Jason Chaffetz thinks federal lawmakers need a massive monthly stipend added to their $174,000 annual salary in order to cover housing. Unsurprisingly, he’s making this call just days before he exits Congress.
The timing is no accident. Politicians tend to speak with more honesty when they’re lame ducks — and they honestly believe that they deserve more money.
Part of the desire for more cash is ego, but part of it makes a bit of sense. Being a member of Congress is expensive, considering that members are expected to live in the state the represent while they work in Washington D.C. This requires either two mortgages or a rental or two just to work. It’s not uncommon to hear about many representatives sleeping in their offices to avoid the added expense their job requires.
But that doesn’t alleviate the fact that Americans are in no mood to hear them ask for more money when they already make so much — particularly while their approval ratings are so low and so many Americans are trying desperately to find good paying work.
Jason Chaffetz is on the way out, though, so he doesn’t mind the optics.
See how much more money he thinks his fellow lawmakers need on the next page:
Wake up dumbass you are overpaid already
They haven’t stole enough to afford it themselves
No
Well he is just full of BS
He++ no
You steal enough with payoffs to buy your own!
If that is the way he thinks and feels it’s a good thing he’s resigned.He’s young enough and should not get a pension because he will no doubt have a lucrative paying job in the private sector.
Another question I have if a military person serves 4 or 8 years they don’t get a monthly pension but yet congressional people do.That should not be.
Ok second one in aleppo
congress persons should have to live on the average tax payers salary, and cope with the same benefits
Nope.