>>Salaries for members of Congress should be $350,000<<
Actually, it should be $25,000 a year.
"Actually, it should be $25,000 a year."
Performanced based income is not part of the agenda.
Surely you're not suggesting that someone could support their family on this! Only wealthy people could be politicians.
<< Salaries for members of Congress should be $350,000
Actually, it should be $25,000 a year. >>
It should either be a dollar a year plus the reimbursement of the actual, receipted, expenses incurred on getting to and from and staying in DC according to feral-employee rules or, to take Thomas Sowell's advice, a Million Bucks a year and all the way First Class and Five Star.
The first suggestion would attract Constitutionally-oriented representatives and the latter likely a class of person with some actual life and business talent and experience.
Sure be a change from todays failed lawyers and other dismal hacks.
As for Carvile's "Democrats" disease? Yep, they're sick all right. But its their inability to create an idea and/or to experience an original thought that has, thank God, doomed them.
Now, if only we can get a bloody Republican to create an idea and/or to experience an original thought!!
It's already over $350,000 a year, as on top of the Congressional salary, which puts the in the top one half of one percent of American earners, there's an even larger Travel Allowance, and an almost million dollar staff allowance, etc. Not to mention the graft they all take from lobbyists.
Some Congressmen come as middle class, but they all leave Congress -- even one-termers -- as millionaires. Most of them are totally dedicated to lining their own pockets.
The Republicans are just as crooked as the Democrats ever were. The two guys contending for DeLay's old job are both grifters -- Boehner is known as "Mr K Street" for his coziness with lobbyists, and Blunt ditched his wife of thirty years for a K Street bimbo, a small contribution from the tobacco lobby. If these guys are the leaders of the Republicans, the Democrats can't be that much worse.
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I'd make it $50K if they don't show up to vote on anything.
I've seen that same sentiment posted here, give congressmen more money and it will somehow make them more honest. I don't see it that way. I agree with you.
Just increasing their salaries will have them wanting even more. With no control on lobbying, we'll just have the same system, but be out 200 grand a piece more.
Public service is supposed to be just that, public service, not a public trough that one can feed at for the rest of their unnatural lives. Public service should not be a career.
Long ago their perks plus salary was equivalent to $1 million a year. That's why their anatomical problem is theirs heads up in a dark place. They have no idea how most Americans live. The longer they stay there, the worse they get.
Carvill is right on a few things. If a non-shrill, non-Hillary candidate pounded away on secure borders, the GOP would be in bad shape across the West and perhaps many other places as well.