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NH pays $100/session. Yes, you read that correctly. Which is why we have very elderly legislators and very wealthy legislators. Sometimes they're both. The MAGAGOP, Free Staters, and "Libertarians" hold a majority and you can imagine how the last several years have gone. It's insanity.

Yes this does explain a lot

Raleigh (population 500,000) has a part time Mayor. That last person in the seat was in charge of business development for a major construction company. It’s ridiculous.

It’s way more than half

My state unfortunately

Montana is the same way. Just impossible for normal people to run.

Also housing should be provided in DC for Reps & Senators - like embassies. The millionaires can turn it down if they want - but 2 mortgages/rents is limiting who can afford to be in office.

Have lived through this very dynamic in LA. It’s not simply corrosive it’s almost mesmerizing. Young people who almost all either are paying back school loans or were raised in privilege fantasize about the ease of money. They were already competitive and when stressed forget what brought them there

DC is not so different from a housing project where the only guys with nice clothes and ready cash are the crack dealers.

a virginia house rep is like… $15k? yikes.

Or independently wealthy attorneys, trust fund babies, or grifters of some kind.

Capital gains raises $246 billion per year: www.pgpf.org/article/how-...

Yup. Relative of mine was a retiree tax exile from Mass and served in the NH leg for one term. Also the NH leg is insanely large in comparison to the state it is attempting to govern.

You should run for mayor of NY

you can get away with it in certain districts (e.g. I represent downtown Concord where a lot of constituents are state employees who we'd be able to pay more with an income tax), but yeah it's definitely not something you can propose if you're running for anything state-wide yet

Omg this makes them look so ridiculous. Laws can be so bad

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new hampshire!

New Hampshire too