Full it asap. That's a big liability for you. I don't think you need clean fill for it, I don't know if you have a truck or a buddy with a truck but just fill it with what you can get for free.

For anyone who doesn't already know... The constitution doesn't grant anything. It's a shield not a sword. Our rights are inalienable and the constitution protects them from our government.

DSA is going to raise the minimum wage and decrease the customer base this year. Big businesses can absorb the cost, small businesses will fold.

I take those statistics with a grain of salt. Most cash tips are not getting reported. Pencil whipping the IRS is one of the perks of the job.

I'm not disagreeing with you. At some point I'm going to fact check that $174k is enough to live comfortably in DC but for now I'll go along with it.

Everybody wants more. You say that like it's an accusation of wrongdoing when wanting more is the American dream.

On a federal level they're making about what a programmer who took a 6 month boot camp makes a year. 166k average vs 174k.

They live in spotlight under constant scrutiny, at any given time probably a third of the country hates them no matter how good a job they're doing.

I'm fine with getting rid of the graft but you have to bump up the salary or as I said we're going to get even worse politicians than we have now.

Death with Dignity is legislation that gets my stamp of approval. Granted they waited to pass it until after we put it on the ballot but a win is a win.

Edit: haha you win, you baited me into a reply after I said I was out if you kept up like this.

Dude.. I'll debate with you all day but if you're going to shit post with no kind of articulate response I'm going to bail.

Do you talk to people like this at the pub or when you're volunteering for GOTV?

Ad hominem is not the way to get anyone to respect your opinion. You realize you can't murder the opposition you have to sway them to your side with articulate arguments. You ever won a debate by calling the other person a fuckwit?

State senators make less than $16k a year. Substantially below the poverty level. So yes government pay sucks. If you're surviving on less than that every year please share how you're doing yet. It's not an automatic pension, I don't know what you're getting that information.

You make a really poor argument. What are you talking about with classified documents? Are you one of these right wingers that believes everyone is guilty until proven innocent?

If you're off stocks what makes up your IRA? Genuine question, mine is almost entirely VOO with a little VXUS. Always interested in how to diversify

Off the cuff maybe we could offer voter based incentives. Annually after election the constituents can vote whether or not the official earned a bonus.

I don't mind greedy bastards. Money, shame and pride are powerful motivations.

Unpopular opinion but I'd like to just pay them more. Like I said I don't mind if they're just in it for the money as long as they're the best at what they do. Elected official is a job and most people want the best paying job they can get which leaves us with people who couldn't cut it in the private sector.

I'm not mad about insider trading. I'm mad that I don't have the networking connections to do it myself. We're all human. I know it sounds good to say I would never do that but the reality is a substantial amount of people would partake in insider trading if they had the ability to.

I already posted something similar but he does have a good point. Government pay sucks. After talking to some of my state senators and my local representatives I realized that it really sucks. The really smart people go private sector, we get the second stringers because of the graft. You get rid of the graft we're really going to have even worse politicians.

Obviously there's exceptions to the rule, looking at you Bernie. But those politicians are the exception, not the rule

That's about the long and short of it. Transparency that independent watch dog groups can wade through to find evidence of criminal wrongdoing. In a perfect world we wouldn't need government regulations because watchdog groups plus the free market would do the job for us but c'est la vie..

I like the concept but I'm just not sure. The best and the brightest already go to the private sector. We get the B squad only because of the graft. Government pay AND no graft we're getting the D squad.

I know there are exceptions to the rule like Bernie but he is the exception.