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tritsofme

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10. I feel like the right has successfully pushed this narrative about lawmaker pay.
Thu Dec 19, 2024, 01:16 PM
Dec 19

It doesn’t hurt the millionaire caucus to freeze their pay, these people aren’t there for the paycheck, but purely for power.

It only hurts actual citizen lawmakers, folks like AOC and others, who are the only ones actually harmed by dumb policies like this.

Making sure that in the rare case a normal person could be elected to Congress, that they would have the ability to maintain residences in very expensive Washington and their home state without being destitute should be the goal.

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