People think "Congress is terrible so why should we give them a raise?" But that's backwards. If we want to attract and retain highly qualified people to Congress we need to pay them (and their staff) competitive salaries.https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2019/5/3/18311810/congressional-pay-salary-decline-andrew-hall …
JHC! Crazy how simply saying something plainly true on the interweba cuts through with this kind of clarity. People come up with all kinds of bells and whistles instead of tackling the underlying problem: us