With all due respect to Thomas Sewell, whom I like a lot, I truly do not believe that paying politicians more would get us better ones.
What drives these guys is not money, but power. Most of them are already wealthy before they get elected.
What I would be in favor of would be to have them work less - a lot less...
>>>"What I would be in favor of would be to have them work less - a lot less..."<<<
Or work very hard to make what they do = less and less
TT quote "For every new Law, 7 should have to be repealed, in 20 or 30 years we may notice a difference"
TT
Apt statement. Many pols, especially senators, simply look on their position as a another jewel in their glittering careers and opinions of themselves. For many of them it's just a big ego trip. Who has more money than Kennedy, and look at the damage he's done to the country? I would say that power is more of an incentive than money for all the Donkey evildoers now in congress.
What drives these guys is not money, but power. Most of them are already wealthy before they get elected.
Fact is all of them are OWNED that is why nothing gets done.
IMHO, all too often they are career politicians who have been totally corrupted by the system. How many times in recent elections have you had to settle for the lesser of two evils?
On the one hand, I can understand how easy it would be to become corrupted when you have stacks of $100 bills blowing in your office door on a daily basis from lobbiests. On the other hand a little forced integrity might be the answer.
I say bring back the stocks and let public humiliation be the punishment for public deception. In severe cases, a good tar and feathering would probably be in order.
The problem is the political elite have managed to put themselves above the law, even in local politics. Add to that an apathetic society and the result is what we have now.
You're right, of course.
The obvious first step is term limits, but they have decided that term limits are unconstitutional.
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