I don't know if I'd actually call that a bad thing. Congress is, by my memory, actually on the same pay scale as the entire federal government, and essentially defines the top.
That is, whether or not Congress itself is overpaid (and given their other perks I might be inclined to agree), there are a lot of other people in the Federal government who are making a lot less than they'd be worth on the free market... because the government, legally, can't pay them what Congress gets. So I'd want to know whether that's a global raise or one specific to the legislature before I got worked up.
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"V, did you do something foolish?"
"Yes, and it was glorious."
That is, whether or not Congress itself is overpaid (and given their other perks I might be inclined to agree), there are a lot of other people in the Federal government who are making a lot less than they'd be worth on the free market... because the government, legally, can't pay them what Congress gets. So I'd want to know whether that's a global raise or one specific to the legislature before I got worked up.
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"V, did you do something foolish?"
"Yes, and it was glorious."