is the only way to prevent "paid for" politicians. If the president is limited, so should be everyone else.
How do we make that happen? No politician would vote for it.
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is the only way to prevent "paid for" politicians. If the president is limited, so should be everyone else.
How do we make that happen? No politician would vote for it.
Term limits are only the top layer. Its the employees underneath them, running their offices that have the real power. They are writing our bills and getting to influence things on a scale not imaginable by the founders. Those are the people that need limits as well. We didnt elect them but they are the ones wielding the real power.
Washington DC is a Byzantine labyrinth. The first term of any congressman is basically spent figuring out where to find the bathrooms and his committee meetings (if he's lucky).
Term limits will not address the fundamental issue which is: The concentration of beaurocratic power and the public treasury in Washington DC.
All term limits will do is cement the under layer of unelected staffers as the perpetual power base.