Congresspeople make $174k/year plus benefits. Which is a lot in most of the country, but doesn't go very far in DC. Agree with your point -- the better we pay politicians, the less beholden they are to lobbyists & bribery.
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Don't want people getting into politics for money either way, whether it be lobbyists and bribes or ridiculously high taxpayer-funded salaries.
Would you say 'we don't want people getting into medicine or law for the money'?
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No, those are professions. I don't believe the founders envisioned politics to become a full-time profession per se.
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