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| Corruption by Leslie Garvey / POGO |
I've been thinking we need a better way to pay our Congress Critters. One idea I had was to raise their salary to something that would reflect their responsibility, like the way the heads of large corporations are paid. Since then I've had a couple more ideas.
One is that Congress Critter's pay should reflect how much tax people are paying and how much money the Federal government is borrowing. Lower taxes mean Congress Critters get paid more. Reducing the Federal debt would also result in a bonus. I have no idea how you might calculate that.
The other idea is that Congress Critters should be paid by the states they represent. Each congressional district would be responsible for paying their representative, and the state government would be responsible for paying Senators.
Not to worry though, nothing is going to change our current arrangement, especially not some post from a deranged conspiracy theorist. Our country is on a slippery slope. Everyone on the inside is scrambling as fast as they can to keep from sliding any farther down the slope and if their scrambling is sending other people into the abyss, well, that's just too bad.
P. S. I thought I put up the linked post last month. Turns out it was six months ago.
Putting the brakes on insider trading is an excellent. They could do a lot to stop it but there will be workarounds like Senator Bubble has a distant cousin, Frat bro from college, or Mistress, to handle the stock market.
ReplyDeleteThe other thing would be require disclosure where every penny of campaign money comes from. No PACs, no corporations-are-people bullshit, every penny coming in and going out.
Follow the money.
xoxoxoBruce