Why Donald Trump needs to take a salary...

PostmodernProphet said:
sure they are.....I pay taxes......they aren't YOUR employees.......
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They pay taxes, too, so using your logic, they are self employed.

Your name is not on the paycheck. You don't do the job descriptions nor the evaluations. You neither create nor eliminate the positions.

How the fuck can you be so chronically wrong?
 
Yaya said:
Where do you think the money comes from?
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From taxpayers, including those same employees. Are they then self-employed?

Where does the money come from for a Sears employee? From sales to customers. When you buy your Sears washer, do you presume you're their boss?
 
sear said:
"Debate"?

Discuss.

For you see:

a) This has been an unusual election.
- Trump is reported to be the first U.S. president elect in history that has neither political nor military experience.

- Trump was a dark horse in a primary with over a dozen candidates, several of whom had more conventional résumés.

- Numerous usually reliable polling agencies reported Trump had a <20% chance of winning.

- Trump is exceedingly unpresidential, speaks with candor about sexually exploiting women, including confessing to groping their genitalia.

b) The U.S. electorate is a minority of the U.S. population. A minority of the electorate * has just placed this evidently uncouth man's finger on the button that has the capacity to reduce the human population of the solar system to a tiny fraction of current level.

Do you really think a minority of a minority of ONE nation, should have the power to clobber the human race like that should be outside the realm of polite discussion?

* Trump is reported to have lost the popular vote to his political rival Hillary Clinton (D-NY); but won the electoral college.
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Damocles said:
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/11/donald-trump-salary-george-washington-214458?cmpid=sf

I knew that somebody would complain about it... I just didn't know what form it would take:

In his first interview as president-elect, Donald Trump pledged that he will accept as little of the presidential salary as he can get away with. “I think I have to by law take $1, so I’ll take $1 a year,” he told CBS’s Leslie Stahl. “$400,000 you’re giving up,” she responded, as if this were some sort of public-spirited sacrifice.

It is anything but a sacrifice. The precedent of insisting that the president accept a salary—not in his interest, but in the public interest—is as old as the first Congress, even older. The American framers considered payment of the presidential salary an important duty under the Constitution, and the principle that moved them then matters just as much as it ever did: It confirms that the president serves the public, and not the other way around. If the Founders’ reasons were good enough to persuade George Washington, our first independently wealthy president, they should be good enough for Donald Trump.

More at link...
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I agree that a public servant should try to live on that salary. A previous republican administration in California did something similar; after "firing" the incumbent democrat governor.

The republican left with similar ratings, but was not fired for it.
 
#49

Very well dp.

In New York State there's a current controversy.
Our State legislators are among the best paid in the nation, 3rd or 4th best if I'm not mistaken.
But it is a quirk of such bodies (legislatures, and corporate boards) that they can name their own salary. Who else on Earth can vote themselves a pay increase?

Technically, New York State legislators hold a "part time" as distinct from a "full time" position.
I imagine that means they're not only allowed by law, but perhaps encouraged to hold additional (non-legislative) employment.

I'd welcome your thoughts on the wisdom of this current arrangement.

Bonus Q:
What do you think a State legislator should be $paid?
 
Special pleading much? We are discussing the Executive Branch, not the Legislative Branch.

I believe our legislators should be able to enjoy their cushy, part time jobs.
 
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