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Originally Posted by f3lix
Kremlin, please show me one single US political office which is "poorly paid." Don't forget to include benefits.
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F3lix: There's not a single political office which I would accept for the given level of pay. I'd accept them for other reasons, but not for the pay alone. And most people bright enough to deserve public office will have better options. The only ones who accept the job are either:
A) In love with themselves
or
B) In love with power
They aren't in it for the compensation.
Obama gets 400k salary plus 50k expenses. Let's just assume his total take-home is 1mm.
That probably doens't get him into the top 500 executives in America. And he's one of the best-paid government employees. The private sector just pays better. And it probably should. Because the government should be smaller. But since it's not, and since we've given these people such responsibility, we should at least pay attractive wages so the quality people would want the jobs. You've got a real problem if even I wouldn't want a government job because the pay is too low.