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Congressional members (House and Senate) earn $174k/year, which is rather less than leadership of comparable scope is paid in private industry. Of course, havi
by dweekly 5y ago
Congressional members (House and Senate) earn $174k/year, which is rather less than leadership of comparable scope is paid in private industry.
Of course, having powerful people who control trillions of spending be not be very well paid themselves above the table has...myriad exciting ways to go wrong.
As a taxpayer I'd rather government leadership paid extremely well and heavily fund GSA audits to ensure strong oversight (and jail time) for those that abuse the position. Fun fact: GSA saves taxpayers $10 for every $1 spent.
- omginternets 5y agoYou forgot to factor in all the benefits and "perks", not the least of which is insider trading.
- ethbr0 5y agoInsider trading is probably the least perk, if one wanted to abuse their government authority and access. There are myriad ways to go much bigger with corruption.
- throwaway0a5e 5y agoInsider trading is a perfectly legal perk to them. Corruption isn't.
- wpasc 5y agoI'd bet the insider trading pales greatly in comparison to hiring ex-congresspeople for their access and contact sheet
- chrisseaton 5y agoAre member of congress leaders? Which people do they lead? They have teams of assistants but they're not huge teams. They seem more like individual contributors.