Build a dormitory.
Don't political contributions take almost all day to day expenses and then some?
I've said this many, many times. House them all in the same building. Force them to interact with each other. It can be a nice apartment complex with a gym, green spaces, an upscale cafeteria, and larger units for members with kids, but put them all under one roof. Make it like work, and less of a lifetime appointment.
That’s counter productive. Pay them a wage commensurate with responsibilities. Ban stock trading. Hold them accountable.
How about 300k and an absolute ban on outside income that wasn’t generated by a blind trust. Any other income must be donated to charity.
The D's would be running a train on MTG and Boebert every night...
Make them all take a standardized civics, law and governmental procedures test. The highest grading 3rd make 300k, middle third 200K and bottom feeders 100k. Retake the test every 2 years. Make the test scores public...
...along with the janitor, night watchman, pizza delivery guy...
I also like the idea of bonuses for performance, but not how sure to measure that. They’d just pass meaningless bills to get paid.
Maybe actually do some work. They government runs out of money in a few days and they just went on a vacation for 3 weeks.
Restrict them to indexed mutual funds, which would incentivize them to build a board economy vs. graft and corruption...
If we eliminated honest graft I’d agree with you.
That would be ideal but there are always ways for them to get extra paydays that the average middle income person could only dream of while doing their job. Also who decides the “charity?”
If I screamed at my coworkers, gave speeches in gas masks, showed dick pix during meetings, and played around on my phone most of the day I would expect to get canned instantly. Somehow Congress thinks this is ok.
I work in a plastic factory in small town Iowa. People get away with all of that minus the dick pics. I’m sure some of that has gone on too I just don’t hear about it.
