"I'd start with cutting salaries of congressmen!!!"

[DC Al Fine]

For some, this is true. The candidate whose campaign I worked for told me that he met a Congressman from Wisconsin who said he could barely feed his family with the salary. Most members of Congress are independently wealthy to begin with though.

174 000$ a year and barely able to feed his family, impressive. What do it say about congress that its members think that 174k are a low wage?

It's split 2 ways, but still, plenty of 6 figure incomes manage to keep a house and a cabin.