State Legislators Taking Voluntary Pay Cuts
Twelve state House members have volunteered to take a pay cut. Only one of them is from the North Olympic Peninsula. Kevin Van De Wege has opted for a five percent pay reduction.
Today's online poll question at the PDN is: "Should state legislators voluntarily send back 3% to 10% of their pay to the state?"
With 922 votes cast, 88.1% voted Yes; 9.2% said No; and 2.7% were Undecided.
Today's online poll question at the PDN is: "Should state legislators voluntarily send back 3% to 10% of their pay to the state?"
With 922 votes cast, 88.1% voted Yes; 9.2% said No; and 2.7% were Undecided.
posted by Tom Harper at 2:19 PM
9 Comments:
Well done, Kevin Van De Wege!
I don't know what they make in wages but us old farts and fartee's haven't had a raise in our social security income for two years.
Many old farts and fartee's complain about this, but not me, it's life, deal with it.
They should take a ten percent reduction, if I was stupid enough to become a politician I would do it for next to nothing in order too serve my fellow mankind.
Not sure why though, I would just as soon shoot most of them.
One more reason why I don't like Hargrove...
What a joke, if they worked for free, it would be less than a drop in a bucket.
Our state needs to pull its head out of the sand and stop spending money it does not have.
I fear they are spending to scare voters into a income tax.
There should be a state income tax. People who automatically oppose such an idea are the ones with their heads in the sand. Meanwhile, our high sales tax rate hurts low income people disproportionately. Income taxes are deductible on federal tax returns (assuming you have enough income to owe federal taxes to the IRS) and so this means somewhat of a tax shift to our state from what would ordinarily would go to the federal treasury.
I think they spend just for the sake of spending, like, you know, it's not their money.
I would not be pleased with a state income tax even though I likely would fall under it's radar.
I like living in a sales tax state because I can buy many things while avoiding it.
It does suck that they put a sales tax on a food item like beer, no sales tax on booze from the liqueur stores.
We are taxed in many ways that we don't even think about most days. We need to become as crafty at avoiding them as they are crafty at sticking us with them.
anon, 9:30
if you want a sales sale move back to California where you probably came from.
An income tax is unfair, older people with no income pay nothing when they need the most services, low income people can't file long form so they do not get to write it off, therefore everyone else pays.
They needs to:
1. collect from all the tax cheats
2. cut government size and spending
3. kick the f&cking unions out of the public sector
4. eliminate retirement benefits
5. drug test all welfare program recipients
everything will fix it self
Tax the rich, it's their wars.
More whiskey and fresh hookers for my men.
hehehehe
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