Candace Owens Schools AOC On Minimum Wage Comments: ‘Workers Compete With Workers’
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez responded to Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonugh’s ruling for minimum wage to not be included in the COVID-19 relief package. Political commentator Candace Owens hit back on AOC’s tweet saying, “We should give her the Nobel price in economics.”
Owens said this in response to a tweet Tuesday night from Ocasio-Cortez, “It is utterly embarrassing that ‘pay people enough to live’ is a stance that’s even up for debate. Override the parliamentarian and raise the wage,”
The tweet from AOC continued to claim, “McD’s workers in Denmark are paid $22/hr + 6 wks paid vacation. $15/hr is a deep comprimise-a big one, considered the phase in.”
It is utterly embarrassing that “pay people enough to live” is a stance that’s even up for debate.
Override the parliamentarian and raise the wage. McD’s workers in Denmark are paid $22/hr + 6 wks paid vacation. $15/hr is a deep compromise – a big one, considering the phase in.
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) March 3, 2021
MacDonugh said on February 25 that adding the minimum wage requirement does not meet the guidelines for reconciliation, which Democrats are doing to pass their relief plan. The reconciliation process ‘allows the party in control of Congress to pass most big-dollar legislation with a simple 51-vote majority in the Senate without having to worry about a filibuster,’ according to NPR.
AOC wrongly claimed that McDonald’s workers in Denmark earn $22 per hour as she tries to push for a $15 being a ‘deep compromise’ and DailyMail reported, “Denmark does not have a federally mandated minimum wage. Instead it has a strong trade union presence where individual industries and workers negotiate fair salaries on a sector-by-sector basis.”
Other conservatives corrected AOC for her remarks on Twitter, “Denmark, like most Scandinavian countries, does not have a minimum wage. It is utterly embarrassing you don’t seem to know that.”
National Review called out AOC for her ‘Terrible Minimum-Wage Argument’
NR wrote, “The most obvious problem with Ocasio-Cortez’s contention is that Denmark, like other Scandinavian nations, doesn’t have a statutory minimum wage. Industries and workers engage in sector-by-sector salary negotiations, which might well undermine intra-industry competition, but which is a much better idea than the flat national-wage floor being peddled by Democrats. So, this popular progressive talking point about Denmark’s miracle middle-class fast-food worker doesn’t make much sense to begin with.”
“Especially when one considers that the per-capita income in the United States is virtually the same as in Denmark — quite a feat given that we’re a pluralistic nation of around 330 million people that naturalizes another 900,000 people every year, many from poor nations, and that Denmark is a homogeneous country of fewer than 6 million citizens that, in recent years, has effectively shut down its borders to poor immigrants,” NR stated.
According to USA Today, Denmark has one of the highest tax rates in the world and also ‘lacks a federally mandates minimum wage.
Candace Owens appeared on Fox News with Sean Hannity to respond to AOC’s comments and offering a Nobel price like Cuomo who received a Nobel price while allowing people to die.”
Owens said, “With AOC you never let facts get in way of a good story. You know what I mean? That is her motto. Personally, I think we should give her the Nobel prize in economics. If we’ve got Andrew Cuomo winning an Emmy for his coronavirus briefings, despite the fact that he was allowing people to die, why not award AOC the Nobel prize in economics.”
https://youtu.be/qfyuTdiIORA
