Let’s put a rep’s pay in this perspective. Contrast the $175000/yr to the salaries of the LGH execs on the front page of the Sunday news. The reps are getting chump change. Or consider that the reps earn about the same pay as the 16 or so school superintendents in our county.
The reps are making federal laws that affect people from Maine to Hawaii, not to mention international policy and economics. Perhaps if we paid the reps more, we could get some people with talent to take the jobs. Of course, it wouldn’t hurt to find a way to select reps without selling them to the public on TV like automobiles and laundry detergent.
