Michael Tae SweeneyPaying MPs a salary was a major demand of the Labour Party in 19th century Britain for exactly this reason. Reactionaries had long-ago figured out that restricting Parliament to only those who are independently wealthy (or in hoc to them) made it easier to control power.
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