You’re moving the wrong direction unless you enjoy authoritarian government.

Yes. By the way, I’m gay.

I’ll be in Mexico. Enjoy.

That’s a start. I could get down with that. And it would weed out some of the more casual and propagandized votes. You got my vote.

How do you propose that we prevent already rich and powerful people from just collecting an extra 100K just for the hell of it? After all, a huge amount of your probability of winning a local election depends upon your ability to fund your candidacy, which is how we ended up with the oligarchical political class that we have.

Ok. So the solution is high salaries for those who are used to stretching a dollar? They would never make any decisions to personally enrich themselves at the expense of their constituents.

Anyway, I think you can see that there isn’t a solution. We have pitifully few examples of people in government serving because it’s their civic duty. It just gets overlooked because people are on teams and they want their political team to win.

Oh because incentivizing poor people who need 28k to make divisions about running our lives is such a good idea? You know because broke people are sooooo good at operating successful businesses.

Whatever. I don’t care. I would prefer we don’t have anyone who’s job it is to sit around and dream up new ways to control our lives. The problem with these stupid jobs isn’t even the salary. It’s the back door deals, the fact that these positions attracts megalomaniacs, the board positions and industry jobs that are likely guaranteed once they push favorable legislation for their corporate buddies.

The whole thing is a scam. I don’t care if they get paid.

Good. They deserve less. Should be volunteer.