Members of Congress may be about to get a pay raise for the first since 2009
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.”
Fuck that. Worthless cunts.
Y'all should be getting a pay decrease, not a pay raise.
A pay decrease would only make things worse. It wouldn't affect the worst offenders and would make it harder for someone like AOC to join from a more modest background. Making the pay higher makes it easier for working class people to rely on the pay (especially since you might need a place in DC and your home state). If you keep the pay low, only the richest people with external sources of income can afford to stay in
Guess the tv appearances, podcasts, book sales, and other meaningless things the hustle isn't enough. Minimum wage is still 7 bucks
Lol, that's is not even the most egregious thing.
The insider stock trading is far worse
This is just the frosting on top, tbh. An extra little “fuck you <3” to the American taxpayers.
I assume this will coincide with a commiserate raise in the minimum wage, right?
Right?
Nope. Probably be an incommensurate rise in drug testing and other harassment of low wage workers, though.
Oooo time for me to reveal my hottest take. Politicians are generally very underpaid. When a job puts you under a microscope, involves people yelling at you and inherently lacks job security it better be pretty well paid. And yet any electable, competent politician could turn around and make at least 2-3x as much (as they are making legitimately at least) doing something else and keep having weird sex without newspapers writing stories about them. No one who is rational and not evil would ever go into politics just for money of it so all that's left is the corrupt, the truly dumb and the unpractical idealists.
If you want better politicians then pay for it. Give them all multi-million dollars salaries, ban them from stock exchange, and keep paying them even if they lose.
Only issue is we’re supposed to be their boss. Americans elect representatives to do the job of representing us. If they don’t do their job they shouldn’t be paid, and overall public support for representatives is incredibly low because of the behavior you’re advocating to pay them off in order to avoid doing.
Not sure where you work but if I stopped doing my job I’d expect a firing, not a raise.
To solve both problems the public needs to scrutinize the shit out of their elected officials and be more willing to throw them to the side when they stop being useful, like corporations do to us all the time.
Well if your dogshit country actually had a spine and three braincells to knock together, maybe. Ya’ll literally couldn’t even keep the most obvious fascist of all time out of office after he failed so bad the first time. As a country you deserve this and to the people who still did their best I’m sorry they have to deal with this.
Look Canada isn’t much better, we vote for garbage(or don’t show up to vote for better) and we get garbage. These people don’t hide who they are, they absolutely represent the population both directly and indirectly.
Okay cool, so that means they can’t trade stocks anymore…. Right? .. right????
It really should be a law that Congress can only get a pay raise if they raise the federal minimum wage by a proportionate amount.
And yet (for many) their net worth has increased significantly while in office.
If they outlaw congressional stock trading, I'm fine with them doubling their salary.
Seriously. In the grand scheme of things, they have super important jobs that should pay fairly well. They should make enough money that on their salary alone, they can afford to keep homes in both DC and wherever they are coming from. $175k isn't really enough.
...and they need to make way stronger laws preventing them from engaging in any unethical revenue streams.
Can raise wages for them selves but not the people.
Undeserved.
GFY.
For what?