Leadership by example
Here’s one Congressman who doesn’t think he should get paid during a government shutdown, and what he’s doing about it.
I’ve been living in California for 25 years now. For many of those years, budgets were passed way past our constitutionally mandated drop-dead date for budget passage. So a few years ago, voters approved a measure that docks the pay of legislators until a budget is passed. Here’s what has happened every year since: we’ve had budgets passed, on time.
I have little doubt what would happen if we enacted that for Congress.