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Should the 27th amendment be abolished?


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Yes the 27th amendment was made out of greed,its unfair because so many americans cant vote to get a tax raise and why should we Americans pay for the rising 14 Trillion dollar debt and congress get more money from the amendment.

207 days ago | Tagged As: yes
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What you've written has nothing at all to do with the 27th Amendment otherwise known as "The Variance of Congressional Compensation." This bill was originally brought to the fore by James Madison in 1789 and did not have enough support (3/4 of the States) to pass for ratification. It is also the only one that required no time limit to be ratified by all the states. With Michigan's ratification in 1992, the 27th Amendment was finally added to the Constitution. G.W. Bush gave Congress a 3.9% pay raise for 2009. The 2008 salary for the members of Congress and Senate is $169.300.00 yearly. It's a heck of a lot less than most CEO's (1.6 Million for the CEO of GM) considering the hours and work they put in.

It has nothing to do with Americans voting to GET a tax raise or the 14 Trillion dollar debt. Congress cannot vote itself a pay-raise and members of Congress

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207 days ago | Tagged As: No
- joegupta(6) Supported
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yep, the 27th is somethin' totally different from qhat that guy wrote

207 days ago | Tagged As: No
- Kuklapolitan(3314) Supported
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I sure don't know why the end of that sentence got cut off but I was going to add that members of Congress sometimes refuse their own, well earned, pay raises! And who would vote to GET a tax raise?

207 days ago | Tagged As: No



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