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Ya know, semi-tangent but I just had an amusing notion about elected official pay Isaac Send a noteboard - 10/04/2013 07:12:56 PM

You get that check box if you want $3 to Presidential election campaign fund, I find myself wondering how effective a similar check box would be for annual congressional/presidential pay?

Like, these guys make, Sen/house/Pres combined, somewhere around a billion dollars. I wonder how effective it would be if we left a tax checkbox "Check here if you want $5 to got to federal elected official pay" or "Check $0, $1, $5, $10, $25" and people can do a bit of that voting with their pocket book thing.

So you pay all of them exactly minimum wage, and we total up all the cash allocated on the tax returns. There's something like 160 million filed each year IIRC. You divide that evenly, or proportionally (Pres/VP get a bigger share etc) and that's what they make, min wage plus whatever the citizens feel like giving them when they are filing their taxes. Same as the Pres Fund, it is not a donation coming directly from your own taxes, so nobody would be checking it to personally save money.

Personally, I think the idea is brilliant

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President Obama and Defense Secretary Hagel take pay cuts to lessen impact of sequester moondog - 03/04/2013 09:47:45 PM 838 Views
Well, it's more of a CYA-against-bad-press symbolic gesture than an impressive one. Burr - 03/04/2013 10:15:40 PM 736 Views
considering that nobody in Congress is losing pay or their job, it's a good precedent IMHO moondog - 03/04/2013 10:43:45 PM 565 Views
The sequester was Obama's idea, so he should CYA. Anonymous2000 - 04/04/2013 12:16:59 AM 635 Views
The US economony only lost 3.1 percent between 2008 to 2009 Roland00 - 04/04/2013 03:55:05 AM 674 Views
We do need to cut, cut, cut... callandor1000 - 10/04/2013 03:38:45 PM 783 Views
I don't care about any quantities under a million Roland00 - 04/04/2013 03:40:25 AM 595 Views
the president can't pass a budget you know.... moondog - 04/04/2013 04:45:38 AM 620 Views
No, but he is required by law to submit one, and he has not. HyogaRott - 05/04/2013 06:10:24 PM 633 Views
good job getting your analysis from right wing media and pushing the lies they tell you moondog - 05/04/2013 07:04:05 PM 776 Views
good job on displaying more of your ignorance or willful blindness HyogaRott - 06/04/2013 03:34:27 PM 619 Views
quoting from the second article you linked..... moondog - 06/04/2013 04:23:48 PM 578 Views
*SIGH* HyogaRott - 07/04/2013 12:58:12 AM 669 Views
They need to cut hundreds of billions, not millions; and not over a fake 10 year period either. *NM* HyogaRott - 05/04/2013 06:13:37 PM 296 Views
yes, because everyone knows the way out of recession is to prevent job creation *NM* moondog - 05/04/2013 07:04:49 PM 312 Views
Federal spending can not create real, sustainable, job growth. *NM* HyogaRott - 06/04/2013 03:39:52 PM 327 Views
it doesn't have to, that's why they call it "stimulus" *NM* moondog - 06/04/2013 04:08:04 PM 318 Views
Yeah, and I can call your mama, your daddy, but it don't change who they are. *NM* HyogaRott - 07/04/2013 01:15:05 AM 310 Views
Yes we need to cut hundreds of billions of dollars Roland00 - 06/04/2013 03:17:01 AM 603 Views
Not really HyogaRott - 06/04/2013 03:54:56 PM 594 Views
as long as debt and/or deficit is less than GDP they are manageable moondog - 06/04/2013 04:30:42 PM 735 Views
Deficits HyogaRott - 07/04/2013 01:13:41 AM 595 Views
Deficits are a big deal with times are good Roland00 - 07/04/2013 03:40:36 AM 605 Views
Re: Not really Roland00 - 07/04/2013 03:29:59 AM 886 Views
You do know why we use 10 year time periods with cbo numbers right? *NM* Roland00 - 06/04/2013 03:17:41 AM 308 Views
Yeah, so they can claim a dime of imaginary savings is a dollar. *NM* HyogaRott - 06/04/2013 03:37:39 PM 291 Views
No anything past 10 years in projections are a joke. Roland00 - 07/04/2013 03:02:32 AM 657 Views
Anything past 1 year is a joke/lie becuase the next Congrees will do what it wants regardless. *NM* HyogaRott - 07/04/2013 03:08:39 PM 319 Views
Ya know, semi-tangent but I just had an amusing notion about elected official pay Isaac - 10/04/2013 07:12:56 PM 658 Views
it would require a constitutional amendment, but i think we could get it to pass.... *NM* moondog - 10/04/2013 11:24:26 PM 312 Views
I'm not sure it would, it could be made voluntary too Isaac - 10/04/2013 11:41:54 PM 632 Views
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