I like the idea Glenn Beck put out on his show yesterday:
The average military salary is $22,000.00 therefore no elected official should be paid more than the people who put their lives on the line for the country. After all public service should not be a career. A second effect would be that this would end the need for term limits since nobody would want to make a career out of this.
The average citizens salary is $50,000.00 therefore no government employee should be paid more than the people they are working for. In addition government pensions benefits and medical care should be the same as their private sector counterparts.
He gave the example of Charlie Rangel. Rangel served a distinguished career in the army. He went into congress 50 years ago with no real net worth. Now he's a multi-millionaire. It's obscene that this can happen.
Yeah, I want an air traffic controller that is paid the same as a lead manager at McDonald's.