I could not even get past the headline
44% Seriously?
And we wonder why we can't get them to enact legislation that is fair to the working man
How about this
Congress, where 44 percent are millionaires, freezes pay..
By David Lightman, McClatchy Newspapers David Lightman, Mcclatchy Newspapers – Mon May 3, 5:10 pm ET
WASHINGTON — Facing election-year pressure to keep a lid on their salaries, lawmakers in Congress have agreed quietly not to increase their pay next year.
As a result, most members of Congress next year will receive $174,000 in 2011 under legislation awaiting President Barack Obama's signature, the same amount they're getting this year.
Under the law that governs congressional pay, senators and representatives were due to get an automatic cost of living increase on January 1 , probably an extra $1,600 or 0.9 percent, unless they voted beforehand to turn it down.
Last week, they did just that. The Senate rejected the increase in a voice vote, and the House of Representatives concurred, 402 to 15. Even the small increase would have been hard to explain in the months before November's elections.
Senators had a median reportable net worth of $1.79 million in 2008, the last year such data were available, down from $2.27 million in 2007. House members' median net worth was $645,503 in 2008, down from $724,258 the previous year.
All Campaigns on all levels are publicly funded
and this charade..
If we took $3.00 from each tax return, then had the feds match for a federal campaign, state for state county for county,
We Might see some honesty