Letter: Legislature hasn’t earned big raise
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Senate Bill 672 proposes to give our legislators a pay raise of $39,200 per year, raising their total salaries from $34,955 to $74,155.
Gosh, with each regular session lasting 85 days, that’s fantastic pay for a part-time job. This is especially true since the present earning capacity of a majority of Louisiana taxpayers, working 40 hours per week, 12 months per year, barely reaches the level currently earned by our legislators.
Have Sen. Ann Duplessis, D-New Orleans, and her cronies lost touch with reality?
Collectively, the lackluster performance of this legislative body has done little in recent years to deserve anything close to such a huge salary increase. With the surplus, however, it seems Sen. Duplessis can’t resist the temptation to grab a piece for herself and her fellow legislators. This surplus will not be around forever, especially with the state budget increasing exponentially each year.
Let’s try for something fiscally responsible for a change and retire some state debt or, here’s a thought, fix Louisiana’s nationally recognized substandard roads. Louisiana citizens will at least see tangible results with these expenditures.
Melinda Newman
librarian
Baton Rouge
Gosh, with each regular session lasting 85 days, that’s fantastic pay for a part-time job. This is especially true since the present earning capacity of a majority of Louisiana taxpayers, working 40 hours per week, 12 months per year, barely reaches the level currently earned by our legislators.
Have Sen. Ann Duplessis, D-New Orleans, and her cronies lost touch with reality?
Collectively, the lackluster performance of this legislative body has done little in recent years to deserve anything close to such a huge salary increase. With the surplus, however, it seems Sen. Duplessis can’t resist the temptation to grab a piece for herself and her fellow legislators. This surplus will not be around forever, especially with the state budget increasing exponentially each year.
Let’s try for something fiscally responsible for a change and retire some state debt or, here’s a thought, fix Louisiana’s nationally recognized substandard roads. Louisiana citizens will at least see tangible results with these expenditures.
Melinda Newman
librarian
Baton Rouge
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