SENATE BILL: Congress Should Serve The People Act (Passed)

[Former President tack50]

Of all people that could have picked up this meme bill, I didn't expect it to be Yankee

Anyways as I said on the Legislation introduction thread I introduced this less because I 100% agree with it and more as a fun "farewell" bill for you to debate.

[Former President tack50]

It's disturbing to put some crooks who has actively fought against freedom for the past 3 years like Crooked Truman, Griffin, and Sestak over true servants of the people such as myself and YT!

Sestak and Griffin were on the Tack list already. If I purged Laborites from this text, they would be added back in.

Ftr the only changes I did compared to the TNF list originally was to replace TNF's set of Laborites (Griff /Nix /Dallasfan /Mechaman) with a more contemporary set of Laborites (Griff/Sestak/Pericles/Windjammer)

[Former President tack50]

Nay

I also have doubts about some of the other people on the bust list. Also, is congressional pay a thing in Atlasia (wow I'm rich lol), and if so, is pay decided by Congress itself or by an independent body?

Ftr as a former president I imagine you also get a comfy lifetime salary of sorts

[Former President tack50]

I have no issue moving to a final vote, and I look forward to voting Nay on this. There is no justification for reducing congressional pay and it is not likely these bronze busts will provide the valuable decor worthy of our Capitol building.

You could have had any material you wanted by offering an amendment. I would not have objected.

It wouldn't make a difference, I am not voting to reduce congressional pay, if anything it should be increased. This bill seeks to limit those who can serve to the incredibly wealthy and I cannot reconcile that with my own beliefs.

From a quick search, the median wage in the US for individuals seems to be 34k and even the average is 51k (and it was 28 and 44k in 2014, which this bill retroactively adjusts to inflation)

This is a salary cut, but this won't have Senators suddenly on food stamps or anything

[Former President tack50]

From a quick search, the median wage in the US for individuals seems to be 34k and even the average is 51k (and it was 28 and 44k in 2014, which this bill retroactively adjusts to inflation)

This is a salary cut, but this won't have Senators suddenly on food stamps or anything

You the funny thing is, I bet you never expected the underlying structure of this bill (the pay cut) to be what most likely kills it.

lmao not at all; of all the things that could have killed this I didn't expect cost to be it.

Next time I guess I am making sure to keep the Lenin statues as a reminder to the rich DC elitists! /s