Singapore has high politicians salaries and low corruption as measured by international standards. They also have extremely strict anti-lobbying or to use the sane word anti-corruption laws. Their reasoning as I understand it is to attract and keep good people in government, competing with the public sector, instead of attracting what amounts to an endless stream of grifters that work for lobbyists and not the government.https://www.transparency.org/en/cpi/2024 Singapore is number 3 for the most recent report. USA by comparison is number 28. It’s an apples and oranges comparison given the vast differences in the two countries of course, and raising politician’s salaries isn’t a black and white fix for the problems in the USA.
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