Fiona 
The salary of politicians should be computed as a constant factor of:
where
This would create a direct monetary incentive to maximize income of the low-income half of the population and reduce unemployment. And then just flat out ban any other income; if they want to work something on the side or have book-deals, or whatever, just tax that with a flat 100%.
¹ It might make sense to use per-person household income here, but the unemployment factor is kinda taking care of the “lowering the employment base” as well, so just going with regular jobs might be fine as well.
² With a good minimum wage this is going to be the same as several of the previous ones, but if you insist on making exceptions to that for internships or “workshops for disabled people”, they get basically nothing here.
(i_{0.5} + i_{0.4} + i_{0.3}+ i_{0.2} + i_{0.1}+i_{\text{min}})\times(1-u)where
u is the unemployment rate and i_x is the x-quantile income¹; i_{\text{min}} being the lowest income anyone is legally getting paid².This would create a direct monetary incentive to maximize income of the low-income half of the population and reduce unemployment. And then just flat out ban any other income; if they want to work something on the side or have book-deals, or whatever, just tax that with a flat 100%.
¹ It might make sense to use per-person household income here, but the unemployment factor is kinda taking care of the “lowering the employment base” as well, so just going with regular jobs might be fine as well.
² With a good minimum wage this is going to be the same as several of the previous ones, but if you insist on making exceptions to that for internships or “workshops for disabled people”, they get basically nothing here.
