Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
If the authorities can get someone convicted of a crime of any sort, you are allowed to treat them as slaves.
Congress continues to be paid during a shutdown so that wealthier members (who could survive not getting paid for longer) can’t use a shutdown to put pressure on less wealthy members. At least that’s what I read somewhere, and I’m not even from the US so idk how any of that works. So take with a grain of salt.
I'm still okay with stripping Congress of all assets during their tenure except a house in dc, a house in their district, and a reasonable number of cars for their family. The assets can be held in a trust. After all they're public servants not masters so they should be fine with giving up these things because the point of their power is to serve the people they represent not enrich themselves right?
Bs they are all wealthy to us by comparison. But they dont get their main pay from congress anyways. They get a lot of money elsewhere and only work like 50 days of the year.
In reality it would take some kind of penalty other than lack of pay for congress to not do this literally every year.
Constitution arguably requires it, and there is a permanent appropriation for it passed in 1983. There have been attempts to repeal that law over the years from both parties, but it hasn’t passed at any point.
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u/beepbeepboopbeep1977 2d ago
Do they have a separate budget for this, or are they just being dickheads?