The Warring States of NPF

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Originally Posted by Zilla (Post 845891)

I think the reason they want such fat paychecks in the first place is, at least on paper, that they want to have high bribing price tags. The theory is, if they were paid poorly, their political position would lend them to more corruption because the lure of money would be stronger.

Well, excuse me, but aren't you basically enacting a policy that forces you to take a bribe legally to, you know, do your job?

So, we give them more money, and they take bribes anyway? Because that's what happening now. Congress keeps on voting itself raises, and they still take money from special interest groups.

The idea behind making officials unpaid is that only someone who had a true interest in doing the job rather than making a fat paycheck would volunteer for it.

But don't worry--it'll never happen. Congress isn't interested in anything other than earning a fat paycheck, getting tons of perquisites on the taxpayers' dimes, and doing whatever it takes to get big, fat, juicy bribes on top of everything else.

ETA: I still think it would be great for members of Congress to have to change their names to reflect corporate sponsorship, Ala U.S. Cellular Field.

Can you imagine it?

Chair: Senator British Petroleum has the floor.
Senator British Petroleum: Please, Chair, call me BP.

It would be like the ultimate in sunshine laws!

They are voting now
Roll call in progress
Updates following

They voted on financial regulation bill
raised fdic limits
salary caps for executives.

etc.

more updates later

Of course this is just stage 1, and it's likely to make it out of the Senate again. The real news is when it hits the House, which won't be until next week most likely.

It was a given to go through the Senate, I'm just concerned about the spread. I was expecting the Senate to be almost unanymous considering. I'm wondering if it can even make it through the House.

[Edit] http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1008/14161.html

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With each permutation, the bill has steadily grown in size. Treasury�s initial plan was about three pages long. The House version, which failed, stretched to 110. The Senate substitute now runs over 450 pages. And tucked away in the tax provisions is a landmark health care provision demanding that insurance companies provide coverage for mental health treatment�such as hospitalization�on parity with physical illnesses.

Okay...if there was ever a time to say it. WHAT THE FUCK?!

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The fact that it ballooned to 450 pages just tells me this has disaster written all over it...

Sounds like they wanna take us all with em...

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With each permutation, the bill has steadily grown in size. Treasury’s initial plan was about three pages long. The House version, which failed, stretched to 110. The Senate substitute now runs over 450 pages. And tucked away in the tax provisions is a landmark health care provision demanding that insurance companies provide coverage for mental health treatment—such as hospitalization—on parity with physical illnesses.

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I might want this to pass now...

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Originally Posted by ironymaster (Post 845982)

Sounds like they wanna take us all with em...

More like have us line their pockets via increased taxes for the poor shmucks off the street and huge tax breaks to corporations. Basically, same old, only bigger. :shifty:

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Originally Posted by Zilla (Post 845986)

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I might want this to pass now...

But this really is not the time or piece of legislation to do it in. It's actually fairly popular in Congress, but has been held up due to debates over how to fund it. Pushing it through with this bill to get a few more votes for it is irresponsible.

It's really true that the "decorate it with christmas lights." Seriously, these things should pass on their own, not stapled to something ugly like this.