Congress has 13% approval. Do members deserve a pay raise? Members of Congress salary will be increased from $174,000 to $243,000. Reminder many members of Congress are worth HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS from insider trading
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Congress has 13% approval. Do members deserve a pay raise? Members of Congress salary will be increased from $174,000 to $243,000. Reminder many members of Congress are worth HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS from insider trading
Posted by Same_Sky_7309
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Good thing they have a debt extension bill to pass.
Can’t see too many objections this time around. Who else would get a 40% pay rise just from voting yes
Despite their whining about not getting a pay raise in 7 years or something like that, Congress is not meant to be a lifetime role. A 2nd house in the DC area isn’t required. A brownstone in G-Town isn’t required. I’d be up for a compromise, though, lose the lifetime benefits which they voted for themselves, and they can have the pay raise. Implement regulations that have teeth on ethics and insider trading, which they ignore and made meaningless, and they can have a pay raise.
Only 2.5 percent increase for seniors and disabled on SSA. Guess that’s Congress way of saying “fuck you” to people who actually worked for a living and contributed to this Country
Absolutely not. It should be a volunteer 2 year position for people that had success in the real world and want to help make America a better place. Not a lifetime career for people that have done nothing but make speeches and tell lies their whole lives.
1. A lower salary for Congress helps the old established members who have received bribes and insider trades for decades so that newer members can’t catch up or replace them.
2. Linking elected government salary to public approval is like an American Idol call-in show solution. I can think of a dozen better ways to actually measure their performance that is tied to something useful such as the standard hours worked and not something that is directly connected to what billionaire owners of mainstream media decide to hide and show.
Let the people vote on it.