Deciding the president by popular vote is a flawed idea
Not if it’s an informed electorate, with skin in the game. If we all paid 10-20% (and I mean ALL) there woudn’t be the farting around with the money, three years without a budget and no accountability. Make it enough to make people pay attention. Half of them don’t care now because the other half of us dumbbells are paying the freight.
And NEVER allow government average wage be higher than private sector. NEVER, ever.
“And NEVER allow government average wage be higher than private sector. NEVER, ever.”
That shouldn’t be hard. The number of lower skilled thus lower paid folks in government service is not in proportion to the number of that kind of folks in the private sector, at least for the Federal Government.
Make sure the government has the same proportion of lower skilled thus lower paid folks as the private sector and the average wage will fall right into line.