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Make Congress Earn Average American Wage. (thelemmy.club)
submitted 4 days ago by to c/politicalmemes@lemmy.world
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.today/post/61249435

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[–] 26 points 4 days ago (5 children)

I'll take it a step further. They can have the federal minimum wage and all that entails. If the lowest american can live on $7.25 an hour with no other benefits then so can the leaders.

And before someone says it, annual audits on every one of them. If they find a buck on the ground and spend it without reporting, it's jail. They wanna put us in a panopticon, they can join us.

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  • [–] 7 points 4 days ago (2 children)

    There's always a way for the wealthy elite to get around an audit if they're able to pay off the auditors.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 days ago (1 child)

    That's the beauty of the surveillance state they want, it looks at them too. Don't even need to destroy the world with data centers to automate a system that monitors every government employee as a financial inquisition.

    If you want to be in charge, you forfeit your privacy.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 days ago*

    Lmao if we're going hxc mode. They work like 40 hours a year, not a week. So let's knock that down to 14c.

    While we're at it, there's 350m of us. These shouldn't be ideas or requests.

    Craziest shit is I'm pretty sure that's more than prisoners (slaves) make.

    That said. This is the wrong direction. Get company money out of politics, and pay politicians an absolute fuck ton. They take minimal 5k bribes all the time. That's indirect money, it's for the "campaign" and then they have to wash it and make it spendable. Make that obsolete.

    It will save us hundreds of billions.

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