Deadbeat AOCs student-loan mooching should be a red flag to her 2028 supporters

Betting markets show Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as the frontrunner to snag the Democrats’ 2028 presidential nomination.But despite earning $173,000 a year as a member of Congress, AOC refuses to pay back her student loans — a red flag that she has no respect for taxpayers.Her supporters claim her college loans make her relatable.“This is what happens when we elect normal people to Congress,” leftist activist David Hogg posted approvingly.“I need a president that’s still drowning in student loan debt with me,” another fan wrote.  Relatable to the elite, maybe, but not to everybody. Households in the top fifth for earnings are three times more likely to have college debt than households in the bottom fifth of the economy. That means when doctors, lawyers and members of Congress don’t pay their college loans, working stiffs who never got to go to college — bus drivers, waiters and sanitation workers — end up on the hook.Totally unfair.If we elect a student-loan deadbeat to our nation’s highest office — the nation’s first freeloader-in-chief — hold onto your wallet, and prepare for financial calamity.Political analyst Doug Schoen last week warned that AOC “carries massive ideological baggage,” but in truth she’s hardly a Marxist scholar.She’s a poster child for the economic illiteracy of Gen Z and Millennial Democratic Socialists.The congresswoman, who graduated in 2011, currently owes between $15,000 and $19,000 in student loans — after owing $19,000 in 2019.Seven years and she’s barely made a dent in her obligation.She’s single, with no dependents.

 But she’s announced with great fanfare that she’s planning to freeze her eggs — an expensive proposition. And she spends plenty on her personal presentation — paying $25 a pop for her signature Stila bright-red lipstick, about twice the cost of a drugstore brand, and winning praise for her cutting-edge fashion and “power tailoring.”Yet she can’t mana...