Is the out of this world minister salary worth preserving?

One of the most controversial policies of LKY must be the high minister
salary that he introduced as a compelling must do thing in his time. He
made such a ‘convincing’ case for it that there was hardly anyone
opposing to it. The country needs the best men and women in political
leadership. The country is so big, the job is so big, the salary must be
so big also or else no good men or women