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House GOP Unveils Budget With Trillions in Cuts to Medicaid, Food Benefits, and More
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How about we cut the salaries of all elected officials in DC to zero? They don’t work for us so why should they get paid out of our tax dollars? They get paid plenty by whoring themselves to the highest bidder.
Because this only harms the ones who aren’t corrupt and doesn’t do anything for the ones who are corrupt.
What they should be doing is getting rid of lobbying and disallowing corporate and business interests in politics, but we fucked that up decades ago, so I’ll settle for forcing politicians to wear tracksuits that have patches from every single person and company that had paid them.
The actual answer is that not paying your public officials makes them even more susceptible to corruption.
Yup. I'd rather if failure to create budgets was defined as failure to enact their duty and then we held new elections.
No.
The elected officials who actually give a shit about you and are trying to help aren't millionaires and this will severely impact them.
The elected officials who don't give a shit if you die starving in the gutter are already millionaires and won't give a shit about their salary.
They also don't get paid much. The real money's in the bribes and insider trading
So you want them to be bought out... more?
The solution is to create a system where their political prostitution is both illegal and unnecessary.
That’s the only way you get to shift politicians into working for “the people” and not their backers.
https://youtu.be/PJy8vTu66tE
Obviously not a guarantee, but if they could stop spending 40% of their time worrying about being re-elected and financing their re-election that would probably be a boon. Maybe they could even read some of the legislation they’re passing.
Even after fixing this issue you have the other one where you have a shitload of politicians which seems to be members of a cult, not a political organization and millions of Americans voting for them.
You vote them out. Unfortunately you are just one person in one district. But volunteering for campaigns of people you believe in, and donating to their campaign fund are two ways to help.