[calcowgirl]

I don't care much what they get paid. Cut them the same as you cut state employees.

But therein lies the problem. They AREN'T cutting state employees. They are giving them raises.

Why be a legislator if you can be an environmental analyst and make 30% more?

I want to be represented in the legislature by someone competent, not the bottom of the barrel ego-monger. Drop the salaries below competitive wages and you'll get the latter, while leaving legislators more susceptible to corruption and ceding their responsibilities to an overbearing executive branch and lobbyists.

[paul51]

As long as you base compensation on what someone else is getting, you will have a self perpetuating spiral upwards. That is why the system is designed that way. So bureaucrats can justify ever increasing ridiculous levels of compensation. They've rigged the system. Once we get back to compensating people based on what they contribute, we will begin to see some sanity.

[Publius6961]

I want to be represented in the legislature by someone competent, not the bottom of the barrel ego-monger. Drop the salaries below competitive wages and you'll get the latter, while leaving legislators more susceptible to corruption and ceding their responsibilities to an overbearing executive branch and lobbyists.

Sorry, I ain't buying that.
If that argument were rational, we would be producing the most efficient cars in the world at the lowest price. How is that working out?

And then the obvious... how about the financial giants who are no longer with us whose executives made tens of million annually? How did that work out?

Lets not get silly here.

[nufsed]

I want them all cut.