Political Picture thread. (humor/memes/etc)

tirwin1 · Apr 30, 2025

prambo said:
THEY'RE ALL FUCKING CROOKS

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I am very dubious about these posts. Congressional salaries are public information. Net worth is not. In fact it is difficult to get since that implies access to alot more financial data. I don't know where the people that create these memes get their information from.

tirwin1 · Apr 30, 2025

Share with all your liberal friends and family.

Vantrepes · Apr 30, 2025

tirwin1 said:
I am very dubious about these posts. Congressional salaries are public information. Net worth is not. In fact it is difficult to get since that implies access to alot more financial data. I don't know where the people that create these memes get their information from.

They are required by law to report it themselves:

Members of Congress, candidates for federal office, senior congressional staff, nominees for executive branch positions, Cabinet members, the president and vice president and Supreme Court justices are required by the Ethics in Government Act of 1978 to file annual reports disclosing their personal finances. Compliance and enforcement of this requirement is overseen by the congressional ethics committees, the ethics offices of government agencies and, in the case of executive branch officials, the U.S. Office of Government Ethics.

Source: https://www.opensecrets.org/personal-finances/disclosure

Total net worth is reported in a range, X to Y, I think, and that is made public, but a lot of it is only seen by their buddies on the Un-Ethics Committee.