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Re:Senate Stock Watcher by Moodles on Friday April 10, 2020 @10:13PM (#22839178)
That seems like a lot to me though. You can make many expensive things look not that expensive if you put it in terms of “per American”. It’s just the there are many things and they all add up. E.g can’t you just pay them 1 million and use the 90% savings to buy X nurses?

I don’t have any data to inform my decision on what would be the best number though so I should shut up.

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Re:Senate Stock Watcher by BurningFrog on Friday April 10, 2020 @11:32PM (#22839470)
It's not a lot for any individual American.

The reason to oppose it can't be "I can't afford it". It's more "those bastards don't deserve it". And that's not how mature adults should think about things.

Compared to the impact the federal government has on all our lives, it's nothing. If it resulted in 1% better governance, it would be a really well spent $15.

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Re:Senate Stock Watcher by Moodles on Saturday April 11, 2020 @04:04AM (#22840336)
Right, I'm just saying it's not clear to me where the 10 million figure came from? And it seems very high for a government salary. Obviously if it's justified to work then I'm for it.
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Re:Senate Stock Watcher by BurningFrog on Saturday April 11, 2020 @12:42PM (#22842555)
Someone said "7/8 figures seems a bit much no?".

$10M is 8 figures.

I agree it's high :) $1M might be enough.

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