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Matthew Yglesias
@mattyglesias
The congressional pay cap also caps the salary of cabinet secretaries and other senior civil servants. Federal bureaucracy could probably use fewer, but better-paid people alongside higher pay for members of congress and their staff.
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Blake Scholl 🛫
@bscholl
Unpopular opinion: politicians and senior officials should be paid dramatically more. Congresspeople make $174k. The President makes $400k. 10x this to attract better talent and reduce the incentive to do favors in exchange for lavish private gigs after leaving office.
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Matthew Yglesias
@mattyglesias
In Singapore, senior public officials can earn around $1 million a year. Any why not? These are important jobs. We shouldn’t tolerate corruption, incompetence, or featherbedding. But we should absolutely pay top dollar for talented, hardworking people.
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Matt Steele
@rmattsteele
I think in Singapore they err on the other side of ideal pay: they're extremely rich, extremely powerful, and not very accountable to the electorate. I'll admit the pay gap between private and public top jobs is too big in the US, but I don't think we should eliminate it.
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ntnow
@ntnow1
Another low key advantage of paying public servants more is that it is likely to attract more conservatives than are willing to do it for the current pay.
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Purswell
@Purswell14
Yes. Management in Fortune 500 companies are routinely paid more. Salaries below $200k aren't likely to attract the best executives.
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Graham Parker
@GrahamInParis
"for talented, hardworking people" that's fine for civil servantgs who go through an actual hiring process, but i do not want to live in a world where Boebert, MTG, and some of their male MAGA brethren make one dollar more
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