How Our Representatives Get Rich

The reader who submitted the idea at left writes: Let’s go back to this!

My response:

It isn’t a bad idea, but it’s a fairly inconsequential one.  Our representatives’ (legal) compensation structure is nothing compared to what they take home thanks to raw corruption: bribery, insider trading, and accepting massive campaign contributions from obscenely wealthy donors in exchange for favorable legislation.

All this creates huge incentive to hold onto those seats, which, in today’s climate means going along with Trump and his lunatic criminality.