It has been a while since I have commented on the structure of our government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Most, if not all, members of the New Jersey State Legislature have other employment, some private and some public. A few still hold elected office. I believe that employment beyond the Legislature carries with it too much conflict of interest. I would prefer that legislators should be subject to the same limits on outside employment as full-time State judges. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I know that the idea is that public-spirited men and women will dedicate a part of their time to legislative duties but spend most of it as part of the governed. Nice idea, and maybe once true, but government has become too all-pervading.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As we are expecting more time from legislators, and prohibiting external income, their legislative pay will have to be increased. Still, I do not expect the increase to make up for the total amount of outside income they will have to forego. It is a sacrifice they must be willing to make if they want to hold public office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Of course, I expect the legislators to earn the extra pay. For reasons I have previously expressed<\/a>, most, if not all, regulatory authority should be taken back from administrative agencies in the executive branch. The Legislature should make the laws.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Jay Bohn<\/p>\n\n\n\n June 29, 2023<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It has been a while since I have commented on the structure of our government. Most, if not all, members of the New Jersey State Legislature have other employment, some private and some public. A few still hold elected office. I believe that employment beyond the Legislature carries with it too much conflict of interest. … Continue reading “The State Legislature Should Be Full-Time”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bohn.org\/wpmocha\/peanutgallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bohn.org\/wpmocha\/peanutgallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bohn.org\/wpmocha\/peanutgallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bohn.org\/wpmocha\/peanutgallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bohn.org\/wpmocha\/peanutgallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1231"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/bohn.org\/wpmocha\/peanutgallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1235,"href":"https:\/\/bohn.org\/wpmocha\/peanutgallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1231\/revisions\/1235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bohn.org\/wpmocha\/peanutgallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bohn.org\/wpmocha\/peanutgallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bohn.org\/wpmocha\/peanutgallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}