[Bernard]

An even larger majority, 73.9 percent, approved the proposition limiting elected officials' salaries when there is a deficit.

Even better, elected officils should be paid at all after 2 or 3 terms in the same office. Let's see how much their desire to serve the public holds up when they have to rely on the kindness of strangers in order to buy groceries.

[Travis T. OJustice]

Even better, elected officils should be paid at all after 2 or 3 terms in the same office. Let's see how much their desire to serve the public holds up when they have to rely on the kindness of strangers in order to buy groceries.

That already happens, what with lobbyists money and all. Their salary typically isn't what they live off of, there is already family money, or like John Edwards, ill-gotten money from cushy lawyer jobs where they can afford to go live high on the hog with a paltry 180,000 a year for a term or two.

[Luke21]

If they get elected they get a pension. We need to cut that too.