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c4boom13 t1_isutb5t wrote

Reply to comment by Independent-Ruin-185 in Stop The Corruption by sillychillly

State Congress is SIGNIFICANTLY different than Federal Congress. Federally all members make $174k or more as their pay. Considering Congressional sessions are not a full time job (the rest of the year they spend fundraising for re-election which doesn't count), that is plenty for them to live very comfortably. They just want MORE. If they want to play the stock market and build personal wealth, they can retire from Congress.

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Independent-Ruin-185 t1_isuytir wrote

I'm not disagreeing with you. At some point I'm going to fact check that $174k is enough to live comfortably in DC but for now I'll go along with it.

Everybody wants more. You say that like it's an accusation of wrongdoing when wanting more is the American dream.

On a federal level they're making about what a programmer who took a 6 month boot camp makes a year. 166k average vs 174k.

They live in spotlight under constant scrutiny, at any given time probably a third of the country hates them no matter how good a job they're doing.

I'm fine with getting rid of the graft but you have to bump up the salary or as I said we're going to get even worse politicians than we have now.

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