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This is a good idea seeing as how the voters obviously aren't up to the task of doing what's needed, but it will never pass.
A House bill introduced this week would cut lawmakers’ salaries each year until they find a way to eliminate the federal budget deficit.
Under freshman Rep. Rod Blum’s (R-Iowa) measure, lawmaker pay would go down by 5 percent for the first year and an additional 10 percent each successive year.
“For the sake of our children and grandchildren who will be stuck paying off our $19 trillion debt, it’s time we make our politicians face the reality of our fiscal crisis by hitting them where it counts: their own pocketbook,” Blum said in a statement.
Bill would cut lawmaker pay until Congress eliminates the deficit