You can greatly reduce the money spent on support staff to compensate for the additional reps.
Paying representatives is totally worth it. Are you saying that we shouldn't pay even the current number of representatives, or benefit of representatives sharply decline as their numbers increase?
I am saying currently we have 600 reps making 150000 or something like that per year. Having 35000 at the same salary would just cost a little more. In addition 35000 is like a decent town. TO get anything done probably would need some elections to form a council that makes decisions.
The representatives will elect representatives. Problem solved!
While I think the parent was referring to how much a company would need to spend to buy off enough reps for their legislation, it is a valid point that increasing the current $100M or so we currently spend on these guys by 2 orders of magnitude would eat a lot of the national budget. Then again, it would also lower unemployment.