You realize that’s the argument they made about Trump, right? “Having no money encourages corruption.” But Trump has money, so he’s less likely to be corrupt.

[–] Drusas@fedia.io 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That is not directly related to what I was saying, no. I did not imply that people with money won't be corrupt.

[–] yeahiknow3@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Keeping congressional salaries that low would encourage corruption

All available evidence indicates that corruption is independent of salary (or wealth) and needs to be addressed separately.

The stock-trading ban and the low salary address the different issue of venal candidates. We need to do everything possible to keep money-grubbers out of the halls of Congress and in the private sector where the damage these creatures do can be contained.