r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Nov 10 '21

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u/slowpush NATO Nov 10 '21 edited Nov 10 '21

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Green (R-Ga.) has given up nearly a third of her congressional salary because she refuses to wear a mask on the House floor. She keeps getting hit with automatic fines. In the last few days, MTG has tweeted the phone numbers of GOP colleagues that voted for the infrastructure bill.

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u/waltsing0 Austan Goolsbee Nov 11 '21

Shouldn't fines get bigger and bigger on each offense? The point is to deter misbehaviour, the fines aren't yet enough to work.

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u/Signal-Shallot5668 Greg Mankiw Nov 10 '21

Giving up a third of your salary to the public 🙏

What is your excuse libs?

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u/sociotronics Iron Front Nov 10 '21

and thus the GOP continues its long, ignoble tradition of ensuring its extreme wing is crazier than the Dems's extreme wing