House Lawmakers use the HONOR SYSTEM? 

Yeah an interesting one to say the least

they get to make the system. Like, they decide of someone gets kicked out of congress.

@@jonathanwessner3456most of them should kick themselves out of congress tbh 😂

Wonder who made that choice

Definitely one of the choices of all time

I’ve been paying back Social Security for years because of an error on their end. Had I been able to hire a lawyer I’m sure they would’ve dropped it, but my benefit amount is so tiny, I couldn’t afford to fight it. The system preys on low income elderly and disabled Americans

THIS

@@01SaltyWitch It is intentional. They build the safety net programs to be poverty traps.

​@@01SaltyWitch I feel you. That really sucks.

Factssss

Read this in the voice of Michael Dorn, aka Worf

Even Harris?

​@@Shawblade Yes. She's the clear option for the US, but you can't trust a snake not to bite you. Posturing viper or enticing boa constrictor: pick one.

Not an ounce of

​@@Shawbladeespecially Harris tbh, anyone remember how she was attacking biden as a racist before she was made his VP? honor means nothing to power

In this economy?!?

You have a constitutional right/duty to overthrow an unfair government. I am not under your constitution FYI (for the CIA)

​@@Direblade11"Sounds like our jurisdiction' -- CIA probably

​@@Direblade11Where is that stated

@@superbotnotabot I'm not an expert on your law, but Abraham Lincoln famously stated in some early legal sense that it is your right to fight against a government that doesn't work in x/y way.

Reminder that most regulations are oft only written in blood. :)

I am a retired civil servant. Unless we were traveling overnight, we had to buy our own food.

Tbf that number's about 5.5k per rep, which when accounting for most of them having to travel far to DC and pay for accomodations with those funds doesn't sound too outrageous. Not to say that more oversight would be a bad thing, but if one wants to get outraged it's much better to look at campaign funding/super PACs and reps' stock portfolios.

@@user-kb8rc5vq2i Maybe I should’ve been more clear. The receipts are not the problem. 50 MILLION Americans were food insecure last year. We already pay these people a salary, foot the bill for security, etc. They shouldn’t get a single meal comped on our dime until our children are fed, at the very least.

@@charliekowittmusic I think this is a separate issue, and frankly mixing them together doesn't really do much to help anything. Solving food insecurity requires a mixture of policies, like re-expanding welfare eligibility, and introduce a more graded system where people aren't kicked off completely the second they make a single cent above some arbitrary cutoff-point, but where there's multiple levels instead. This combined with better support for small scale and local farmers (not big agri-business), programs for building affordable (and social) housing, legislation to help enable unionization and crack down on union-busting and more. Getting lost on reps compensation for job-related expenses is like missing the billion-dollar forest for the thousand-dollar trees. That said It's always galling to witness this kind of inequality, and I think a better and more cost-effective solution would be for the federal government to provide some form of accommodation for reps that have to travel far, like some big housing estates for reps with reasonably sized studio apartments to use when they're in session. I think that would eliminate the biggest expenses while easing a little of the price pressure on the local housing market.

The bulletin board is priceless.

She started with You expense at least 2.5 million dollars, I immediately went "WHAT DID DAVE DID?!"

Congress passes all laws and legislation. Take a guess

They looked at themselves in the mirror and said, "You know what, we can trust these people to tell us what they're spending our money on." And then they had a good laugh as they passed this bill.

Guess it's time to bring back that debilitated chicken out again

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On god they do🙏

as they should loool

And public sector workers (bureaucrats, technocrats) are limited to GSA rates. Why doesn’t that apply to elected officials?

Fair point. Devil's advocate: do you trust zoom with your representative's vote? Hypothetically, there are a lot of ways that a national politician's work could be corrupted via bad actors interfering electronically. This doesn't mean it's a hopeless idea, but we might need to prepare some safeguards, or I might need to realize how wrong I am if I am.

@@Hanniah--Heart thst is also a very good point. But you have to admit with the technology we have today such remote meetings are possible and honestly them wasting the taxpayer money like this is ludicrous. They aren’t diplomats, just people from different states of this nation. Zoom can definitely be compromised I agree, but they should be finding ways to make such sessions possible and have ways to keep everything uncompromised. The fact that this reimbursement is honor based and not even receipt based is just the start of things that need to change

@@Pikaholmes221b Em, have you actually broken those mumbers dowm? On the high end of the food expenses in the video, it's less than $10/meal and the lodging is something like $2,600/month on rent for two places that, under current design, they functionally are required to have --one in their home state... That they effectively ARE diplomats of according to the constitution, and one in DC where they meet not just with other congressmembers and committees, but entire bodies of staff working on bill writing and more and whicb ia a capital city of a nation known for price hiking rent in major cities. Hypothetically underpinning some of that with virtual meetings could hypothetically reduce these expenses even further, but they're pretty dang reasonable given the current system.

@@Hanniah--Heart agreed but if the technology to make these sessions both cost effective and maybe efficient, then they should be trying to do it. While being in person is often the best way to get things done, especially when it concerns the entire nation, the fact of the matter is this travel often squander something more valuable than money, time. If they are able to instantaneously meet for these meetings I’d think that will be worth it. Sometimes things are in a deadlock and sessions are suspended, they have to travel back and forth which wastes valuable time. What i am saying is definitely ain’t perfect, and i know very little about politics and these systems, all i can hope for is that things get done, and the money is well spent. While conceptually I understand they can be considered diplomats in a way by definition they aren’t as a diplomat is someone who furthers their nation’s interests abroad and honestly they shouldn’t really have to travel, since it often feels like they are wasting time, all i want is for people to get things done effectively. Though reimbursement on an honor system is absolutely ludicrous, transparency is key in these types of things, if they want that reimbursement they need to bring receipts.

Oh the irs wants to know about the politicians too… it’s just that when the irs says “plz gib money so I can look into it” they go haha nope

Night be true but i still don't get why not require receipts like the rest of us? Or can i also go on the honor system?

@@GoodKnight5252 Excellent point, and something I should edit into the original post. Standards should be for everyone, but scoffing at the price point feels out of touch.

Does it matter? It was almost certainly heavily supported on both sides