Why should congress have all the fun? So the next time they vote themselves a pay raise how about letting the people drawing Social Security or trying to exist on minimum wage share in their joy.
It's not as if we're asking to join them on their golf junkets or asking to ride along on the corporate jets. Just let us expect to improve our living standards to a somewhat lesser extent, although at a proportional rate, than the exalted status that congress has forged for themselves.