Spyke
lemmy.world

They shouldn't be allowed to vote salary increases for themselves unless they get at least a 70% favorable rating.

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sopuli.xyz

I always thought that their salaries should be determined by something like a multiple of the median salary. Country/State/District, whatever.

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Now that's a fucking great idea. Let's ban legal bribery while we're at it

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sopuli.xyz

In my mind the multiple would go anywhere from 2.0 - 0.8. Of course in my world voters would hold their reps responsible for their votes and corruption, so I'm just whistling in the wind here.

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hglmanreply
lemmy.ml

Eh, less salary means only wealthy ppl can be in congress. What we need is for a lifetime forfeiture of all assets other than those provided by the state. You join congress, you get room and board for life, but nothing else.

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watsonreply
sopuli.xyz

OR, now hear me out, term limits. No more career politicians.

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FireTowerreply
lemmy.world

Political office was intended to be a public service not a profession.

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lemmy.world

That's basically like putting them all in jail, which is not a bad idea, but for totally different reasons

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I say they should be able to, if minimum wage is increased by the same percentage.

Or cap their wages to inflation.

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There's absolutely no reason to have a mirror of the data but faded.

The average person can extrapolate that if 25% of people like something, then roughly 75% of people hate it.

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