Elected Officials Decide on Legislature Pay Increase

[GOYABEAN]

the people who rapes you of your God given rights say more for us less for you it's the land way Elected Officials Decide on Legislature Pay Increase

 

[Catskillkid]

Wish I could just vote myself a pay increase.

 

[@thewheels]

Gee, I wonder if they'll get their raises?

 

[Bigfoot]

Who would vote "against" their own pay raise?

I can always use more money in trade for my time and skills that's for sure.
I would never say, you pay me enough as it is... So I am voting NO ... LOL

 

[oc shooter]

Bull Shit

 

[SomeSoldier]

We the people should decide and vote on it during voting. And it should apply per elected official, not one vote for all officals.

 

[tirwin1]

I think instead of pay the legislature should be incented to reduce spending every year in some fashion. Not sure how to accomplish this but right now there is absolutely no incentive to decrease spending, only to increase it. Change the incentives and we might see a change in behavior.

 

[Bigfoot]

We the people should decide and vote on it during voting. And it should apply per elected official, not one vote for all officals.

Yes, it should be we the people deciding.

Because...

Like I said above,,, Who would vote "against" their own pay raise?

 

[Catskillkid]

My local Town Board members gave themselves a pay raise last year. It was rather modest and one hadn't been given in many years (at least a decade if I remember correctly). They also:

• Maintained and improved Town infrastructure
• Added money to the capital improvement budget
• Opened a new Little League field/Town Park
• Expanded opportunities with the Parks and Rec Program; and most importantly
• Kept taxes low and kept the budget within the 2% tax cap increase
• Oh and they also didn't do anything to deny me my Constitutional Rights. In fact when unSAFE came out they voted in opposition to it (symbolic I know but still nice)

Have any of our politicians in Albany done anything remotely like that? If and when they do, I might consider it worthwhile for them to get a pay increase.

 

[Saltwater60]

I think politicians should make the average of who they represent. If they want a raise they need to get the people they represent a raise and then they would get that raise the following year.

 

[togmaster]

Did the cost of kick backs go up too?

 

[Shadow2]

They get paid more then the average household earns sounds fair to me.

 

[masterswimmer]

The JustUs system is alive and well.