> Do you also advocate putting a little pot of cash ... Yes, obviously I would support that /s The idea of increasing pay for members of Congress is that we n

> Do you also advocate putting a little pot of cash ... Yes, obviously I would support that /s The idea of increasing pay for members of Congress is that we naturally discourage seeking out other forms of building wealth and/or paying bills while in office regardless of existing laws. You can also have laws that explicitly stop things like insider trading too, but obviously you can't solve for every scenario so this would be a blanket solution. I understand that corruption can't be solved by this one action and that members can still be corrupt after a pay increase, but on the whole, I think it'd be a positive change. It's a hard problem to solve without burning everything down... which only sounds good in theory and may not result in a better system.