Thomas Sowell: Cheap Pay, Lousy Politicians

Thomas Sowell: Cheap Pay, Lousy Politicians

I don't make a million dollars a year but I think every member of Congress should be paid at least that much. It's not because those turkeys in Washington deserve it. It's because we deserve a lot better people than we have in Congress.

The cost of paying every member of Congress $1 million a year is trivial compared to the vast amounts of taxpayers' money wasted by cheap politicians doing things to get themselves re-elected. You could pay every Congressman $1 million a year for a century for less than it costs to run the Department of Agriculture for one year.