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If the debt ceiling is not raised, should congressional salaries be the first thing we don't pay?
how many staff members the unelected unofficial position of first lady gets?
More than one and it counts as an orgy.
Why can't it be if the Budget is not balanced they all are out of office within 2 weeks and the budget goes back to when it was balanced and it's automatic
...might explain why her ass grows faster than the deficit?
What, from all the swelling?
Its too frightening an area to contemplate any further!!
As unpopular as I know this opinion is, I vote no. The salaries are already usually a lot less than they would make in the private sector. Some of them leave jobs making millions a year. All of them could retire and make millions in the private sector easily just because they are former congresspeople. So I don't think cutting the salaries would really affect most of them and it certainly wouldn't save much money on the scale of the deficit. But, I think it might make it harder for non-super-rich people to run for Congress. They need to get a second home in DC, they accumulate a lot of little expenses you wouldn't think of going to like dinners for charities and whatnot and even just buying a ton of expensive suits and whanot. If a regular person decided to run for Congress they would need to blow their entire life savings on the campaign, then they need to get a second house in DC and all that... I dunno. I definitely understand and share the desire to hold them personally responsible for their inability to work this out. But, at the same time, if they cut it now, the salaries will stay cut forever probably and that might exclude normal people from office. IMO the fact that almost everybody in Congress was superwealthy before they got there is a big problem.
As unpopular as I know this opinion is, I vote no. The salaries are already usually a lot less than they would make in the private sector. Some of them leave jobs making millions a year. All of them could retire and make millions in the private sector easily just because they are former congresspeople. So I don't think cutting the salaries would really affect most of them and it certainly wouldn't save much money on the scale of the deficit. But, I think it might make it harder for non-super-rich people to run for Congress. They need to get a second home in DC, they accumulate a lot of little expenses you wouldn't think of going to like dinners for charities and whatnot and even just buying a ton of expensive suits and whanot. If a regular person decided to run for Congress they would need to blow their entire life savings on the campaign, then they need to get a second house in DC and all that... I dunno. I definitely understand and share the desire to hold them personally responsible for their inability to work this out. But, at the same time, if they cut it now, the salaries will stay cut forever probably and that might exclude normal people from office. IMO the fact that almost everybody in Congress was superwealthy before they got there is a big problem.
If the debt ceiling is not raised, should congressional salaries be the first thing we don't pay?
If the problem is just overhead to run lets work on that problem and cut their pay while opening it up to more common people. Lets do ballot reform, lets campaign reform, and then lets cut salaries. Surely if you are really interested(and yes I'm about to make you not interested) you have to take some of the work out of the job so that people can hold a regular paying job.
If the debt ceiling is not raised, should congressional salaries be the first thing we don't pay?
Yes it should. Of course we ALL know that it won't happen. Which is why none of them actually care about raising the debt.
And yes I am applying this to BOTH sides equally.
If the Repubs actually cared they would settle with closing loopholes.
If the Dems actually cared they would have settled with not closing the loopholes.
Yeah I know, contradictory. But it only takes one side to settle with the other side.