Originally Posted by gideongallery

only a democrat would call this a cut

"Last month, the Pentagon sent Congress an interim budget report saying the extra $225 monthly for the two pay categories was costing about $25 million more a month, or $300 million for a full year. In its "appeals package" laying out its requests for cuts in pending congressional spending legislation, Pentagon officials recommended returning to the old, lower rates of special pay and said military experts would study the question of combat pay in coming months. "

it not that their pay was getting cut it was just that they recommended they not get a 50% pay increase (150 to 225).

btw the government did bump it to 175 that year so

this is another example of democrats misrepresenting a pay increase (+25) as a pay cut.

for you guys that don't get it

say playboy cash post in this forum that they are thinking about raising payouts to $60 from $30

They run the number and figuire out they would lose money on that rate and say we can raise it that much but we are going to raise payouts to $40

what you are doing now is equivalent to saying that playboy cut your commission by 50% (20/40) when infact you are getting paid 33% more (10/30)