What actually is the salary of a Representative? Isn't it an act of service? The problem is that members of Congress treat it as if it were their careers instead of just serving a few terms and then going back to their "Careers" where they would make more than a "food stamp salary".
Doesn't matter what it is IMO. IF they actually did their job, they'd only be in session a few months every two years. They should be billed for every single day they are in "special session" because it is a measure of their own failure to do their job that they are there.
Keep in mind...that there are administrative funds that their offices get. So yeah...they get their part time pay....but they make it up elsewhere.
And then the PACs that most of them have.
AND...most of them have a ton of cash to begin with.
The thing is....THEY KNOW ITS A SERVICE GIG.
I wish I could get 30000 plus a year retire pay....AFTER ONLY 12 YEARS!!!!!
Especially since they only meet half of those years.