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Old Oct 20, 2006, 08:32 pm   #42 (permalink) (top)
JohnMK
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A neat and handy way around this little roadblock to voting themselves more money. Require new legislation to stop a pay raise, not to implement one.
Economists do not consider a cost-of-living/inflation adjustment to be a raise. They strip out the inflation and look at purchasing power. If it goes up, that's a real raise.
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