Politicians paid more for less work

The real issue is whether the compensation attached to public office bears any relationship to the responsibilities discharged by those who receive it

Prabhu Chawla NEW DELHI: Aristotle believed that the strength of a republic ultimately rested on the character of those who governed it. Montesquieu warned that political power, left unchecked, had a natural tendency to expand beyond its kosher limits. And Edmund Burke, while defending the independence of elected representatives, reminded them that they owed their…

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