It is beyond absurd that politicians that are lining their pockets with special interest money and sinking our economy should be as well paid as they are. Therefore I am proposing that we figure out a scale in which a federally elected official's (Senators, members of Congress, and Presidents/Vice Presidents) All take massive pay cuts those still in office and those no longer in office when the economy is doing poorly and get pay increases when the economy is doing well - call it a political incentive plan
Politicians should be the first to feel the hit of a poor economy since the state of our economy is in their hands.