Salary caps do nothing to prevent an elected official from accepting deals on the side, and it can be impossible to incriminate the bad actors. Will the salary

Salary caps do nothing to prevent an elected official from accepting deals on the side, and it can be impossible to incriminate the bad actors. Will the salary cap prevent a congressman’s daughter from accepting a lucrative job offer? Will his wife’s law firm have to turn away new clients? Will his non-profit have to turn away donations? Any system that could prevent personal enrichment of elected officials would require every freedom be taken away from them. You’d have to imprison them (and anyone who could proxy wealth for them) as soon as they take office and for decades after if you want to be sure that they were not motivated by self interest.