From an Eastern Shore newspaper:
" Employee compensation is a lot like taxes in that decreasing them is almost unheard of in this country. That’s why it was startling to hear an Anne Arundel County Republican has proposed a way to consider reducing his and his colleagues’ pay. Currently, legislators make in the neighborhood of $43,500 to $56,500 per year. In many cases, that’s for a 90-day legislative session, but many officials would say the scope of their work goes far beyond just the legislature’s time in Annapolis. The senator says he’s not requesting or even suggesting lawmakers’ pay be lowered. He merely wants the law that stipulates salaries can only be raised (or lowered) every four years be changed. He said it should be on the table for discussion with all the tax increases being weighed. In 2006, legislators denied a wage increase. In 2002, a 30-plus percent raise was authorized. Insiders say the bill has no chance of passing, but it’s interesting nonetheless."
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Even Republicans are against this. I wonder if Mr. BS gets full compensation from his employer so doesn’t have to worry about losing part of his legislative salary if they decided to bite the bullet and take one for the over taxed citizens. The stupidity of this is that even if they all got nothing the savings are a trifling of the total budget and wouldn’t make a dent.
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