Why would paying more help? You want representatives that represent the public well. Sure you might not want all of congress to be welders, but I also don’t think parliaments around the world should be filled with people who chose between being high rate lawyers or business leaders and holding public office.

The current pay is more than enough. If anything, it could be extended beyond the term to guarantee quarantine periods between office and businesses.

Allowing stock trading is insane. Allowing the amount of campaign money currently circulating is also insane. Provide candidates with campaign funds and limit spending, so they can’t be indebted to corporations once in office.

Basically: just look at some country where politicians aren’t just racing around raising money, and ask “what’s done there and can the same be done in the US?”. This is the that-would-never-work-here thing again.