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This is how it's always worked.
If members of congress were not paid, the richer members could use a shutdown to coerce the poorer members, knowing that they have enough saving to survive the payment stop longer than poorer members. In a government where shutdowns are possible, continuing to pay representatives is necessary.
In a proper country, a shutdown would result in an immediate recall and disbarment of every elected official. But we don't live in a proper country.
Continuing to pay those responsible for the shutdown is a bad thing. Punishing every other government worker for someone else's ineptitude is bad. But on balance not paying congress would probably be just a bit worse.
Yeah. If they were not getting paid or it was disbared (non English speaker. It's the first time I've seen that word so it might be wrong), then they would approve any budget, which could be arguably worse
This is 100% correct. In most civilised countries, if a yearly budget cannot be approved, the whole cabinet gets disbanded.
Usually this leads to a new president (usually, a PM) getting appointed, but ultimately would lead to new elections.
In a proper country there are no government shutdowns.
A government shutting down is a failed state. That never should happen, and if it happens, safeguards should be implemented ASAP so it can’t happen again.
Pretty sure all congresspeople get paid at least 6 figures per year.
They can survive their entire term off of just 1 year's salary.
But! They won't be able to waste money like idiots/most people on social media.
They get paid 174k a year.
They usually end up needing 2 homes, and dozens of flights between their home district an DC.
New congresspeople are typically very poor before they start getting bribes
That's not the correct approach, brother. Especially newer congressmen will be dependent on this income to live, and this would make them even more likely to be held hostage by the guys with fat pockets.
The problem here is that the consequences are exclusively shouldered by the people, when in fact it should be the administration who gets punished: if they're unable to compromise on a budget, then they need to get kicked out so that the country doesn't stop.
If there's no way of passing the budget with a new administration, then call for new elections and see how the chips fall.