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Originally Posted By u/q0_0p At 2025-08-10 08:00:14 PM | Source

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[–] 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.