Members of Congress may be about to get a pay raise for the first since 2009
Lawmakers could get as high as a $6,600 pay raise as part of a short-term government funding bill that's set to get a vote this week.
“COL raise for me but not for thee.”
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Fuck that. Worthless cunts.
Eh...
So the real solution is to make the House telework, and require all members to have a primary residence in their district where they spend the majority of their time.
However, without doing that I think a raise is warranted. They need to maintain two homes, one of which in an insanely high cost of living area.
Like, when getting a clearance literally the most important thing they look at is finances, because people without resources are susceptible to bribery.
It's open knowledge that special interest groups and "donors" rent luxury living at bottom dollar prices, or even have frat style lodgings for junior House members.
So sure, knee jerk reaction is fuck them they make enough, but they really don't, and that opens the door for a lot of corruption once in office.
It's little things at once, then slowly ramps up until the big shit. You don't start asking a big thing, you reward for small things they're already doing and then slowly get them out of their moral comfort zone, until anything is acceptable.
This isn't a secret, the US government definitely knows how espionage works. So I doubt it's accidental right after Obama won both parties agreed a pay cut was worth it if it makes the poors less likely to run. And the people who do run more likely to be corrupted.
A raise so they can continue their comfy lifestyles all while doing NOTHING for us? Remember -- these fuckers have socialized healthcare. They don't live in the same reality as those of us who are barely scraping by. They also benefit from insider trading and lavish "gifts."
Nah, fuck all that. Don't lick their boots.
That’s not what they’re saying at all. I’ll repeat it but they do a very good job explaining it, re-read it if you have to.
The most important point is that the lower the salary, the more someone would find themselves needing to take extras from someone. It has the same basic vibe of being afraid of losing your health insurance so you don’t fight back when your company asks you to do questionable shit. This becomes a huge barrier for people that don’t have the money to ignore bribery and the people that do are way more likely to not be great people in the first place.
Without adequate salary the working class has a way harder time breaking into politics.
Ding ding ding
