People keep suggesting this without thinking it through

Many congress members are quite wealthy. They could easily go without their salary at all, for their entire tenure. These people tend to make money off stock trading (at suspiciously high rates, but that's a different discussion), in addition to other investments and "consulting" generating revenue for them

There are, however, at least a few congress members that are not independently wealthy. Those members are actually working class and rely on their salary to live. Those people are the ones that will be squeezed without a paycheck

What do you think the end result of that will be?

The wealthy members of congress will be able to use shutdowns as a bludgeon to force the working class members to vote in line with them. The wealthy can hold out indefinitely. The working class can only hold out until rent is past-due

Long term, I'd expect to see two other knock-on effects. Working class members of congress will be heavily incentivized to start making very good stock picks to have backup income, or more outright corruption. The second effect would be a chilling effect on working class candidates even running for congress

Does that sound like a positive outcome? Are those the incentives you want in congress?

Train the house and senate to do air traffuc control work.

Upvoted you, but they frequently fly out of smaller/private airports that don't have direct ATC control anyway, so it's unlikely that's a significant contributor to a solution. Though I definitely agree it should be done at whatever scale it can be to improve general conditions.

Thanks for the laugh!

Paying people for work is just that "waste, fraud, and abuse" the Confederates kept babbling about.

If we can't even hold the nation hostage, what's the point of authoritarian control?!

The super rich still won’t be effected enough

Not majorly, but less commerce translates to less money for them because they profit off of all of our legal transactions.

Private planes are still reliant on ATC, especially at out of the way, low traffic airports that will be the first to see cuts

Just in time for the holiday season too.

If they stopped providing services to FL180+ non-part-121 traffic they'd see way more reduction in load than just cancelling a little 121 traffic. Idk if anyone has looked at the unfiltered flight trackers but there are a fuck ton of private/business jets up in the flight levels and they're not flying as predictable of routes (usually into smaller satellite airports near the main ones). They can't do that though because it would upset all the rich people.

The super rich won't be directly affected but their businesses will.

Everything is just so. Fucking. Stupid.

remember he also redirected his wifes flight away from the affected areas during the doge cuts of the atc.

You guys have a middle class?

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