After SPIN! Video: Do Legislators deserve a raise?
Published March 1, 2017
After SPIN! "Question to Joe Mavretic and Dennis Wicker - Since colonial times North Carolina's legislative body has consisted of part-time citizen legislators. In recent years, cost of election campaigns has escalated, service in the Legislature has required a larger amount of our lawmaker's time and there have been proposals to make our legislators full-time or at least raise their compensations and expense allowances. Salaries, per-diems and mileage reimbursements haven't been raised in 20 years. What do you think of proposals to increase legislative compensation?"
March 1, 2017 at 10:47 am
Bruce Stanley says:
Possible bonus pay if they create budget surpluses for the taxpayers, similar to management bonuses if profits made for shareholders, otherwise no pay increases, or even pay decreases if they produce budget losses.
