There is enough evidence to demonstrate pay increases have not been earned.
Perhaps we take a different look at how we compensate our legislators (and maybe most of the top level bureaucrats)
Perhaps we do away with all of the term limit nonsense, and decrease the salaries of those who remain in government (YES including those who are high dollar appointees) by 10% each year to encourage them to return to the private sector.
Maybe THAT would be the direction pay should go in the future?
You Betcha! 
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Hassan Jaber? Swell. Just swell. But, not surprising that the Ann Arbor Nerd cairs about Michigan.
Welday? Ya, I figured that's how Team R would appease the schmuck.
And, Bob Young can go piss up a rope as well.