"Jacking up the pay"...and limiting them to a single term.
It is not enough to term limit the actual politician although that must be done.
Much of the damage is done by the permanent staff pukes who actually run the politician.
They schedule, suggest, whisper, format summaries, meet to decide meetings between their respective politicians and it goes on and on.
Term limits must be there too. It is something that a staffer knows who to call.
Frankly too many of the actual politicians are entirely too dumb for the job. You can know this by observing them talk without a teleprompter.
Sometimes just listening to them try to express a position on a topic reveals their inability to do perform rational or critical thinking. These people depend on their staff to tell them what to think.