Rhode Island legislators get raise
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Rhode Island's part-time lawmakers have gotten an automatic 4.3 percent raise. Without announcement, fanfare or vote, the salaries of rank-and-file lawmakers went from $13,508 to $14,089 annually on July 1. The House Speaker and Senate president get twice that. The promise of automatic increases in keeping with increases in the prior year's consumer price index was part of the same voter-approved 1994 amendment to the state Constitution that eliminated legislative pensions. Last year, the lawmakers got a 3.2 percent raise, and the year before that, a 3.5 percent increase. 
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Time for state government cut backs... and let's start without affecting state programs.
How about an automatic 4.3 percent cut, then a 3.2 percent cut, and then a 3.5 percent cut in self-voted, automatic, legislative salaries?
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