@af2 @sickburnbro There's the thought that if they were paid, say $2 million a year that it would even attract some of the people who use congress as their sock puppets to run, and it'd be nice if it might cut down on corruption too. A congresscritter banking $2M is, probably, less likely to care about all the low-level graft that they're into now (part of the criticism of the regime legislature isn't just the corruption, but the fact that they can be bought for so little).

Now, would highly compensated congresscritters be more likely to care about the plight of their constituents? I'm going to have to put a big "doubt" on that one.