listening to this as usual with such hearings overall my occasional residual respect for elected representatives is the greatest casualty what a fucking joke of a chamberhttps://twitter.com/tszzl/status/1288529863352213505 …
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Agree on the staffs, not sure about the salaries. Here's an interesting paper suggesting that decreasing salaries for some EU politicians increased the quality of the legislators: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jeea.12141 … Short web article version: https://review.chicagobooth.edu/magazine/winter-2013/if-you-want-better-politicians-pay-them-less …
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MEP salaries are so low I'm not sure this even gets into the relevant zone of 'get what you pay for' in a positive sense
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€144,084 in 2009 (the former salary of Italian MEPs) doesn't strike me as low! That's about $190,000 (in 2020 US dollars). What kind of salaries did you have in mind?
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I don't really think of it like that, just on consequentialist grounds Maybe where I'm skeptical is that we'd end up with better government on the margin if we paid Congress more Possibly we'd do better if we paid them less, or even zero or negative amounts Hard to say
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I think of it in consequentialist terms, too. It does strike me that having too-small or zero salaries would be Bad insofar as it prevents anyone who isn't independently wealthy from doing the job. My intuition is that you don't want 100 percent of legislators to be upper-class.
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Agree to disagree 
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