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Maybe the analogy is: Should we stop paying Congresspeople's salaries because at least three have been convicted of crimes?

Posted by ty97 Sep 15 '09, 08:01

Should we stop funding their offices, etc?

(I'm not making this argument, but it's a fun question)

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We should stop paying those jackholes for a lot more valid reasons than that. -- nm - Ender Sep 15, 08:04 2
- When they're not posturing politically or stealing they do run the country, you know -- nm - con_carne Sep 15, 08:16
- Of course, it's the paradox that the people who would vote to cut their salary is...them. - ty97 Sep 15, 08:05
Exactly. What's good for the goose, etc. -- nm - CovingtonCat Sep 15, 08:02
and, more importantly, how many more have committed crimes without being convicted of them? -- nm - znufrii Sep 15, 08:02 3
- I probably commited a number of crimes on the way to work today - oblique Sep 15, 08:07 2
  - Everyone kills people, murders people, steals from you, steals from me, whatever.. -- nm - Terrelle Pryor Sep 15, 08:09
  - Congress should probably remove the funding for the roads you drove on then ;) -- nm - ty97 Sep 15, 08:07

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