No
Because a congressman takes the same amount of ability as a mcdonalds drive through worker. While I agree that elected representatives should not be able to vote their own pay increases, its blithering nonsense like this comment that will continue to make things worse.
How do you pay for this? The congressional raises alone are a bit ridiculous.
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I also would like to see the budget attached to their pay in some way.
Honestly I believe there salary should depend on there job performance based of what there constituents feel for the people they represent, after all we are the ones that hired them, so we should be the ones to decide what there salary should be, no different if we was working for them, they would tell us what our salaryâs would be.
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Some People Say, Term Limits take Good People Away.
If they are so good they can run for a different position to keep the pot stirred.
They get too comfortable with the connections they made out of their position they were elected to represent.
It gives way, for New Shinning Stars to Come In.
-Bret 
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Why subject the Nation to a vote for Bob Bureaucratâs pay. The State elected representatives should be employed by the State and have NO federal compensation. State buys a residence in DC for their representative, like the Governorâs mansion, pays their salary, all other expenses, and if they want a raise, they go to their employers, the people of the area they represent and ask for it. The state also pays for staffers. I do not care what California or New York pays their representatives, as long as they tax their own residents to pay for it. If a lower paid representative from a small state wants to make more, move to a higher paying state and run for office their, like real people.
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The DNC is a private corporation wholly owned by BlackRock, State Street and Vanguard (private investment banks that own each other), functioning as the public-facing organization for those 3 private investment banks. Those banks own 88% of the 500 largest corporations who in turn own almost all publicly traded corporations and scores of private corporations. Private corporations can do whatever they want and the DNC is no exception. In the DNCâs case, they do what BlackRock tells them. The DNC employs thousands of lawyers across the planet to destabilize governments and install their own corrupt âleadersâ. In Our case, the corrupt leaders are the agency heads of every major agency, particularly our Health, Food, and Drug agencies in order to serve the interests of BlackRock, not you and me.
The DNC is obligated to â*protect their shareholders and protect against tortious conduct like misrepresentation, not fundamental rights secured by the constitution.â If you read the link above, thatâs from sworn testimony in a court of law regarding the DNC rigging the primary against Bernie Sanders in 2016. When someone tells a court what they are and what they do, itâs a fact not open to interpretation. Dems are officially employees of the DNC. Thatâs how our Dem reps have become wealthy when they are elected, and thatâs why they are so out of touch. They never bite the hand that feeds them. If Kennedy accomplishes just 25% of his MAHA initiatives that will cost BlackRock $2 trillion per year.
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I disagree with you because that is why we have a pay gap like do across the U.S. that is so BIG. I think that they all should be pay the same no matter what state they are from and it should be from the most poorest state in the union. Like Mississippi or new Mexico. I am sure that their are other ones out their. Look at the roads where the fed gov gives them money where does it go. Their is no reason why we should have so high taxes for city and state on everything we get.
I think most of us agree that nobody, especially Congressional reps. should be able to dictate their own salaries; however, in all honesty, donât you think that those in Congress would rather you look at their voting of their own pay raises as âthe issue to debate and waste time onâ (much like a red herring) so that the American People donât focus on the REAL source of Congressional income for most of these crooked traitors, which amounts to 100x to 1000x their normal annual salaries â that being non other than what has already been uncovered by the DOGE team with the VERY FIRST audit of USAID?
It is not like we donât know how these traitors were REALLY being compensated, and why they choose to remain in office so long. It damned sure aint because of that peon salary that we are now debating.
For example, we knew this even BEFORE Trump won the electionâŚand even BEFORE Elon entered the picture. Want proof? Here is a policy proposal from NOVEMBER 2024 indicating that there were signs of massive money-laundering taking place through govt departments, which invariably point back to the very branch of government who is responsibly for SPENDING and BUDGETS â Congress itself, while also describing exactly what was happening within USAID even before the DOGE team even started looking at itâŚ
Bottom lineâŚwe might focusing on the crticial areas that are the real underground avenues and four-lane highways of money flows, and not chase red herrings and microscopic issues like publically-disclosed salaries and pay raises that do very little to save money or pinch pennies. Congress wants you to bicker about their self-administered pay raises â because when you focus your attention there, then you are not looking at their REAL source of income, which is in many cases, more than a hundred times greater. We should commend the DOGE team for their incredible work at reducing REAL Congressional pay raises, like this forum shows that it wishes to do (by different and less-effective means), shouldnât we? It is not that we shouldnât control what Congress pays themselves, moreso than it might be that we might devote our time more wisely and proportionally to what does more to save our tax dollars in the long run, and which efforts might buy us the greatest gain and quickest return, for the smallest and more effective use of our time and resources â and DOGE expsomg USAID in criminal kickbacks and money-laundering, thereby indirectly controlling REAL pay raises for Congress, is perhaps a prime example of keeping our eyes on the ball, avoiding red herrings and planted distractions, and solving real problems at the source.
For example, now knowing what we know thusfar about kickbacks, money-launding, and Congressâ tinacity for creating distractions in one hand while pulling corruption in the other, I would go back in time, identify all instances where Congress publically discussed calling for pay raises, then look at major budget items that they over-whelmingly passed right before that time, and dig through that legislation looking for massive budget allocations earmarked for a particular purpose. Then I would have my fiscal investigation teams comb through payment systems tracking those monies through various agencies and organizations, looking for evidence of kickbacks and money-laundering back to Congress. Once I found the completed kickback trail, I would yank the person out of Congress, confiscate all assets, clawback unspent laundered monies, and throw him/her behind bars for 20 years Then I would have those assets auctioned off and the funds placed into an interest-bearing escrow account that would be used to pay for the future salary increases of the rest of Congress who was not yet caught stealing taxpayer funds. This is precisely how I would solve the âpay raises for Congressâ issue, leaving others to discuss the intracacies how much their publically-disclosed salaries should be, and based on what criteria. As former attorneys, Congress expects (and even anticipates that) you to âgo by the bookâ â which is precisely why you NEVER do things âby the bookâ with them. My two cents. 
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Auditing Congress would be great !