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Title: Your taxes go up & feds get raise
Post by: Frosty on December 29, 2012, 09:17:58 PM

I believe the only pay raises should go to our military men & women -- NOT the fools on the HILL!
http://freedomoutpost.com/2012/12/your-taxes-are-about-to-go-up-but-so-is-congress-federal-workers-pay/ (http://freedomoutpost.com/2012/12/your-taxes-are-about-to-go-up-but-so-is-congress-federal-workers-pay/)

Title: Re: Your taxes go up & feds get raise
Post by: Big Frank on December 29, 2012, 10:16:16 PM

Politicians should be paid minimum wage. If they say they can't live on that ask them how they think anyone else can.

Title: Re: Your taxes go up & feds get raise
Post by: tombogan03884 on December 29, 2012, 10:20:32 PM

Politicians should not be paid.
And don't get me started on "minimum wage".
It's a self defeating idiocy that raises prices and lowers employment..

Title: Re: Your taxes go up & feds get raise
Post by: Magoo541 on December 30, 2012, 07:30:52 PM

Quote from: tombogan03884 on December 29, 2012, 10:20:32 PM

Politicians should not be paid.
And don't get me started on "minimum wage".
It's a self defeating idiocy that raises prices and lowers employment..

+1
Beat me to it...

And the original intent behind our representatives was to discourage "Professional Politicians" because, as we have seen, it leads to deplorable policies.

Title: Re: Your taxes go up & feds get raise
Post by: PegLeg45 on December 30, 2012, 07:42:16 PM

Quote from: Magoo541 on December 30, 2012, 07:30:52 PM

+1
Beat me to it...

And the original intent behind our representatives was to discourage "Professional Politicians" because, as we have seen, it leads to deplorable policies.

Yep.

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.~~Thomas Jefferson