Really need some term limits and total service years.
Pick your numbers, something but like
6 for congress, 4 for Governor, 20 max in public office.
Also their salary is based on their represented area. For a Congress representative, the national average is their base pay. If the area they represent is below average, a 30% of the difference is deducted. If it’s above average, 30% of the difference is added.
After 1 year, the percentage increases by 10 every year you’re in office.
So by year 6 if your doing a shit job your pay will be -90% the difference. If the national average is 50k, and your area is at 20k, the difference is 30k, 90% of that is 27K, so your salary is 50k-27k, which is 23K.
I’ll do you one further - their pay is no more than 3x the minimum unemployment benefit. This means maximum 3x the minimum wage, minus whatever unemployment doesn’t normally pay out.
(Federal for federal congress and executives, state for state congress and governors, etc.).
Their healthcare plan must be basic medicare (or their district’s minimum socially provided healthcare plan, if it covers more and they are not federal)
They must divulge past 5 years of tax returns to be on the ballot, and divest all stocks and blind-trust all assets to take office. Failure to do so defaults ownership of the illegally held asset(s) to the Treasury. No statute of limitations.
Merge medicaid into medicare and provide it universally for free, and wow, a whole lot of problems disappear like magic. It’s a pipe dream, and still nowhere near enough to fix everything, but the transformation would be dramatic.
If their lives genuinely, directly depended on the quality of the social safety net, and their healthcare was no better than the minimum provided to everyone, a lot of “impossible” and “unaffordable” initiatives would get passed overnight.
Really need some term limits and total service years. Pick your numbers, something but like 6 for congress, 4 for Governor, 20 max in public office.
Also their salary is based on their represented area. For a Congress representative, the national average is their base pay. If the area they represent is below average, a 30% of the difference is deducted. If it’s above average, 30% of the difference is added.
After 1 year, the percentage increases by 10 every year you’re in office.
So by year 6 if your doing a shit job your pay will be -90% the difference. If the national average is 50k, and your area is at 20k, the difference is 30k, 90% of that is 27K, so your salary is 50k-27k, which is 23K.
I’ll do you one further - their pay is no more than 3x the minimum unemployment benefit. This means maximum 3x the minimum wage, minus whatever unemployment doesn’t normally pay out.
(Federal for federal congress and executives, state for state congress and governors, etc.).
Their healthcare plan must be basic medicare (or their district’s minimum socially provided healthcare plan, if it covers more and they are not federal)
They must divulge past 5 years of tax returns to be on the ballot, and divest all stocks and blind-trust all assets to take office. Failure to do so defaults ownership of the illegally held asset(s) to the Treasury. No statute of limitations.
Merge medicaid into medicare and provide it universally for free, and wow, a whole lot of problems disappear like magic. It’s a pipe dream, and still nowhere near enough to fix everything, but the transformation would be dramatic.
If their lives genuinely, directly depended on the quality of the social safety net, and their healthcare was no better than the minimum provided to everyone, a lot of “impossible” and “unaffordable” initiatives would get passed overnight.