Deputies were offered a “median salary”: to make it dependent on the income of the population

The proportionality of the income of the people’s choice and a simple worker will improve morals, social activists say

Experts of the Russian Public Initiative propose to make the salaries of deputies dependent on the income of the main part of the country’s population. This impulse attracted thousands of votes on the Internet.

It is curious that the authors of the initiative do not indicate what level of deputies should undergo this procedure, and do not name specific salary figures. It’s about addiction. As a criterion, the authors take the “median salary” – that is, the amount more and less than which is received by half of the working population of the country. In this case, the salary of deputies will automatically increase or decrease simultaneously with the salary of millions of ordinary workers. According to the authors, this will contribute to the improvement of morals.

Published in the newspaper “Moskovsky Komsomolets” No. 28847 dated August 16, 2022

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The salary of deputies was proposed to be tied to the salary of ordinary workers