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Permalink Reply by Barbara M Anderson on
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Just a little question? Whom pays for all of these additonal reps? Are they kept in the state and in their districts?
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Permalink Reply by Keith Broaders on
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The average Congressman spends $11 million dollars on his or her staff or just under $5 billion dollars. If we gave 6,500 representatives a salary of $100,000 and gave them an additional $100,000 run their district office we be spending $ 650 million in salaries and a total of $1.3 billion dollars. Reducing the size of the districts and increasing the number of representative would save us over $9 billion dollars,
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Thank you....that is enough to get the North and South walls at least started...
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