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lipsticktracer t1_jayhp99 wrote

Reply to comment by Otto-Korrect in Ethan Parke: Senate bill offers health insurance to legislators, but not to other Vermonters by futurerecordholder

They're actually way underpaid. It's a problem. The only way you can afford to be a lawmaker is if you have a good source of $$$ from elsewhere. If we paid them the state's average income, they'd all get a well-deserved raise.

Legislators make less $$$ than teenage pizza cooks. It's why the legislature has long been dominated by old-ass rich people who can afford to work for nearly nothing. They're bringing the state's average income down right now.

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Hell_Camino t1_jaylbzi wrote

Exactly. Gov Shumlin, in private, used to say that all of the legislators were r****ds and retirees. His language was terrible but the underlying point was that, at the current level of pay for legislators, we aren’t attracting our best and brightest.

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