Q&A: Do you consider members of Congress should just “Maintain the Alter”?
Monday, February 20th, 2012 at
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they should have to expense stuff and the expense receipts should be public record.
Why not really make these public service jobs and pay accordingly? Social workers and such don’t make this kind of money or benefits. Let them use gotomeeting.com instead of hop on a private jet to get to global warming conferences?
At my last job, only the higher-ups got per diems. The rest of us, even along on the same trip, had to pay our own way up-front and save our receipts for reimbursement. They were very strict about what we could get reimbursed for, generally it was parking, tolls, meals (only when one was not provided for us) and gas. What a pain. The job I am with now gives us an up-front per diem, and we are not required to return any unspent money or furnish receipts, and can spend it however we see fit. If I don’t spend it all, it’s money in my pocket.
As for Congress, I think the per diem should be low enough that they would not expect to have much, if any, left over. Ideally they should return the extra, but really who is going to do that?