Petition: Set the compensation for the Executive at the median wage.

This post seems a bit parochial for HN but - an observation - US presidential candidates are never poor - I don't think they care about the salary you know.

A proposal to tie the salary level of all Executive branch compensation to the median income of the American worker, currently roughly $40,000 a year, as determined by the BLS; as well as to merge all retirement plans with Social Security and all healthcare plans with Medicare/Medicaid.