Whether you are a Democrat, Republican, Independent, Libertarian, and other. The Politicians should get payed a lot less then what they are making now. In 2009, the Congressional Politicians where taking in a yearly salary of $174,000. We should pay our Congressional Politicians well but not to much to make it a career out of it. According to the salary of $174,000 about 1/2 is taking from taxes so there take home is about $87,000. After a good 20 years in Congress they become millionaires. Gee I wonder why there is so much corruption on the Republicans and Democrats. Don't get me wrong there are a few politicians that refuse to have a pay-raise. We should pay our politicians but not so they can do a good 20 years and become millionaires after words. They should only make about $75,000-125,000 a year not $174,000. I wonder if politicians would stick around for years if they start out making $125,000 a year then every year they get a reduction of pay. Say for every year that a politician is in office he/she gets a reduction of 10% from his/her first year's pay. They can stay forever but they won't have really any incentive of staying around. That might be a good idea but are the politicians are going to do that probably not. If they did they'll just raise there pay so high it the 10% won't mean anything.
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