I'm not disagreeing with you. At some point I'm going to fact check that $174k is enough to live comfortably in DC but for now I'll go along with it.

Everybody wants more. You say that like it's an accusation of wrongdoing when wanting more is the American dream.

On a federal level they're making about what a programmer who took a 6 month boot camp makes a year. 166k average vs 174k.

They live in spotlight under constant scrutiny, at any given time probably a third of the country hates them no matter how good a job they're doing.

I'm fine with getting rid of the graft but you have to bump up the salary or as I said we're going to get even worse politicians than we have now.