I hope you read the article. Most who were interviewed or gave a quote were supportive of the idea.
Does that make them fringe?
I did read the article and what they support is not spending a lot of time in Washington, not the cut in pay.
The issue with the cut in pay is that, it can make people more vulnerable to corruption.
That isn’t to say that congressmen are under paid.
So now you want us to believe congress critters? Yea, right. That will go over like a fart in a diving bell.
Right now I believe four of the Republicans, the four that voted against that awful “balanced on our backs” budget amendment. They stripped out all of the points like cap and balance that would have kept them from just raising taxes to cover their spending. It was tailor made for the Democrats and they were not smart enough to have taken it. Thank God most of them only read the title before voting for it.