? Not everyone has student loan debt and those that do incurred it by their own choice. The one half of the population that choose to contribute to society by working are forced to pay taxes by gunpoint.

[LV426]

If Cortez recuses they will lose 25% of the votes for the bill.

Why must AOC recuse herself, but you say nothing about the Russia Tax Cut that benefitted the wealthy GOPers who voted for it, and the Conservative President who signed it into law?

Oh right, because that would indict an already shitty tax cut and force you to defend it again when you don't want to.

[Flash]

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.

I think the difference under the ethics laws is that tax cuts apply equally to everyone as opposed to targeted benefits. Also, one is forgiving a debt obligation and the other is not forgiving a debt since the money will not be owed under the new tax law. In reality, I think the distinction is more complicated.

[LV426]

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.

BECAUSE THE WHOLE THING IS BULLSHIT.

BoTh SiDeRiSm at its worst.