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The President of the United States makes $400,000.00 a year.

Tom Compton makes (from all the reports I have been able to gather) $700,000.00 a year.


What's wrong with this picture????????????????????????

Re: How NHRA could survive and really cut costs
 

In other words, as much as The President, your Senator, and your US Rep, combined.

Re: How NHRA could survive and really cut costs
 

This maybe old news but it still relates to this topic.

http://www.dragracingonline.com/analysis/vi_10-tax-1.html

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Great post, it's nice to see real solutions.

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Not yet, but the turf out in what used to be the campground is just as nice.

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Greg,

Great post!

I spent 20 years as a volunteer firefighter in a very small district. It was formed in 1959 and the founding members voted to have 3 elected trustees and their salary was $1.00 per year. Once a month the 3 would come to the firehouse and sign checks and do business. Firefighters were paid to train at $3.50 per week and a maximum of 3 weeks per month. All of this was to encourage input of nearly all monies BACK into the district and the best trained personnel.

Several years before I left a fellow got on as trustee and he spoke to several other trustees from more prominent departments that had more money and he voted the trustees be paid several hundred per month. Once the FF's heard of this, there was a pretty big outrage as to who lays their life on the line and is paid, "how much"? Next month the salaries were reversed and all is still the same in the small town, except the trustee did not get re-elected.

Sometimes outrage and speaking ones mind can change things.

PS, the worst thing was the Government stepped in and wanted to get the taxes of the $3.00 paid to the trustees per year.

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The only improvement I would see to Greg's suggestion is to put the new head office out in the middle of Kansas centrally located to the country. Should be allot cheaper to build there than Indy.
If the powers that be don't want to move they can quit. Only problem with that is they would give them selves big severance packages and break the bank on the way out the door.

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If I understand this correctly,they pay $50,000 per race in bonuses to the Top Fuel,Funny Car,and Pro Stock racers who are in the top ten entering EACH national event.
I don't know if there are any Pro racers to get mad at me on here,but that is the first program that I would eliminate to "save".

$50,000 per race X 24 National Events =$$$$$$$$