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US Congress is a cozy club of multimillionaire boomer lawmakers hoarding power
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 30 Jul 2023
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Or, perhaps more practical to implement, simply outlaw politicians or their immediate families being able to take on any additional sources of income.
No investments outside of retirement 401ks (with those locked into index funds), no "speaking engagements", or book deals, or NFT trading cards, or any of the usual ways that politicians let corporations funnel money there way.
Honestly I'd gladly vote for a law that quadrupled their already stellar benefits packages if those limitations were put into place.
It says a lot about how corrupt and obscenely wealthy our politicians are that even a 500k+ comp package would be pennies compared to what they make via corruption