Every legislature faces the inescapable “pay problem” of voting to set the compensation levels of its own members.

The response of legislators in many states has been to evade the negative political consequences of an affirmative vote to raise compensation either by avoiding a vote altogether or by engaging in a sham proceeding in which the leaders of both major parties have agreed in backroom deals to raise salaries.

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