• heavyboots@lemmy.ml
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    6 months ago

    Let’s do it slightly differently, let’s make the mandatory retirement age for political office the median life expectancy age for the entire country. If the politicians, etc can manage to make everyone live longer, they can hold office longer.

    Similarly, take away their separate and different medical coverage and put them on the same Medicare system everyone else in the country has to use.

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      6 months ago

      I think they should also be paid using their state’s disability/unemployment system and get food through their state’s EBT system.

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      6 months ago

      I love the idea but if anyone knows how to fudge numbers it’s them.

      It will only be a matter of time before you hear that the median life expectancy for Americans is 125.

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      6 months ago

      Oh hell yeah.

      Force them to use the public option. Make a law to specifically disallow all congresspersons from enrolling in private insurance for as long as they hold office. Violation of that restriction is immediate ejection from the relevant legislative chamber.

      We would have single payer by next Tuesday.