Make politicians wages the median wage of frontline workers

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IveKnownItAll@reddit

Ignoring everything else, define "Frontline worker"

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Its this kind of wooly thinking that makes corruption inevitable. What needs to happen is extremely HIGH wages for politicians, but with excellent oversight and standards and right of recall by the people. Fail your people, lose your job, serve your people, reap the rewards.

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JackSwit@reddit

Well they are still corrupt so at least we would save some tax money

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Secret-Put-4525@reddit

The turn over would be insane. Like a minimum wage job.

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LinusOrri@reddit (OP)

Do you have examples of this working?

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scouserman3521@reddit

Singapore

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Megalocerus@reddit

My understanding is that Roman consuls then went into the provinces and extracted as much as possible from the province, sometimes also benefiting their patron.

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Hiredgun77@reddit

If you did that then only rich people who don’t care about salary would run for office.

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Xylus1985@reddit

If you think politicians make most of their money through wages you would be very wrong. You can make them pay a fee for their time in office and they will still walk away richer than a fat cat caught in a fish bucket

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Average_Justin@reddit

This. Keeping 2 residents in separate states eat away at their salary. They make money via other methods

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Jawyp@reddit

Awful idea. Why would a highly-skilled professional take a massive pay cut to become a politician? This would further turn holding public office into an activity for the retired & wealthy instead.

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Primary-Signal-3692@reddit

Then all your politicians would be people with family wealth

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Senior_Mongoose5920@reddit

Standard Salary or augmented by lobbyist salary?

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SentenceAwkward5302@reddit

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seajayacas@reddit

They make enough from.insider trading that they don't worry about their Congressional salary

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Cefer_Hiron@reddit

It will be more effective if they (and they family) are obligated to use only public services in health, education and security

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ben_bliksem@reddit

Then the types of people with the skills to run a country will go to the private sector.

How about we rather give them a highish salary but tie yearly increases to the worst inflation experienced by either low income, middle income or high income segments.

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Cefer_Hiron@reddit

They go already

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mattymattymatty96@reddit

the skills to run a country

That most of the time is staff already on payroll our politicians rarely have any idea

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