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lol@thinking that people in power will vote to not pay themselves

• samstave 8y ago
  Ha - Yeah thats the point... Meaning - Why isn't this a larger talking point? (Aside from the fact that we have more millionaires and billionaires in political positions than ever - so they are frankly the 'working-class' who would not be impacted by a pay furlough)
  • graedus 8y ago
    > we have more millionaires and billionaires in political positions than ever I was curious about the numbers on this in terms of congress members. It doesn't appear that anyone in congress specifically is actually a billionaire as of 2016[0], but over half of them are millionaires as of 2014[1]. Of course there are non-congress members that are billionaires (Trump, DeVos, Ross, some governors, etc)[2]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_current_members_of_the_United_States_Congress_by_wealth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_current_members_of_the... [1] https://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/10/us/politics/more-than-half-the-members-of-congress-are-millionaires-analysis-finds.html https://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/10/us/politics/more-than-hal... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_richest_American_politicians https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_richest_American_polit... edit: added information
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