What do you all think of this?

[HoosierDirtFan]

DRAIN THE SWAMP IN WASHINGTON D.C.

Congressional Reform Act of 2017

1. No Tenure / No Pension. A Congressman/woman collects a salary while in office and receives no pay when they're out of office and, no more perks go with them.

2. Congress (past, present, & future) participates in Social Security. All funds in the Congressional retirement fund move to the Social Security system immediately. All future funds flow into the Social Security system, and Congress participates with the American people. It may not be used for any other purpose.

3. Congress must purchase their own retirement plan, just as ALL Americans do.

4. Congress will no longer vote themselves a pay raise. Congressional pay will rise by the lower of CPI or 3%.

5. Congress loses their current health care system and participates in the same health care system as the American people.

6. Congress must equally abide by all laws they impose on the American people (i.e. NO MORE INSIDER TRADING!!!).

7. All contracts with past and present Congressmen/women are void. The American people did not make this contract with Congressmen/women. Congress made all these contracts by and for themselves.

Serving in Congress is an honor and privilege NOT a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators should serve their term(s), then go home and go back to work ... not get all kinds of freebies.

Drain the swamp!!

[Tyy7777]

How about we just first focus on getting a non-elected citizen out of government?

Then just focus on making sure we don't turn into 1930s Germany, not that I think many of you would have an issue with that.

I also think a lot of you fail to realize what being a politician is like, which is not surprising because I'm guessing things in your area aren't going great or not everything aligns with your world view and so all politicians must be bad.

This Act would not doing anything beneficial. It would drive people out and we'd left with a bunch of people who just wanted some form or power or wanted to obtain money illegally (insider trading). This gives them a reason to do that. They should be paid more. We'd find ourselves with a higher standard of politician. Corruption would also be less attractive to the average politician.