OK. One last comment on this (for now)... IF the House expands to 6000 members and the Electoral College is burned at the stake, as it should have been, how does this impact the Framers original idea that "politician" was a part-time job? Right now, each of these people is paid a ridiculously large sum of money for their "service". Over $100k/year. How much of a hit to the State budget will it be? Especially in populous states like CA and NY? And, if there are more Representatives, and each of them serves on fewer committees, and they vote primarily electronically (as the article surmises), then do we return to the general idea of "part-time politicians"? Because that sounds pretty dang good to me...
Salary, House of Representatives: $174,000 Population of WA state: 7,615,000 WA congressional delegation: 10 representatives, 2 senators, $2,088,000 salary WA congressional delegation, 1 representative per 30,000 constituents: 254 representatives, 2 senators, $44,800,000 salary Dome cleaning and masonry repair: $3.4m SR99 tunnel: $2B UW Computer Science: $110m WA state budget: $53B UW Football head coach salary: $3M Additional salary expenses per resident: $4.87
Right? Fargo would get five reps. Bozeman would get two. Flagstaff would get three but the fuckin' Navajo Nation would get six. Greater LA would get 626 so it's not like this a massive win for the red states but fuckin' hell right now Bozeman's got one and greater LA has 18. Here's Bozeman's one so fuck Bozeman.
Fuck Bozeman except for the world class ice climbing which drives a season worth of their economy.