Clearly we can't pay lawmakers $0 and expert high effort + no corruption.
is there any proof of any way that saying pay from 170k a year to ??? 1 million USD? a year would have any impact on the problems?
Do countries with less corrupt lawmakers pay more than the US? I doubt that...
If lobbying is legal, than bribes should be too.
I'd chip into the "Pay Manchin a ransom of $50M to not do $50T of damage to the planet" fund.
Also selling your vote. Then we can at least choose the pol who sends the biggest check.
Certainly that's not solely due to how they are paid, but I'm sure it factors in.
3 of that is a rounding error from what our reps are currently paid.
Not sure what that argument is going?
No, it's not. Median household income is about $67k. Median salary (or, at least “median annual earnings for workers who worked full time”) is about $56k.
This assumes ones level of corruption has to do with income. Is that true or are there other factors?