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Retiring House Republican says $174,000 isn't enough money for members of Congress: 'Most of us don't have wealth'
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@MicroWave @steinbring We should not increase their pay. Instead we should simply provide housing connected with public transit so members of Congress can cut some of their costs and actually experience what it is like to live this way. They already get great healthcare and access to a fitness center and cafeteria.
I understand what you're saying but I think you can't get elected to a national house or senate seat without being wealthy or very connected to wealth.
The income is mostly just a joke. There should be an equitable way for people without an income or wealthy connections to be elected on merit and opinions rather than by virtue of giant funding.
Personally I vote for election advertising bans by 3rd parties and to make all election advertising done through a collective pool of funds shared by all candidates. These fucking PACs are a big problem today and they are everywhere
But the Supreme Court said spending my money to support political causes is freedom of expression protected by the first amendment! How dare you try to limit my expression!
/s just in case.
Schumer lives in a share house when in DC. There's no reason Congress couldn't provide that or dorms or something similar.
You have any links about this? I'd like to read more
https://edition.cnn.com/2013/12/04/politics/real-alpha-house/index.html
This is from some years back, not sure if that's still his living situation as majority leader.
Very interesting read, i did not know this. Thanks for sharing.
It looks like they moved out when George Miller retired from Congress in 2014, but they were there for about 30 years.
Yep, excellent idea.
Housing for them is the real issue here.
Their approval is through the floor and this is a violent country by 1st world standards. If they went on predictable public transit schedules every day they would literally start getting killed by the public.
Sounds like incentive to actually legislate in ways that constituents support.
Accountability can be a bitch if you act like an asshole all day.