12-22-2008, 03:25 AM
Its expensive to live in DC and most of them also must maintain a residence in their home state. Which is worse, paying them enough to make that possible or giving them another reason to be receptive to all the filthy lucre floating around them?
$160K is not an enormous amount of money for someone at the top of our governmental bureaucracy. Most if not all have given up much higher incomes to take the job in government. You'd want them to be responsible to the average citizen, but they constantly rub elbows with people in the private sector that make exponentially higher salaries. Their pay is a minuscule part of the federal budget. I'd be in favor of paying them what they think they need then holding them to higher standards.
$160K is not an enormous amount of money for someone at the top of our governmental bureaucracy. Most if not all have given up much higher incomes to take the job in government. You'd want them to be responsible to the average citizen, but they constantly rub elbows with people in the private sector that make exponentially higher salaries. Their pay is a minuscule part of the federal budget. I'd be in favor of paying them what they think they need then holding them to higher standards.