Congress, your day is coming soon! Look at these salaries?

Question

Here is a link that reports the history of Congressional salaries.

Did you know they started at $6 per diem (per day)
Vice President - $192,600 ; Speaker of the House - $192,600 ; Majority & Minority Leaders of the Senate & House - $166,700 ; Senators & Representatives - $150,000 ; Cabinet members (Executive Schedule, Level 1) - $166,700; House passes minimum wage hike, estate tax cut
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- By a vote of 230-180, the House gave the go-ahead early Saturday to legislation that gradually boosts the minimum wage from $5.15 to $7.25 an hour, phased over three years.

The measure also included a cut in the federal inheritance tax mostly paid by the wealthy.

Republican leaders made the minimum wage increase more palatable to their ranks by attaching it to a package of tax cuts they've been pushing, including a major reduction in the estate tax. (Posted 2:30 a.m.)

House passes minimum wage hike, estate tax cut
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The House gave the go-ahead to legislation to raise the minimum wage for the first time in nine years.

The measure also included a cut in the federal inheritance tax. (Posted 1:53 a.m.)

PRESIDENT GOT A RAISE IN 2001, he was making $200,000, but I guess the stress of committing genocide was getting too him, he makes $400,000 a year.
ABE FOR PRESIDENT

http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/07/29/saturday/index.html

http://www.congresslink.org/print_basics_pay.htm

http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/fedprssal.html

Answer 1

None of those people make that much money compared to corporate executives, investment bankers, big time lawyers and doctors, televangelist/entrepeneurs, musicians, actors, atheletes who make from 5 to 200 times as much.

Answer 2

Yeah don't you just love that! Everytime I see a taped session of congress, I always see some guy snoozing out and I wonder how much money he's getting paid for every moment he drools on his lap. It's like watching the oil companies say that there's nothing unnatural going on with the high gas prices and how they wish they could do something...and then you see their profit margins going through the roof and it makes you sit back and go hmmmm.

Answer 3

Senators and Representatives only make $150,000 per year? They must really like that job (a lot of them give up a lucrative law practice of over $250,000 a year and maybe a bunch more).

I also doubt they get to submit their travel reciepts for reimbursement...

Answer 4

yeah that's totally bogus but all of congress is corupt what do u expect. wouldnt it be nice to give yourself a raise like congress does oh i,m gonna add 3,000 to my riase do u all agress lets vote who thinks we should screw over the tax payers and make them pay uss 3 grand moore for the horrible job we are doing. i do i do

Answer 5

They even have credit cards, and some file bankruptcy because they charged to much. another knife in our backs.... And me? Well I sit on my dairy-air and make around 65Gs. But I operate a crane... Hmmmm. Mayor, Governor, Senator? Nah.........