Term limits for Congress movement

Grizzly Bear said:
I've always held the view with the income redistribution debate that those tax policies penalize the whole rather than those who actually game the system and I view the idea of term limits to be the same way. If you're going after the corrupt politicians, one needs to tackle the underlying factors that enable the crooked ones to stay in office for decades at a time in spite of their records and the term limits don't do that directly.

Still, I wouldn't cast away the idea entirely. People change over time, term limits have a place, just not as a penal tool
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If nothing else, term limits make corruption more expensive, because you have to buy a new set of politicians every eight years.
 
The problem is those politicians are now bought even before they're offered to us in elections.
 
Any and all term limits = the electing populace admitting that they are utterly incompetent to elect good leaders. And/or that >50% of those they elect suck, so shouldn't be in office long, so they admit that they suck at electing people. Human electing Americans are stupid and two-party enough to easily call the vast majority of them idiots already; but at least some decent office-holders might fall through cracks and deserve to be re-elected multiple times?

But oh---no, let's just try to stymie our own stupidity by not allowing anyone we vote for to run for too long. Satan vs. Hades? Well, if one is GOP and the other DEM of course we'd only vote for one of the two candidates, no third party would be considered. But they shouldn't hold office for too long! Because: I'M STUPID
 
Tough one.

It's frustrating watching people get elected though and coming out a hell of a lot richer than when they went in.

I'd be more inclined to support something being done about that.
 
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