how typical...
Jun. 28th, 2007 10:12 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
acroyearHouse members seek pay raise of $4,400 - Yahoo! News:
Despite low approval ratings and hard feelings from last year's elections, Democrats and Republicans in the House are reaching out for an approximately $4,400 pay raise that would increase their salaries to almost $170,000.Some people really shouldn't be put in charge of their own salaries, you know?
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Date: 2007-06-28 05:24 pm (UTC)consider the AMT (fixed dollar amount) or the estate "death" tax (fixed dollar amount).
if its a fixed dollar amount, congress feels they are still in control of it. otherwise, it turns into something that is attached to executive branch to assign an overseer out of one of its finance departments and that may be giving too much "power" to the executive to effectively make law.
nevermind that its actually an appropriate as the executor of the law to make such a determination in the first place...