"Mike Marlow" wrote in
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Han wrote:
"Mike Marlow" wrote in
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Give them a good salary and prohibit them from accepting bribes,
campaign contributions and loose women and men.

You want to give them more than they're getting now?

I want to prohibit them from accepting any income (directly or
indirectly) other than their salary.

That would be less than the American way. I can see no kickbacks and
things like that, but there are plenty of legitimate ways of
generating income that your broad brush would be precluding. My
original comment though was in surprise at what I thought you were
suggesting - that they need a better salary. I could not believe
anyone would suggest such a thing...

I don't know exactly what a congress critter's salary is, but I doubt
that it is enough to live on as he/she is expected to in both DC and at
the home front, at the moment. I wouldn't tell them that they can't have
any income from assets they already had before, but accepting any funds
or fringe benefits from any individual or company with the potential to
gain from the actions of said congres critter should be excluded.

While Charlie Rangel may have done much good for his constituents, NY
state and the nation, he should really go now.


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Best regards
Han
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