The expenses scandal

[wellinghall]

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And while we're at it, I'll point you towards today's Matt:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/matt/

Comments

[alitalf.livejournal.com]

It seems that our MP has not been implicated in any expenses scandal, at least so far, but I am slightly biased towards a protest vote because the professional politicians have set up for themselves a system that is designed to be abused.

Instead, I would like to see them paid a figure related to the average income, after tax, of UK citizens over (say) the age of 18. They make us all poorer, on average, they get less. They improve the lot of average people, they get rewarded. Might need refinement, but I think that would give some sort of incentive for right behaviour, not purely actions that are self-serving at the expense of everyone else.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

There would seem to be merits to this idea. Even if they got a multiple of average pay, there would still be a link.

Getting take-home pay that was related to average take-home pay might be a nice refinement.*

*ETA: Although there would then be the question of which home, of course ... ;-)