The United States Digital Corps

Re:The United States Digital Corps by dweekly on Friday April 08, 2022 @12:52PM (#30959536)

Congressional members (House and Senate) earn $174k/year, which is rather less than leadership of comparable scope is paid in private industry.

Of course, having powerful people who control trillions of spending be not be very well paid themselves above the table has...myriad exciting ways to go wrong.

As a taxpayer I'd rather government leadership paid extremely well and heavily fund GSA audits to ensure strong oversight (and jail time) for those that abuse the position. Fun fact: GSA saves taxpayers $10 for every $1 spent.

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Re:The United States Digital Corps by chrisseaton on Saturday April 09, 2022 @08:57AM (#30967658)

Are member of congress leaders? Which people do they lead? They have teams of assistants but they're not huge teams. They seem more like individual contributors.

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Re:The United States Digital Corps by omginternets on Friday April 08, 2022 @12:59PM (#30959629)

You forgot to factor in all the benefits and "perks", not the least of which is insider trading.

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Re:The United States Digital Corps by ethbr0 on Friday April 08, 2022 @01:21PM (#30959933)

Insider trading is probably the least perk, if one wanted to abuse their government authority and access. There are myriad ways to go much bigger with corruption.

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Re:The United States Digital Corps by throwaway0a5e on Friday April 08, 2022 @02:37PM (#30960869)

Insider trading is a perfectly legal perk to them. Corruption isn't.

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Re:The United States Digital Corps by wpasc on Friday April 08, 2022 @01:23PM (#30959951)

I'd bet the insider trading pales greatly in comparison to hiring ex-congresspeople for their access and contact sheet

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