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What are the advantages and disadvantages of paying our elected representatives a salary?

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Advantages:

- Salary help the elected representative to sustain their living, so they can focus on the government without taking another job.

- Salary attract competition for the job, which increrase the likelihood of us obtaining high quality representatives

Disadvantages

- It could clouded people's purpose from taking the job. Rather than caring about people, they can shift their attention only to the money.

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