"We should pay an extra tax to supplement the president's salary

[maveric]

because $300,000.00 is not enough for what he is doing now".
Just when you think you've heard everything a deluded bu$h- loving freeper can possibly say...BANG!
Sometimes I'm jut too tired to argue with the stupid.

[acmavm]

1. What crazy fool idiot said that? And was the frigging clown really serious

.

[maveric]

7. A nurse I work with. She's from a San Diego miltary family.

And thinks that we are doing more good than bad in Iraq. And the Swift Boat Liars were heroes.

When she said that I opened my mouth to tell her a thing or two couldnt. just stunned silence and I turned and walked away.

[BlueEyedSon]

2. IIRC, its $400k. We DO pay it. He is on vakay >40%. WTF!?!?

[Demit]

3. Freepers for taxes? Did that guy get a bad peep in his candy basket?

[maveric]

9. Girl not Guy.

[Demit]

11. OK. Freepers for taxes? Did that girl get a bad peep in her candy basket?

[Silverhair]

4. Consider this:

How much does the CEO of any significant corporation make? By the relatively low pay we give for the job requirements of the position, the salary for a POTUS should be 7 figures annually, maybe 8 figures. This way we almost guarantee that only those who are already wealthy will run, and that they will have ego reasons for doing it. I am speaking of serious runs, NOT symbolic runs that have zero chance.

[Toots]

10. I wonder how we ever made it this far with only symbolic runs.

Or is it your contention that every person who ran for President throughout history was extraordinarily wealthy?

[Silverhair]

12. In modern times the cost of a run have become almost prohibitive.

Things have changed a lot since that one candidate ran without ever leaving his home. He believed it was unseemly for a candidate to beg for votes. He made himself available on his front porch to answer questions.

Do you think the POTUS should draw any pay at all? There have been presidents that have refused any salary.

I think the pay should match the responsibilities.

BTW - I am talking about the POTUS in general, NOT W in particular.

[charlie]

15. What does the cost of a run

have to do with the salary of the office?

[Yupster]

16. The salary is low, but

the opportunities after are wonderful.

Any former president can make $ 39 k a night in speaking fees and can sell a book, so I don't worry about them.

Still, 400 k is very low. It's about what the very worst player on the Yankees makes.

[tjdee]

5. JFK refused his salary, btw.

Freepers can be so mindnumbingly stupid.
For one thing, the president gets 400K.

For another, it's not like GWB is hurting for money. To be president you have to have more than a bit of cash.... but you know, JFK refused his salary. Of course, he wasn't a Republican.

[kedrys]

6. Hey, about letting my s.o. off the hook from taxes

'cause I've been technically unemployed for the last 2.5 years? We'd get a hell of a lot more mileage out of that.

[Walt Starr]

8. I an't buying it n/t

[left is right]

13. I think said freeper

is actually * (or perhaps Jenna/Not Jenna) posting pseudonymously. Nothing else makes sense even for a freeper.

[Divernan]

14. We're paying extra taxes to supplement his political appointees' pay.

In the bureaucratic layers of all the administrative agencies, filled by political appointees or politically connected relatives who are "hired" by said appointees, there have been big fat bonuses given annually. Whereas your basic fed career employee may get a couple of hundred dollars, these professionally inexperienced but politically connected hacks are getting tens of thousands. It was part of the deal for them to take these federal jobs which didn't pay them the money their politcally connected families think they're worth. They are called "performance" bonuses, and I don't understand why they should be given at all. If you performed your job well, you improve your chances of getting promotions and/or increases in grade level, which carry with them higher salaries. Unfortunately for the political hacks, there are mandated salary ranges and years of experience tied with the grade levels. Hence, the bonuses.