Comments by "Nigel Johnson" (@nigeljohnson9820) on "Shutdown stories - how does the US government partial shutdown affect everyday people? | #TheCube" video.

The us could simply solve this problem by linking the pay of the president and senators to the pay of other government officials. Such is the greed of the republican representative, even thought many are billionaires, I would bet they would be willing to forgo their government pay packets for any reason, even thought they may only represent the small change of their considerable incomes.
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@l9878 yes, I am now aware that Trump does not accept pay beyond the minimum 1$. But given the corruption that exists in US politics he does not need to accept, what to a billionaire is a pittance of only $400,000. I would not be surprised if by gifting it away it become a tax write off. Being a position to set us policy to cut tax for the super rich is worth far more than the few thousands of pay he has declined. The wall is symbolic nonsense. Organised crime will spend far less than ten billion dollars finding a way around it. It will certainly not stop the drug traffickers. Even taking a brute force approach, they will either go over it, under it, or blow it up. In the case of a fence with holes in it, contraband can just be passed through the gaps. If migration is seen as the problem, the simplest and cheapest solution is to remove that attraction that encourages migrants to cross the border.
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