Congressional pay, and all federal positions, should be a function of the minimum wage. The job pays the minimum wage times some number. If they want a raise, the only way to get it is to raise the minimum wage.
And c-suite pay should be capped at a multiple of a company’s median employee pay, I’m not going to pretend to know what the multiple should be but there should be a tie in somewhere. Varying industries make it hard to set an overall standard, but even seeing it to whatever today’s highest ratio in the s&p 500 would be a start.
And it should be illegal to gamble privately in the stock market. Instead, ALL citizens should be made equal shareholders in the entire economy, and all companies should be made to pay a portion of the profits to be invested into a general fund, and the gains paid out to every single member of the public.
They can’t pass a budget though.
They really haven’t earned it
Why?
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I guess they didn’t delay deny or depose any time scraping more cash off the American people.
Would be cool if these dips did a damn thing. Just so happy they get a living wage and good insurance (lmao fuck these cretins).
I thought they just voted themselves pay raises when they wanted one.
Is this in addition to the salary they get ever after?
(Maybe that’s just the senate, I didn’t remember, but) Why the fuck do they get a salary for the rest of their lives??
Congress participates in FERS, the same pension system as the rest of the federal government. You can look up how the pension payments are calculated; they’re not exorbitant.