Suppose We Pay Congress to Negotiate?
Let’s take a look at that. We might break the poisonous deadlock by injecting another poisonous source of payoffs to those brave critters we sent to Washington.
It’s been proven to work
Way back when we gave a shit about such things, the Hatch Act (1939) and the Anti-Lobbying Act(1919) sought to place limits on federal government personnel regarding partisan political activities and lobbying Congress. And they worked. You could go to jail for bribery or fraud.
But these acts were preventing the free flow of money and we all know politicians favor the free flow of money a full 63% above the freedom of speech.
Something had to be done
In line with the common belief that there’s always a little toothpaste left in the tube, Congress acted. Took ‘em 54 years, but by god they were going to fix what needed to be fixed in order to fix what stood in the way of fixing their bank accounts.
That would bring an end to the outrage of having to work for their puny 174,000 bucks. The “Hatch Act Amendment…