[crusher2013]

You’re right it was originally 30K.

I only suggested 250K as a discussion, don’t know what the best number is. But I do know that its too many now.

Pay them a modest salary w/a max of 2-3 staff members. If caught selling their vote, Treason.

[Jacquerie]

Even at 30,000 the Anti-Federalists thought it too many people per rep.

Reps were supposed to be as familiar to their constituents as the guy down the street, the prominent businessman in the local community with whom everyone was at least acquainted.

What we have now certainly isn't representation.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

I only suggested 250K as a discussion, don’t know what the best number is. But I do know that its too many now.

Pay them a modest salary w/a max of 2-3 staff members. If caught selling their vote, Treason.

Thomas Sowell makes the point that adequately competent congressmen - qualified candidates for which are actually “legion” in a Congressional District containing over half a million people - would easily be worth a million dollars a year to the taxpayer. And that one reason we don’t have adequately competent congressmen is that we don’t pay them enough to take time out of their professions to take the job. So we get hacks who want to make a career out of politics. IMHO we should:

• pay really well for a term or two, or three,

• establish term limits, and

• abolish pensions.