Proposed 28th Amendment to the United States Constitution: "Congress shall make no law that applies to the citizens of the United States that does not apply equally to the Senators and/or Representatives; and, Congress shall make no law that applies to the Senators and/or Representatives that does not apply equally to the citizens of the United States " YES!!
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They first get a pay cut and only convene Congress regularly once a year for 3 to 6 months, excluding any possible brief emergency sessions. Serving in Congress was never to be a year round, full time job. Both Senators & representatives must live in the district and state they represent and must have another job or income. Congress & no federal employee will have a separate government retirement plan that is different in scope & pays out higher benefits than Social Security. They can of course open their own personal IRAs to save for retirement.
And the people vote on their pay raises, not them!
Theybshlild be paid by the state they come from. Salary set by the house.
They get the same benefits, no retirement and if they don't do their job they get recalled and replaced.
Read the pension plan for federal employees. 1% times the number of years in service times the average salary of the high three years. Twenty years of service gives you 20% of the average of the high three years. GS pay scale can be viewed here for 2022
https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/pay-leave/salaries-wages/salary-tables/22Tables/html/GS.aspx
Most employees do not make it past GS 10. There is an additional locality pay that is added to the salary based on the costs in your locale that does increase the liveabilty in your specific area. If you do 20 years and are younger than 57, you don't collect any pension until a minimum of 57 and 9 mos. Every year you start collecting before age 62, you lose 5%. If you start at 62, you make about 15k per year with GS 10 and 20 years of service. Not exactly robbing the bank.
So what is it for Congress?
Supposedly its the same, but i don't believe that for a second. The other advantage of a government job is that i only pay $550 a month for health insurance. I've never used it, but from what my father pays just to insure my stepmom $1400 per month, I'm pretty happy. My dad was a self employed General Contractor. He uses the VA for his medical. He is a Vietnam Era veteran.