California lawmakers set for 5.3% pay hike
California still hasn't recovered from the last recession and a couple of California lawmakers decided recently on a 5.3% raise However, controversy has happened because a dozen have said they won't accept it due to the fact that residents are still struggling to recover from the last recession. The base salary for legislators used to be high in 2007 but after the crisis in California it was cut down and since then it hasn't been brought up again. Travis Allen argued that ever since prop 30 was passed in California to raise taxes he didn't expect his salary would raise therefore he ended up denying the raise. With so many unemployed people in California it shouldn't be appropriate for a raise in certain employees such as legislators while they already gain so much money and there is other billions of Americans struggling. Just as their is legislators that put the raise down, their is others that agree with it. Steinberg in a statement he gave said he had always accepted the Independent Citizens Compensation Commission and therefore he would continue to accept the decisions they were making now. With this new raise even, governor Jerry Brown's salary would raise up. With so many teachers being cut off and schools losing money there is really no reason why should legislators salary's raise up. The government has so much debt with all the things occurring right now such as the water debt and a million of other things. In my opinion I don't have anything against the raise of salary's however i would agree for that to wait a little longer. I think before the government starts raising up salaries they should primarily be focused on money issues they have to take care of today. Instead of raising salary's the government should use that money to make more work fields for all those Americans struggling or being unemployed. First thing to do would be manage the government and get things fixed up and then later throughout time they can have there salary raised up with a satisfaction that they have helped fixed things up.
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