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minus-squareDancingBear@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-25 months agoDo you live in the states? You can literally pay yourself and your family members with campaign money. https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2020/06/campaigns-paying-family-members/ https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/12/14/politics/fec-candidates-pay-rule
minus-squarefinitebanjo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·5 months agoThat allows them to give themselves a salary equal to half of a congressman’s salary (50% * $174,000 = $87,000) while they campaign for office, in the assumption it would be hard to work a full time job at the same time.
minus-squareDancingBear@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up0·5 months agoYou’re just going off on tangents, over half of congress are millionaires.
Do you live in the states?
You can literally pay yourself and your family members with campaign money.
https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2020/06/campaigns-paying-family-members/
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/12/14/politics/fec-candidates-pay-rule
That allows them to give themselves a salary equal to half of a congressman’s salary (50% * $174,000 = $87,000) while they campaign for office, in the assumption it would be hard to work a full time job at the same time.
You’re just going off on tangents, over half of congress are millionaires.