[misterrob]

Do you live in DC or surrounding areas? If you did then you would know that $200K is not a significant amount of money.

[L98Fiero]

"Do you live in DC or surrounding areas? If you did then you would know that $200K is not a significant amount of money."

The fiscal retardation of that part of the country is not my problem.

[billbears]

Federal district court judges are paid $165,200 annually; appeals court judges make $175,100

I didn't realize all federal district court judges and appeals court judges lived in or around DC. Roberts is talking about all federal judges. If Justice Roberts can't get by on $200,000 a year perhaps he needs to quit and find something else to do

[Earthdweller]

"Do you live in DC or surrounding areas? If you did then you would know that $200K is not a significant amount of money."

Do you know the cost of an average size home in DC as compared to the rest of the country? Or say rental costs for a decent apartment?

[new2NV]

I think the real issue may be that people in public service or medical, etc... Have created the problem for themselves. In which they regard their intelligence or aptitude for their profession to be privileged to the Omnipotent. Therefore creating the extreme cost of education, and then being able to live amongst their counterparts and many times enemies. Without who they would have no need for the knowledge to begin with. So we pay the teachers, not the principalities or conglamorates. Then people with apptitude would evolve to do the better good or benefit of The People, which would include themselves. Does anyone think if these positions didn't compensate so well, that perhaps the cost of education would drop considerably? Would definitely ensure that the people teaching the ones we depend on would have all the "tools for the trade so to speak." Stop worrying about the property value as the neighborhood will certainly collapse around you. That's free market right? Knowing how tame the almighty dollar machine.

[The Old Hoosier]

Do you live in DC or surrounding areas? If you did then you would know that $200K is not a significant amount of money.

I do -- and I'll tell you what, as an annual salary, $165,000 is plenty to live on in DC. If they were like Congressmen and had to maintain two residences, it might be a different story. And seriously, most of the lower paid ones -- the district judges -- are living in parts of the country that are far less expensive than DC.