Comment on Make Congress Earn Average American Wage.
Lemminary@lemmy.world 19 hours agoIf you pay them less, they are actually going to be more easily bribed.
If you keep the same people in office, then yeah. I wonder who else would be up for the job if the pay was lower. Hopefully more Mamdanis.
impairedimperator@lemmy.zip 19 hours ago
Nah, it’ll be independently wealthy trust fund kids that don’t need to rely on a paycheck to pay rent.
Politicians should be some of the highest paid people in the country. I wouldn’t get out of bed for 70k today, that was my paycheck for my first professional job. Now perhaps you don’t want me as a politician, but…