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My healthcare plan was "hope I don't get sick"
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Politicians should lose access to all of their prior assets, receive only minimum wage, and be given only the benefits that are available to the unemployed for the time they're in office.
My take is that they should lose access to their assets, get a nominal wage plus housing/their needs tended to, and after they retire be given a pension and never allowed to take up other employment, including accepting fees for public speaking etc.
Being offered a sinecure position after they stop working as a politician is, I think, a major form of bribery.
What about public sinecure positions for electeds who leave office?
Make them a train station manager or postmaster. Once you're in a public job position, the government will employ you til you hit 62 and get your pension.
Also a decent option!
How will this be enforced? Can't even take the president's shitty hotels, how will you enforce this for tens of thousands of people?
Oh I know, since the people currently in office have no reason to change the system that benefits them, it'd have to be post-revolution at which point it doesn't matter anyway.
Which in a way is kinda the point. If one were a liberal who wanted to get rid of corruption in the current system, they'd have to push for something like this, which would be seen as outlandish.
It would mean that the only people who could afford to be politicians would be capitalists and their hirelings.
That's already the result, though.