Congress to give up next year's pay raise (I believe it when I see it)

USA Today | February 10, 2009

[Hoodat]

They just got a raise.

[Danae]

Oh yea RIGHT.

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[ZirconEncrustedTweezers]

Any of ‘em willing to work for $1 a year? That would save a nice chunk of money and give nearly everyone in Congress a salary commensurate with their worth.

[Cementjungle]

But lawmakers are going ahead and pocketing the $5,000 salary hike they got at the beginning of this year to raise their salaries to $174,000.

They'll deal with next year later when no one's paying attention.

[Gone_Postal]

Congress to give up next year's pay raise

Yea! they taken it this year...

[lula]

Pay raise? How about they take a 10% cut in pay every year we don’t balance the budget.

[Right Cal Gal]

I’m trying to figure out aside from their homes in D.C., what precisely is their out-of-pocket? They have a staff, a car, and probably a per diem. Yeah, they’ll probably be hurtin’ picking up that quart of 2% at the Kwiki-Mart.

Glenn Beck had on his show this very principled (and frankly adorable) Congressman that sleeps on a cot in his office and sends his salary home to the wife and kids rather than blow it all on fancy digs.

I say any Congressman who has an outside income over the salary of a CEO ($500,000) should not receive ANY salary. After all...”There’s a time for making a profit...”

[ronnie raygun]

Oh see, thier helping with the crisis to, how patriotic of them, but they won’t feel a thing, they’ve already robbed us blind before Obi-the-one and there is I’m sure something for everyone up on the hill in this welfare program they just passed. Save you sh## for some one else to believe!

[Kaslin]

Like I said, I believe it when I see it

[hometoroost]

They’ll just further reduce the amount of taxes they pay to make it up.

[dforest]

They should have given up this years pay raise. I am not impressed.

[eeevil conservative]

BINGO!!!!!

[DoughtyOne]

How about all the raises they received over the fifteen years it took for the bad housing loan policies to cause this mess? Are they going to give those back?

[jveritas]

Not impressed at all. Penny wise and dollar foolish.

[BookmanTheJanitor]

...they pay taxes?

[YellowRoseofTx]

They’ll find a sneaky way around that, at least the dims will and might not clue the Repubs in on it.

[Cheap_Hessian]

They will just use it as a tax deduction.

[patton]

Alternatively, I propose we pay the $1M a year each - on the condition that they never enter DC.

[Aria]

How about we test the proposed new health care system on them and let bureaucrats decide if they’re worth keeping alive?