Ben Goddard writes in The Hill about the new taxpayer revolt in California this week. The political establishment put together a package of initiatives that it thought would fix the budget process there – but the people weren’t buying it. The only thing they passed was the measure to ban salary increases for legislators if [...]
California Proposition 1F is a measure on the ballot for the May 19 election in California.
It would prohibit the state commission that sets salary levels for the governor, other top state officials, and members of the California State Legislature from increasing those salaries if the state General Fund is expected to end the year with [...]
In January, Congress got a pay raise of $4,700, bringing their salaries to $174,000. Not bad at all, when you consider that people around the country are losing their jobs or taking pay cuts just to keep them.
In a recent comment on our post about bills to deny Congress pay increases, for example, a [...]
This bill would prevent Congress from getting an automatic pay raise.
Update: And here’s a bill to prevent Congress from getting a pay increase in any year when the government is running a deficit.
Update II: And another.
Update III: And another.
Update IV: Yet another.
Update V: Here’s another.
Update VI: Here’s another and another.
Update VII: By golly, here’s another.
Update [...]
Via the Enlightened Redneck, Congress is getting a raise. In fact, they have set it up to give themselves a raise automatically, no matter what their work produces:
A crumbling economy, more than 2 million constituents who have lost their jobs this year, and congressional demands of CEOs to work for free did not [...]