Do you think our politicians are paid too much and enjoy too many perks and luxuries at the taxpayers expense? Check out www.voteforsanegovernment.com to see someone who wants to get elected and cut their perks and put the money to better use.

Elected members should be volunteers, only bureaucrats should receive a salary, I'd have parliament sit for two weeks either side of June 30 to vote on budget measures and compensate them at a fixed daily rate in the manner of a Jury, all other business could be done via electronic media.
The job of MP's is to represent their electorate to the state and it's bureaucracy, in this day and age they could easily do that by spending all their time in their community and earning as much or as little as they wanted in private enterprise and if for some reason the community wanted to maintain them full time on a salary then they could sponsor them independently.

JOM, the year is 2013.

Now as for their pays, no, I dontt think they are ove paid, in fact, I think that if we truely want visionary leaders, we will have to pay more.

You see it stands to reason that if a barrister can earn upwards of a Million a year, and not have two thirds of the country hate him/her, why on earth would they choose politics for far far less.

Simple answer, they just didn't cut the mustard.

I say we need fewer politicians, pay them much better, and insist they carry professional indemnity insurance, so that if we had a repeat of the past six odd years, they would be sacked, and we would have our money back.

But, a the end of the day, you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.

If Politicians were to be paid by merit most of them would starve.

turtletinman>> Do you think our politicians are paid too much<<

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah.What was the question again?

rehtcub>> But, a the end of the day, you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.<<

If thats the case Butch, bring on the monkeys.

I don't think they get paid enough to put up with all the vitriol levelled at them on a daily basis from their adoring public.

I agree with rehctub.
If we want better politicians, then maybe we should offer more money.
As it stands now, I wouldn't want to do their job if I was offered ten times their current salary!