Letters: Incentivizing Congress to take action

Published: Thursday, Jan. 17 2013 12:00 a.m. MST

Jon Huntsman Jr., former Utah governor and GOP presidential candidate

Tom Smart, Tom Smart, Deseret News

Summary

Jon Huntsman Jr. thinks the cure for Congress is not to pay them if they don't approve a federal budget.

Sadly, that is not how Congress makes its money. They make money from sweetheart deals that benefit their own monetary interests or investments.

If Huntsman wants them to act, here's what to do: for every hour that they don't approve a balanced budget, pick one law — starting with the most recent — that they have tried to exempt themselves from, and require them to follow it. That includes Obamacare. That would be motivation and justice.

Jed Nieveen

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Star Bright

Salt Lake City, Ut

How about they just have to follow all the laws they pass for us. Where did they get the idea that they are special and can exempt themselves from anything they pass? Do they think they are monarchs/dictators etc?
Why can't "We the More..

11:35 a.m. Jan. 17, 2013
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one old man

Ogden, UT

Now that's a novel idea.

8:53 a.m. Jan. 17, 2013
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Redshirt1701

Deep Space 9, Ut

I have a better idea. Congress and POTUS will have their wealth decreased by the same percent that the debt is to the GDP at the end of their term. Wealth is to be the combined wealth of the politician and their spouse. For example, if at the end More..

1:24 p.m. Jan. 17, 2013
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