salary of a highly paid salary worker. I can't find any empirical evidence that it gets us better representation, and it helps reinforce an elite ruling class. There's some reading about that in old union stories, with much lower paid union negotiators doing quite well against highly paid corporate executives, as if they had skin in the game. As if they weren't talking to donors to their campaign, but to people whose fraud, theft, finks and spies had decimated and visited great tragedy on their brothers and sisters in their own country. For profit.
We would save more than just money. An added bonus is that they then get to feel "like" the people they represent, not "for". That can't hurt.
Again, not as a cost saving measure, but we could move Congress and the Administrations into portable buildings, the White House on wheels. We roll it to the area of greatest unemployment, or maybe kid shootings, whatever we want to solve.
I would bet whatever the problem is gets handled a lot faster if they have to live with the people who face it every day. Maybe look at their foreclosed homes while paying the wealthy $40 billion a month to save them from losses in mortgage-backed assets, or giving zero cost loans to banks to market government-guaranteed debt at high interest rates to the working poor, or students who can't get jobs.
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