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Cyase311 t1_j1d06mu wrote

Reply to comment by sbb618 in NY lawmakers vote to raise their own salary by 29% by Unable-Ad3852

Stop making sense. We want to complain.

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mowotlarx t1_j1dv96j wrote

It's correct to complain when the salaries for state and city workers haven't gone up at all since 2019. City workers haven't had a single cost of living increase since 2019.

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OrangeSlimeSoda t1_j1e6rdw wrote

Exactly this. As Dwight Eisenhower once said: "The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity." They're giving themselves a pay raise while we have chronically underpaid educators from grade school all the way up to SUNY, not to mention the healthcare workers who are threatening to strike due to unsatisfactory pay. It reeks of self-interest and a lack of integrity.

Legislators should be the last ones to get a pay raise and only when pay raises across the state have been addressed. As that old Marine adage goes (which has been monopolized by that annoying motivational speaker Simon Sinek): "Leaders eat last."

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lickedTators t1_j1d3f90 wrote

Anything more than what I make is blatant corruption. Anything less than what I make is a recipe for lawmakers to sell their souls to the corporations for a cushy job once they're out of office.

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