Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez linked rising thefts in New York City to the child tax credit, which expired at the end of 2021.
In an interview with the New Yorker, AOC said she has spoken to “hospitals, doctors and social workers” and learned that the violence is driven mainly by young men.
“And we allow the discourse to make it sound as though it’s, like, these shady figures in the bush jumping out from a corner. These are young men. These are boys. We’re also not discussing the mental health crisis that we are experiencing as a country as a result of the pandemic,” she said.
AOC went on to say that the child tax credit has expired “and now people are stealing baby formula.”
But AOC says nobody wants to talk about the idea that people are committing more crimes because of the child tax credit’s expiration.
“We don’t want to have that discussion. We want to say these people are criminals or we want to talk about “people who are violent,” instead of ‘environments of violence,’ and what we’re doing to either contribute to that or dismantle that.”
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11 Responses
Get her off our payroll!
Get over it. Poor people are “entitled” to steal if we curtail or eliminate all the “free stuff” they’ve gotten used to.
Her meshugaas is one reason why the Dems will lose bigtime if they don’t let the adults in the party regain control over the messaging.
I never knew baby formula comes in designer leather bags, huge, flat 60″ cartons, and nike boxes.
I think she’s right, but she didn’t go far enough. If you need groceries or household items and the government hasn’t sent you enough cash, just take it off the shelf at a local store. And we don’t feel bad for the store owner because he/she can just steal what they need from the next store!
Except that the child tax credits only stopped in January, and crime started rising long before.
@fakenews
They were being proactive, and stocked up early.
Pat let me guess..
I’ll take an N and 2 g’s
Saul B. Who’s Kool-Aid have you been drinking? AOC right? Since when has she ever been right? Need groceries, go to a food pantry. Designer bags mean you can afford the stuff.
Saul B. Who’s Kool-Aid have you been drinking? AOC right? Since when has she ever been right? Need groceries, go to a food pantry.
We have schools delivering “free” meals to everyone. They did not want to bother government with the delivery and just came to pick it up themselves.
AOC has the brains of someone on drugs. Or baby formula.