[Tupelo]

Why? Another easy answer. one or more of the following reasons.
1: Poor self sacrificing public servants.
2: Poor elected self sacrificing public servants.
3: Poor over paid, self aggrandizing self sacrificing public officials.
4: all of the above.

[PENANCE]

I recommend reading Ben Franklin’s “Opposition to Executive Salaries” found in The Anti-Federalist Papers. While reading it, I suggest replacing the term “Salary” with “financial gain apart from salaries”.

I think that we should push for Constititutional Ammendments along the following lines:

a complete ban on the purchase or sale of ANY assets by legislators and their immediate family during their (term limited) period of service and for a period of years afterward;

an ineligibilty to hold any other public office or appointment for a period of years after their term;

the placing of any non-material assets in escrow during their period of service;

a full audit of their taxes each and every year they’re in office and for a period of years afterward;

and so on.