This may be semi-satire, but the citation from the 27th Amendment is correct, and the scheme to stop the paychecks is illegal.
I’ve always thought it was a stupid scheme. These people aren’t in it for the paychecks, they make tons more just from the graft. Why should they care if their paychecks stop? I’d like to see the paychecks of all the staff of the Congress and the Senate zeroed out, and no back pay, either. That *would* get their attention!
And a scheme to stop the ownership of guns is legal?