Did you know... some legislators pay no taxes on their state house salary?
I only read this in the paper last week. Beacon Hill Roll Call is the most voter friendly, informative news that can only be found in the paper.
1/3 third of our elected 200 reps pay no federal taxes on their State House salary. Those who live over 50 miles are eligible for a special tax break. The 1981 federal law allows them to take a daily wage for 365 days a year as a deduction, whether or not they actually go to the State House or stay home. The daily rate is between 267 and 320 per day, or yearly 87 to 116K.
Health Insurance for 330,00 thousand current and former employee's, their families and dependents are offered 9 health insurance plans fro the Group Insurance Commission. The plans for family range from 971 to 1786.00 monthly. Single plans range from 404 to 755.00. If elected before June 30, 1993, the state pays 75 % of premium, if elected after June 30, 2003, the State pays 75% of premiums.
35 Dem Senators and 5 Gop Senators will get bonus this year, the legislature decided that over the past few years. Karen Spilka makes 83,639.00 as a base salary.
Our reps get an annual general expenses of 7,200.00 yearly, they do have to claim it on a 1099, but they don't have to say how they spent it.
They make out like drug lords.....
posted by Jim Pillsbury @ 6:28 PM
8 Comments
8 Comments:
Sorry.. it's 80% for the first category.
How the hell have we allowed this to happen in this state? Collect taxes on those salaries and help dig the state out of the hole the decisions of these politicians has put us in.
Why don't more people know about this? We need to be more informed voters.
The pace here seems to be slowing down. Hope you know that you are still getting lots of people reading here, even if we are not commenting. But the time between your postings seems to be getting longer and longer. Hope you are alright Jim.
I second the comments of Frank S. I miss the daily posts. On that note, any comment on the decision to appoint an interim senator for the state?
They don’t have to pay tolls, they get paid for commuting to the office, and they don’t have to pay taxes on their income from their jobs. They also are elected to represent their constituents who are “people like them”. Only people like them I know are the others in the same job they are in. So they represent each other. That explains it. Using that criteria, they are certainly doing a great job of representing their constituents.
Lots and lots of stuff going on at the state level here in MA. I sort of got use to coming here to get some insight from a Framingham perspective on this stuff. Miss reading that. Hope as elections get closer you do more writing here.
Good Day ALL,
I've been very busy with to many projects and will gear up the blog more rapidly.
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