Breaking News - The Death Of The "Citizen Legislature" Takes Hold In New York State, As NYS Assembly Members Vote To Increase Their Supposed Part-Time Salaries Of $110,000 To A Whopping $142,000 Per Year!

- By Attorney Bobbie Anne Cox - Monday December 25, 2022

While we, the people of New York were celebrating the holidays with family and friends, the New York State Assembly members in Albany quietly rammed through a bill that not only gives themselves an unbelievable 30% pay raise, but it also ensures that they will all be career politicians, living off the backs of struggling tax payers!

Their salaries are now going to be $142,000 per year, plus benefits, plus per diems!  And since they are now forbidden from holding meaningful jobs outside their part-time legislator job, they will be beholden to special interest lobbies and their party - not to we, the people.

It is the dawn of a new age here in New York. Sadly, it is a new, dark age, where the Empire State, formerly governed by We the People who were represented in our State legislature by our fellow citizens, has now become an Empire ruled by an elitist class of self-appointed, career politicians who have proven themselves to be not just money-hungry but power-hungry to boot.

On Monday December 19, 2022, the party that has a super-majority in both the NYS Senate and Assembly (ie. the Democrats), put forth a bill that would raise their PART-TIME salaries by an incredible 30%, from $110,000 per year to a whopping $142,000 per year. That is a $32,000 pay raise in one fell swoop.

Mind you, the Democrats also gave themselves a pay raise just 4 years ago, in 2018, when they increased their salaries from $79,500/year up to $110,000/year (again, about a 30% pay raise).  We, the people should ask ourselves the question that if our supposed representatives, our servants want pay raise shouldn’t they ask for our permission?  

Knowledge is power!