Pay government employees specified multiples of minimum wage?

[Boojatta]

Should wages of government employees (such as politicians, judges, bureaucrats, etc.) be expressed as multiples of minimum wage?

There would be a clear difference between raising the wages of government employees by raising minimum wage and raising the wages of government employees by demanding ever higher multiples of minimum wage.

Note: a given multiple is not necessarily an integer. For example, a particular government job might pay 3.81 times minimum wage. The number 3.81 would not change unless there is new legislation. Information about the legislation would be available in public libraries and on government websites accessible to the media and the general public.

[valerief]

1. Too bad the gummint gets to decide on such a proposal. nt

[Boojatta]

6. Fortunately there's a process for electing new representatives.

The notion of democracy is that "gummint" is not based on hereditary privilege, but rather governs with the consent of the governed.

[hobbit709]

2. Politicians should get paid piecework rates.

Don't get anything accomplished-don't get paid.

[bobbolink]

7. .

:rofl:

:thumbsup:

[Obamanaut]

9. Here is an example of not accomplishing anything

<snip>The 110th Congress, whose term officially ends in January, hasn't passed any spending bills or attacked high gasoline prices. But it has used its powers to celebrate watermelons and to decree the origins of the word "baseball."<snip>


<snip>Democratic Rep. Charlie Wilson of Ohio, a fourth-generation undertaker, sponsored a National Funeral Director and Mortician Recognition Day. Republican Sen. Saxby Chambliss, whose home state of Georgia has 24,000 acres planted in watermelon, pushed a resolution establishing July as National Watermelon Month.<snip>

Much more at http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121910897089651793.html...

Come November, we can expect about 90% of incumbents of the House and Senate who seek reelection will keep their jobs.

And, there will be the almost automatic pay raise that they will get unless they vote against it. They rarely do.

edited to change first word of subject line to 'here'

[razors edge]

3. Why not just tell it like it is,

We used to have leaders who were not afraid to do so.

"Government is not reason. Government is not eloquence. It is force." George Washington

Then let them try to pass a wage increase for congress after failing to pass a minimum wage increase until after inflation had already removed any actual increase in realized gains for the working poor.

[RedRocco]

4. Ive always thought that ,

if our congress-critters were paid the median wage of the district that they represent they would do a better job of representing their constituents

[Naturyl]

5. Not a bad idea. n/t

[Boojatta]

8. Kick

[DeadEyeDyck]

10. Why not just do away with wages and let people have a gov

credit card. Just use it for what you need and it is charged to the government. Just saving the cost of printing money and processing would probably pay for it.

[Boojatta]

11. That would create a substantial debt.

Are you suggesting that if government employees had wage increases when minimum wage increased and in proportion to the increase in minimum wage, then the size and frequency of the increase in wages of government employees would be excessive?

[Boojatta]

12. Kick