Great idea - all benefits and perks (health care, pensions, etc) for all elected officials should be approved by the public that pays the taxes for these things. This could be done as part of the existing election process, when other bills etc are usually on the ballots.
This has the unfortunate side-effect of limiting the selections of candidates to folk who are wealthy enough to have those needs met elsewhere while still having enough time on their hands to dabble in the politics.
It's already hard enough to get a poor man in the seat; let's not go and make it impossible!
Jon
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