Take your time deliberating.
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Holy mackerel! A Republican actually doing what the party talks about, that's a miracle. Can he run for President?
Unpopular opinion, but American politicians are pay extremely low.
It's stupidly low. It opens our government up to being bought very easily.
As someone who has casually considered running for office in South Carolina (because our local representative is an incompetent buffoon, and while I don't consider myself qualified to run, I know I could do a better job), I kinda agree. If you want your representatives to be normal people, and understand what reality is like, then you really need to pay them at least a somewhat liveable wage, because as it stands, the only people who can afford to do the job are those who are basically independently wealthy, own a car dealership or some other business that basically runs itself, or are retired. I'm not saying politicians should be making boatloads of money. But their pay should also be a liveable wage for the area they represent.
People downvoting because they don’t how realise how the politicians got so rich.
Do you have any comparative data on their salaries vs other countries?
They shouldn't have to hustle around trying to secure funding for re-election campaigns. Incumbents and new candidates should be given a budget by the government. Campaign donations shouldn't be allowed at all. Third party campaigning shouldn't be allowed. IDK where the line is that protects freedom of speech while prohibiting third party campaigning but there needs to be one.
The line shouldn't be "no third parties". I think it should be closer to "recieve x% of the votes in the last election or y number of signatures and recieve $z for use on your campaign".
This would weed out people from starting a campaign just for the money while allowing third parties to have an even-ish playing field at least in this regard.
When I say third party campaigning i mean campaigning done by an outside group, that's not affiliated with the candidate's official campaign.
I'm not referring to candidate eligibility
And judging by how effective they are, they are overpaid.
They are. As weird as that is to say. It very much contributes, though I would not say causes, the massive unprecedented levels of corruption we see today.
Cuba pays their politicians very low, and expects them to make money doing a regular job, to discourage corruption, and keep politicians in touch with their constituency's needs.
Cuba dosen't have a private sector trying to manipulate government officials to change policy in their favor.
I wonder why? 🤔