Cutting pay is ridiculous gimmickry and doesn’t solve the real issues.
It isn't if they do half the damage and head home to their districts to work at least half of the year.
You can pick each thing apart but when taken as a whole, the picture is clear.
Gov Perry's 3-Part Agenda:
Perry: Uproot and Overhaul Washington
The Perry Plan: Energizing American Jobs and Security
The Perry Economic Plan: Cut, Balance and Grow
Smart, limited government works for Texas:
I want to know who intends to limit the power of an increasingly dictatorial office of president.
What Perry wants to do is reduce the need to go to Washington. What this means, in practical terms, is downloading more responsibility to the states, where it should have always been.
It may also mean, in practical terms, is that while Washington shrinks, state legislatures grow. But, because states are closer to the people, it’s less likely that they would become as corrupt as Washington.
Going part time and spending more time in their districts and not rooting themselves in DC is enticing however.
I question how much a POTUS can do to make it happen but it is a good idea IMO.