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Politics : Actual left/right wing discussion
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To: TimF who wrote (4544)11/10/2006 9:50:27 PM
From: Peter Dierks  Read Replies (1) of 10087
 
You'll get corrupt politicians either way. You might get a few less if you pass term limits.

We might experience a higher number of them due to turnover. The ability of each one to take advantage of their power is likely to be greatly reduced. I doubt there would be many $200M bridges to nowhere if we had a limit of 12 years total federal service in place.

I didn't say I opposed term limits, in fact I said I might support them. I said I opposed putting people in jail over the issue, and I also said I opposed limits "in federal elected offices combined."

If you don't have any term limits you end up with people that refuse to leave, and they end up with a disproportionate amount of power, which they always end up abusing. If you put term limits on each office you get people playing musical chairs. For example six terms as Congressperson and two terms as Senator would still result is someone being in Washington too long. If you instead limit the consecutive terms they can just serve in Congress and then switch with a Senator and then switch back.

If a person can't achieve what they went to Washington to achieve in twelve years, they are unlikely to ever achieve it.

Term limits are a only a marginal solution to corrupt politicians.

I believe that career politicians tend to be more easily corruptible than professionals who have achieved in private life and whom then intend to return to private life. For one a person who is already rich doesn't need to go native like Jim Traficant, Mel Reynolds, Duke Cunningham, and William Jefferson.
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