not sure if this is true or not.

[Auld Phart]

DID YOU KNOW?
"The Founding Fathers only paid the Senators and Representatives a “Per Diem” amount when in session. Why? because the Founding Fathers knew if Congress were ever to be paid salaries (which they could vote to increase themselves), then Congress would no longer be “of the people” but rather “above the people”. They wanted those in Congress to be subject to the same economic and financial conditions as the rest of the nation based upon the laws they passed"

I got it off FB, does anyone know if it has any basis in fact?

If it was true, we need to go back to it.

 

[Darkwind]

DID YOU KNOW?
"The Founding Fathers only paid the Senators and Representatives a “Per Diem” amount when in session. Why? because the Founding Fathers knew if Congress were ever to be paid salaries (which they could vote to increase themselves), then Congress would no longer be “of the people” but rather “above the people”. They wanted those in Congress to be subject to the same economic and financial conditions as the rest of the nation based upon the laws they passed"

I got it off FB, does anyone know if it has any basis in fact?

If it was true, we need to go back to it.

It is a bit more nuanced than that, but the Founding Fathers indeed thought that.

They did pay them a 'per diem' salary, to offset their expenses for travel to the job and to feed them.

I don't know that we can, honestly, go back to that, given the scope of government interference in the lives of the citizenry.

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

DID YOU KNOW?
"The Founding Fathers only paid the Senators and Representatives a “Per Diem” amount when in session. Why? because the Founding Fathers knew if Congress were ever to be paid salaries (which they could vote to increase themselves), then Congress would no longer be “of the people” but rather “above the people”. They wanted those in Congress to be subject to the same economic and financial conditions as the rest of the nation based upon the laws they passed"

I got it off FB, does anyone know if it has any basis in fact?

If it was true, we need to go back to it.

The Preppy Republic, Just Like Rome

They were all hereditary plutocrats, so they didn't need to even be paid anything at all.

 

[whitehall]

Congress can vote themselves raises and that's why the genius Founding Fathers decreed that they would have to run for reelection every two years.

 

[Zebra]

Congress can vote themselves raises and that's why the genius Founding Fathers decreed that they would have to run for reelection every two years.