{"id":8493,"date":"2013-04-07T09:00:45","date_gmt":"2013-04-07T13:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=8493"},"modified":"2013-04-07T03:52:07","modified_gmt":"2013-04-07T07:52:07","slug":"congress-deserves-a-raise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2013\/congress-deserves-a-raise\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress Deserves A Raise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/040713_0749_CongressDes1.jpg\" width=\"639\" height=\"426\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Americans rate colonoscopies and cockoroaches more highly than they rate America&#8217;s House of Representatives writes Daniel Schuman. They should be given a raise:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Congress members currently make what sounds like a very generous $174,000 a year.<\/li>\n<li>Yet when they &#8220;retire&#8221; to become lobbyists they can see their pay jump to a million dollars. This creates an incentive to quickly create connections and then leave.<\/li>\n<li>By hiking the pay of politicians, a more qualified group of individuals will see the job as a promising alternative and will run for office.<\/li>\n<li>Singapore pays its ministers millions of dollars \u2013 part of the reason why it&#8217;s one of the best managed countries in the world.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about the plight of Congressional staffers, how the President&#8217;s salary compares and more over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/news_and_politics\/politics\/2013\/04\/congressional_salaries_senators_representatives_and_their_staff_all_deserve.2.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/news_and_politics\/politics\/2013\/04\/congressional_salaries_senators_representatives_and_their_staff_all_deserve.2.html\">Slate<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Americans rate colonoscopies and cockoroaches more highly than they rate America&#8217;s House of Representatives writes Daniel Schuman. They should be given a raise: Congress members currently make what sounds like a very generous $174,000 a year. Yet when they &#8220;retire&#8221; to become lobbyists they can see their pay jump to a million dollars. This creates [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8492,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/040713_0749_CongressDes1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8493"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8495,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8493\/revisions\/8495"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}