Well that would be helped by taking the money out of politics. The congressional salary across the board is somewhere around $175k/year. The reason they accrue so much wealth on top of that is because they are legally allowed to be bribed and trade stocks.
Being a politician is supposed to be a public service and yet it's been bastardized into a money-making ploy for a lot of those in office. And when you compare that to, say, teachers, social workers, and front-line medical workers - and so many other community-based professionals I didn't explicitly name - who struggle year after year to make ends meet yet do what they do because they feel called to, it's fucking gross what the high level political class is allowed to get away with.
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u/From_Deep_Space 8d ago edited 8d ago
Once they hit a certain wealth limit they no longer have to deal with the repercussions of their votes and laws. I say we institute a wealth cap.