Thursday, May 21, 2009

NY Times Suggests the Answer is to Pay MPs More

Editorial - Poor, Poor Parliament - NYTimes.com

There is no excuse, of course, for this misuse of public funds. Members do have a legitimate compliant that they are paid too little: less than $100,000 a year, compared with about $170,000 for a member of the United States Congress. Britain’s taxpayers want changes. They want to make Parliament’s doings more open, which is a good thing. They also want to cut out these fat and far too easily abused expense accounts. That’s good too. But they will also have to find a way to pay their representatives a better wage.


Right-i-o.

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