Posted on 01/09/2014 2:14:55 PM PST by Zakeet
Complete Headline: Congress Is Now Mostly A Millionaires Club -- For the first time, more than half of congressional lawmakers are worth at least $1 million
Congress is loaded, if you werent already aware.
The Center for Responsive Politics analyzed the personal financial disclosure data from 2012 of the 534 current members of Congress and found that, for the first time, more than half had an average net worth of $1 million or more: 268 to be exact, up from 257 the year earlier. The median for congressional Democrats was $1.04 million and, for Republicans, $1 million even.
To calculate the net worth of lawmakers, the Center added together members significant assets, such as corporate bonds and stocks, then subtracted major liabilities such as loans, credit card debt and property mortgages.
(Excerpt) Read more at swampland.time.com ...
Half are millionaires. The other half are future millionaires.
One of my state Reps, John Dingell, over 50 years in congress, is a multi-millionaire........
You know what you call a politician at the bottom of the sea?...
...a damn good start!!!
That has to be the best reply I have read in 4 years.... I was only thinking that Pelosi is the type of person who, if on fire, I would not waste my time to piss on her... But I would the grave as we’ll...
These people have and are destroying this country and ALL of them need to be voted out. But then they would all live well on their ill gotten gains while people like me continue to try to find work for the last 11 months, and no, I have not taken one dime in unemployment benefits...at least I will die with my pride intact.
...and this is just the money that they are actually declaring. So many of them have cheated on their taxes...who knows how much they really make.
So, TAX the hell out of them!!!
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