re: "How dare you cut SS and medicare! I deserve what I paid in!" Your terms are acceptable

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Also cut pay on all Congress and senate

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$32,000 Raises: What Brought N.Y. Lawmakers Back to Albany in December
Lawmakers returned for a one-day special session to approve raises for themselves that will make them the highest-paid state legislators in the nation.

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ALBANY, N.Y. — With inflation raging and the midterm election in the rearview mirror, New York’s lawmakers returned to the State Capitol on Thursday on important business: giving themselves a $32,000 raise.

The wage increase to $142,000, which comes four years after the lawmakers got their most recent holiday-time bump in pay, made the state’s 213 elected legislators the best compensated in the nation, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. That organization also counts New York’s legislators as among the hardest-working lawmakers in the country, despite a seemingly

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