Vanita Gupa backs $15 "Livable Wage" but not for her family business: she pays $1.30 an hour

It's the old demand to "do what I say, not what I do." That's the Vanita Gupta way of doing things or demanding things be done.

President Biden's nominee for a top DOJ slot has long advocated for a $15 per hour federal minimum wage. For some reason, we should not be surprised to learn that she owns about a million dollars in stock in a company chaired by her father, Raj Gupta, that it pays its Mexican workers as little as $1.30 an hour for their labor.

Gupta's net worth is between $42 and $187 million, making her Sleepy Joe's richest nominee. She owns no less than $500,000 in Aptiv PLC, an international auto parts maker. According to active jobs listings reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon, the company pays a portion of its workers a disgraceful $1.30 an hour.

One job posted on Indeed.com, for example, offers a line operator role at one of their plants in Zacatecas that pays the U.S. dollar equivalent of $260 A MONTH! for a 50-hour per week job. 

If the plant was located in Manhattan, NY, that would just about cover the carfare getting to work. Hardly a livable wage. But on social media and in her nonprofit work, Gupta has incessantly expressed support for the $15 minimum wage and a "livable wage."

Now that Gupta's confirmation process is underway, she is facing greater scrutiny and things are bubbling up to the surface like unexpected bubbles in the bathwater.

Hopefully Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WVA) will reconsider his support for this hypocrite, but don't count on it.

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