Cenk Uygur
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GOP Rep: 'Bullcrap' That Taxpayers Pay My Salary!
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April 15, 2017
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5:32Now PlayingTelling voters you’re doing them a service and basically they need you more than you need them is a questionable political strategy. Ana Kasparian, John Iadarola, and Michael Shure, hosts of The Young Turks, discuss. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.
"A Republican congressman said at a town hall that it was “bullcrap” that his constituents paid his salary, because he had paid enough federal taxes to have effectively paid his own way.
Rep. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) made that claim, and a similar one about effectively paying for his own health care, in two town hall events, recordings of which were later posted online.
“You said you pay for me to do this,” he said in one recorded exchange, posted online Monday. “Bull crap, I paid for myself. I paid enough taxes before I ever got here and continue to through my company to pay my own salary. This is a service. No one here pays me to do it. I do it as an honor and a service.”
“I’m just saying, this is a service for me, not a career, and I thank God this isn’t how I make a living,” he added upon protest from attendees.
One constituent demanded that Mullin “give up the $178,000 then,” presumably referring to the salary for members of Congress and senators, which is $174,000.
“I have before, I’ve actually paid it back,” Mullin responded.”*
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