President Trump is asking everyone to pass this around:
5/08/2017
Let's see if congress understands what people pressure is all about.
Of the 27 amendments to the Constitution, seven (7) took one (1) year or less to become the law of the land - all because of public pressure. Congressional Reform Act of 2017
1. No Tenure / No Pension. A Congressman / woman collects a salary while in office and receives no pay when they're out of office.
2. Congress (past, present, & future) participates in Social Security. - All funds in the Congressional retirement fund move to the Social Security system immediately. All future funds flow into the Social Security system, and Congress participates with the American people. It may not be used for any other purpose.
3. Congress can purchase their own retirement plan, just as all Americans do.
4. Congress will no longer vote themselves a pay raise. Congressional pay will rise by the lower of CPI or 3%.
5. Congress loses their current health care system and participates in the same health care system as the American people.
6. Congress must equally abide by all laws they impose on the American people.
7. All contracts with past and present Congressmen/women are void effective ______. The American people did not make this contract with Congressmen/women. Congress made all these contracts for themselves. Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, so ours should serve their term(s), then go home and go back to work.
THIS IS HOW WE FIX CONGRESS!
Worst idea ever unless you want society to be led exclusively by independently wealthy people and/or those making bank from influence peddling.
I would like to see politicians be generously reimbursed for their services. Double or triple what they earn today. The sacrifice, however, is that politicians lives are a completely open book with no privacy. All their financial information, where they go, who they see, what they say, etc, etc. Very importantly, anyone trying to skirt the rules will go to jail, and a real jail like where poor people go.
The solution for anyone who does not want that kind of scrutiny is to stay out of politics or 'public service.' Very simple.
The kind of monitoring I've described is actually quite close to what Joe Sixpack lives under today so it's not like it should be terribly onerous for our political and social leadership.