Continueing the list of people who’s income should be scrutinized further:
Politicians who write books: Why should we pay them to write a book and them make millions off of the advance.
Professors who make money outside the classroom: Why should public schools pay a guy to do research and then allow that professor to make money off of that research by writing books, getting speaking fees, and running outside businesses. We wouldn’t let anyone in corporate America do that.
Any ex-politician who uses the knowledge and experience gained in office to earn money after leaving office. If I helped develop a product for a company, the company would own the rights to the intellectual property. I would not be able to use that intellectual property elsewhere even if I did leave the company. I may be able to do the same job elsewhere, but I would have to be careful about doing anything that copied the product. Yet, we allow ex-politicians to make money by writing books about their time in office. It would be like an IBM executive writing a book about how IBM writes software.
