He’s not alone: AOC and others have argued lawmakers should be paid more in order to protect against corruption and make the job more accessible.
He’s not alone: AOC and others have argued lawmakers should be paid more in order to protect against corruption and make the job more accessible.
What about the rest of us, who manage to scrape by on 60K or less after y’all have already taxed away a third of it? Where’s our relief you whiny shit? 💩
It’s about the market I’m afraid - someone with the attributes necessary to be an effective politician is likely to be able to use those skills to get a top management job in a big company and earn > 200k easily. If the gap between that and the politicians salary is too great then the only people who become politicians will have other strong other motives, which may be noble, but are often narcissistic or corrupt.
We run into the same issue with university professors. Especially with studies like economics, engineering or IT.
University professors don’t dictate national policy.
That’s not what they implied… And heck, they are the ones who teach the people who will eventually dictate national policies!
Seeing what supposedly educated politicians are saying, I have a doubt they attended a single class.
Bold of you to assume politicians are getting STEM degrees. Most don’t even understand the basics of computer networking.
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We run into the same issue with university professors. Especially with studies like economics, engineering or IT.Now let’s simply it for you:
It's an issue with ALL professors and especially the ones in economics, engineering and IT.What’s funny is that there’s plenty of politicians that study economics so that’s one field out of three that were mentioned, and the vast majority of politicians go to university so that’s covered in the first part.
To be fair, they do typically need staff that are paid by themselves. They need a residence in DC and their home state too.
Build them dormitories in DC.
Let them live in their cars like Americans, then.
Not legally possible afaik
Edit: I’m wrong, thank you to Knightfox for providing context as to why exactly I am.
The staff aren’t paid out of the members’ pockets. They have a budget for running their offices.
Agree with your point, but man I didn’t realize 60k was considered “scraping by” now