Reply #22: More to the point [View All]

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Most of the people who serve in both the Senate and even the House are (for better or worse) millionaires.

When they are appointed to jobs (they are the only ones that this applies to since they are the ones who vote on such matters) almost all of them could probably care less about the $180K to $200K salaries. The vast majority of such people would probably do the job for a nominal fee ($1/year).

When any of them retire from service the books they write and the speeches they give will far outweigh the amount of government salary they get while they are serving.

It would simply be nice to see a Supreme Court decision that states that the "fix" that has been used by Presidents past and now proposed by PE Obama is sufficient to meet the intent of the framers.