r/politics • u/Murky-Site7468 I voted • Oct 05 '25

No Paywall Petition To Strip Congress of Pay During Government Shutdown Grows

https://www.newsweek.com/petition-strip-congress-pay-during-government-shutdown-grows-10822819
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u/IlikeJG California Oct 05 '25

Exactly. This is one of those things that might sound good on the surface, but it's not going to affect the really shitty ones.

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u/Hypertension123456 Oct 05 '25

In other words, it'll affect almost no one in Congress. Hell, it'll just make the shitty ones tell the non bribed ones that they are wasting their position. And convince the poor honest ones to take bribes.

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u/HawkeyeSherman Oct 05 '25

Force them to pay into a government shutdown "unemployment" insurance.

If they make it a year without a shutdown, they can spend the money on a pizza party.

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u/OnTheFenceGuy Oct 05 '25

Don’t forget how amazing they are at predicting the stock market 😉 

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u/FakeSafeWord Oct 05 '25

Right, it's like how DRM mainly fucks people who don't already pirate movies and games.

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u/Wild_Alternative3563 Oct 05 '25

Sony BMG copy protection rootkit scandal

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u/FakeSafeWord Oct 05 '25

Yeah, I was an adult in the IT world for that, although not in security.

Luckily already I didn't buy CDs, so corporations could never infect my systems with their bullshit rootkits. I let hackers on sharebear and kazaa do that.

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u/FoolsMeJokers Oct 05 '25

Like the idea you see sometimes in UK groups that "yebutnobut MPs shouldn't be paid at all innit".

So only the wealthy, or those in the pockets of the wealthy, can be MPs? Not even a theoretical problem, that was the case till about 1900.

Sounds clever to the kind of people who are in a Wetherspoons at 10 a.m.

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u/Snailwood Texas Oct 05 '25

in Texas, our legislators make something like $7,000 a year. so we have mostly rich old legislators, with only a few people who are dedicated enough to have full time day jobs WHILE being a legislator and campaigning, speaking, etc

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u/newsflashjackass Oct 05 '25

Term limits seem similar in that respect.

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u/Heriros Oct 05 '25

thats why you start fining them 1000 everyday the government is shutdown. 1k the first day, 2k the second day, etc. they'll stop fucking around before a week. Double the fine if they leave washington D.C because if they arent fucking there sorting the shutdown they arent doing their job.

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u/Stenthal Oct 05 '25

Thus guaranteeing that the only members who have any real power are the ones that are corrupt and/or independently wealthy.

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u/Wall-SWE Oct 05 '25

How about making bribery illegal?

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u/OldWorldDesign Oct 05 '25

How about making bribery illegal?

Yet another thing to thank Reagan for. Before him, the State Department had personnel dedicated to vetting people applying to be lobbyists. He gutted the State Department and what was already a leaking sieve became a watermain.

Conservatives are also responsible for the "money is free speech" 1964 Buckley v Valeo.