Chaffetz calls for $2,500 legislator housing stipend

[Pressure]

Generally more pay = generally less corruption. Its not a non-zero thing.

If you know anyone who is a staffer, they get hit HARD with housing.

I know a couple. They don't complain. Love living in DC.

 

[Pressure]

If you make 174k in NYC(which is more expensive that DC) you will live good. I know people here making 80k,90k,100k living well in Brooklyn or in Uptown. 174k is a good enough salary for these politicians. Plus more money doesn't end corruption. NYPD officers get paid well but they rob drug dealers of they bread or work. I have seen officer search dealers and take their money. When they take their work they have street nikkas sell them that shyt and give the money back to them. You would think an officer that makes 100k would be less corrupt but it is not the case.

The more money I make, the more money I want to make.

 

[hashmander]

You can find a place to live in the DC metro area on a $174k salary. You don't need to live on Capitol Hill.

that's not his complaint though, it's that he has to maintain a life in his home state of utah AND live in DC. obviously $174k would be enough if he only had to worry about one home.

i say tough shyt, get your paper up or deal with it. the vast majority of these dudes are stacking paper and if more congressmen like chafey get "priced out" then good riddance because i hate that fukker.

 

[Robbie3000]

$174K is more than enough to afford a house and a one bedroom apartment in DC.

If that's not enough, tell your spouse to get a job.

The median income in the US is 30K, the nerve of these people.

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

I know a couple. They don't complain. Love living in DC.

Clearly you don't. They're broke as fukk.

If they work for a a senator or representative they'd be better off bagging groceries for those paychecks.

 

[Pressure]

Clearly you don't. They're broke as fukk.

If they work for a a senator or representative they'd be better off bagging groceries for those paychecks.

Not all staffers are underpaid.

 

[Regular_P]

No problem, Jason. Just as soon as you support universal healthcare, tuition free college and basic income for the rest of us.

 

[HAL 9000]

No problem, Jason. Just as soon as you support universal healthcare, tuition free college and basic income for the rest of us.

 

[Bleed The Freak]

I thought welfare was bad

 

[MalikX]

Can't say he's wrong here. D.C. is one of the most expensive cities in America (like a sliver beneath NYC and San Francisco).

So if you already paying for a house back in your home state, you not gonna have the bread to pay for a place in DC too.

Joe Biden got off easy with Delaware being two hours away, so he would just ride the train back and forth every morning

 

[88m3]

Paging @DEAD7

 

[88m3]

Slate.com
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I do not think that word means what you think it means.


Paul Ryan Says It's Fine If 22 Million Americans “Choose” Not to Buy Health Care
What a mensch.
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Welp

They can "choose" to live in their offices.

 

[Pressure]

My position, hard no.

 

[Pressure]

My position, hard no.

 

[Pitfalls0117]

You can find a place to live in the DC metro area on a $174k salary. You don't need to live on Capitol Hill.

I'm about to do it on 50k, these guys can go fukk themselves

Plus, don't they all get free healthcare for life?