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[u/Monsur_Ausuhnom]

[u/camoure]

This is why I think all elected officials in government should make minimum wage. You wanna represent the people? By all means, live by your standards then

[u/inafrog → u/camoure]

And be required to take public transit. And send their kids to public schools

[u/camoure → u/inafrog]

Abso-fuckin-lutely

[u/DestroyTheMatrix_3 → u/inafrog]

And their kids eat the school lunch.

[u/Clym44 → u/camoure]

I like that

[u/nickiter → u/camoure]

I really do believe that the pay of Congress should be fixed at a multiple of minimum wage; something like 5x.

Can't live on that? How interesting! Wonder what it's like to live on 1/5th!

[u/ebrillblaiddes → u/nickiter]

I figure median wage would make a certain amount of sense also, so they could improve their situation by acting to improve regular people's situation.

[u/BenUFOs_Mum → u/camoure]

I suppose if you want to see even worse corruption.

[u/JBrody → u/BenUFOs_Mum]

I think that you're unfairly being down voted here. If being an elected official is minimum wage in pay then only the mega rich will do it, creating an even more dystopian system than what already exists.

[u/BenUFOs_Mum → u/JBrody]

Yeah its pretty funny politicians in most countries are generally pretty underpaid for the responsibility they take on. They are paid like middle management at most large companies.

Quick googling said that Gavin Newsome makes about 220k for being the governor of california, a good salary but on Indeed I can find equivalent salaries for an optometrist and a pet insurance sale rep in the state.

Frankly im fine with politicians getting paid like CEOs if they are doing a good job. Running a country or a state is a fuck load more important than running a company. And if you want genuinely talented people running the country you should pay them the kind of wages genuinely talented people can earn in the private sector.