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