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<blockquote data-quote="wkmac" data-source="post: 695839" data-attributes="member: 2189"><p>Good Question. I'm going to assume the amount of his total budget does go up annually. In Feb. 09' I do know that Congress <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/02/25/reid-congressional-budget_n_169847.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: red">raised</span> </a>it's staff budgets by 7.5% and some of that was because in the Senate, republicans who had lost seats in the recent elections wanted to maintain the same staff levels as though they still held those same seats. And not that democrats weren't interested in fattening their pockets and having the repubs. to blame it on. Politicians love scapegoats. I'd assume the repubs. wanted to blend those displaced staffers into current staffing but that's a guess on my part.</p><p></p><p>As for the last 3 years, according to the <a href="http://ivn.us/2010/03/02/congressman-ron-paul-returns-whopping-100000-his-office-budget-us-treasury/" target="_blank"><span style="color: red">California Independent Voter Network</span></a>, Paul returned the following amounts:</p><p></p><p>2008' $58k (for operations year 2007')</p><p>2009' $90k (for operations year 2008')</p><p>2010' $100k (for operations year 2009')</p><p></p><p>On a humorous note and taking a que from Paul's inside the beltway nickname, should we really be surprised at this? I mean how much does it really cost to just say NO!</p><p><img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/FeltTip/happy-very.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":happy-very:" title="Happy Very :happy-very:" data-shortname=":happy-very:" /></p><p></p><p>Vote tally from Texas Congressional District 14, Paul won the republican primary last night with 81% of the vote against 3 opponents with some backing by beltway/party GOPers who want Paul to go down. A trend of returning office funding is just another glaring reminder of the lack of frugality and fiscal responsibility in conducting the "People's Bidness!" A stark reminder even to the democrats per the linked Huffington piece above which explains again why Paul is soundly hated by both political sides.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="wkmac, post: 695839, member: 2189"] Good Question. I'm going to assume the amount of his total budget does go up annually. In Feb. 09' I do know that Congress [URL='http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/02/25/reid-congressional-budget_n_169847.html'][COLOR=red]raised[/COLOR] [/URL]it's staff budgets by 7.5% and some of that was because in the Senate, republicans who had lost seats in the recent elections wanted to maintain the same staff levels as though they still held those same seats. And not that democrats weren't interested in fattening their pockets and having the repubs. to blame it on. Politicians love scapegoats. I'd assume the repubs. wanted to blend those displaced staffers into current staffing but that's a guess on my part. As for the last 3 years, according to the [URL='http://ivn.us/2010/03/02/congressman-ron-paul-returns-whopping-100000-his-office-budget-us-treasury/'][COLOR=red]California Independent Voter Network[/COLOR][/URL], Paul returned the following amounts: 2008' $58k (for operations year 2007') 2009' $90k (for operations year 2008') 2010' $100k (for operations year 2009') On a humorous note and taking a que from Paul's inside the beltway nickname, should we really be surprised at this? I mean how much does it really cost to just say NO! :happy-very: Vote tally from Texas Congressional District 14, Paul won the republican primary last night with 81% of the vote against 3 opponents with some backing by beltway/party GOPers who want Paul to go down. A trend of returning office funding is just another glaring reminder of the lack of frugality and fiscal responsibility in conducting the "People's Bidness!" A stark reminder even to the democrats per the linked Huffington piece above which explains again why Paul is soundly hated by both political sides. [/QUOTE]
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