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Move the Overton Window (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Sure, but you don't want to make things even worse.

High salary (and as lawmaker you have a fairly high degree of responsibility so I think it's fair) + very tight rules on accepting any kind of money, services, favours, etc... seems to work best.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Well if we're talking about shit that will never pass... Then we should ban most instances of lawmakers who have business interests, ban working as a lobbyist, ban insider trading.

Then we could make their salary a multiple of the median wage of whatever district or state they represent.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

and tie their retirement to social security instead of a separate fund.