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Originally Posted by heero_yuy
Quite right. The USA gets by with 435 in the house of representitives, their equivelent to the commons and only 100 in the Senate their second chamber equivelent to the lords. This for a population many times greater than that of the UK.
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Fewer MPs could be paid more individually and remove the second jobs. |
That's because they also have State Assemblies and Senates, being a Federal system - these have their own Senators, Representatives, Governors, etc. For instance, New York State has 62 Senators and 150 Representatives.
This link gives an idea of the number of State elected officials at Representative/Senate level -
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compa...te_governments
Nearly 6000 State Representatives, and nearly 2000 State Senators.
We need to compare like with like.