It applies to staffers too. A lot of staffers are already making only $60k. In DC, you need 3-4 roommates to afford rent on that salary. Also, these are people with law degrees.
Guess what happens when they get a job offer from a lobbying firm offering $400k? Suddenly their principles are negotiable.
I disagree. Low salaries in congress is exactly the kind of thing that gives lobbyists power.
Poor staffers and low paid representatives are more likely to become lobbyists themselves or to take bribes. Congresspeople should be given an ultimatum, they can only serve in congress if they agree to never make income from any other source ever again in their lives… even after one term. In return, they’re guaranteed a modest pension starting when they leave that pays 80% of their current salary (should be a healthy salary), increasing with inflation. They can not trade stocks, accept gifts, or own any form of property except a single residence.
If you want to serve the people, you can only serve the people and not yourself. Congresspeople should be truly selfless individuals.
Yeah, it should now be even higher than $25.
How is Kushner allowed to act as a diplomat without being part of the US government? This likely is illegal. Where is the media reporting on it?
By the time most places had $15, it should’ve been $25
I’m good. Though, I feel like I don’t really have the life I expected for my current level of income. Like my parents made a lot less, but had it better.
As you armchair argue against armchair arguing against the DSA?
I’m not. I will support candidates that align with my views by sending them money. DSA is close to my views, but it has too many communists and the org is led by amateurs that don’t know how to speak or win an argument.
Would join as well but DSA co-chair Megan Romer is an absolute wet fart of a human. She makes it too embarrassing to be a member… that and the Marxist book clubs.
What basis constitutionally? Congress never allocated money for it
Guy who lost a war with Iran wants to be president.
Must be the type who has failed upwards his entire life.
Guy better not leave the state of Texas
Jumped ship to Android? Google Maps that already has ads too?
Yeah let’s see Russia attack the UK
Founder said US is planned
Oh? Is this the New York Times doing some journalism?
If anything goes wrong you cannot use the land in the area for thousands of years
Edit: what about this statement is factually inaccurate, the half-life of plutonium-239 has a half-life of 24,000 years. It takes multiple half-lives for the radiation to be low enough to be safe for human habitation. Much of the Chernobyl zone won’t be habitable for 120,000 years.
Saw a thread that suggested Jared Kushner leaked this to the press just to fuck with Jeffries. Either way, he sucks for agreeing to the meeting.
“We enter the Reichstag to arm ourselves with democracy’s weapons. If democracy is foolish enough to give us free railway passes and salaries, that is its problem… We are coming neither as friends nor neutrals. We come as enemies! As the wolf attacks the sheep, so come we.” - Joseph Goebbels