Some members of Congress think they’re owed back pay for the last 17 years.
Their salary has been stuck at $174,000 since 2009.
Not because the raises weren’t there but because Congress kept voting to block them.
Same year the federal minimum wage got stuck at $7.25.
Also hasn’t moved since.So for 17 years, Congress has made sure two things stayed true:
They didn’t get a raise.
You didn’t get one either.
Now there are real legal arguments saying those blocked raises might violate the Constitution.
Which means the money they passed on back then… might not be gone after all.
Meanwhile, a full-time minimum wage worker is still making about $15,000 a year.
Congress controls that number completely.
They just haven’t changed it.
You can call it principle.
You can call it politics.
But after nearly two decades, it starts to look less like restraint…and more like a system that’s perfectly comfortable staying exactly where it is
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