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Would you support term limits for congressmen? Why or why not?
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Term limits would only work if you had additional considerations -
20 years on the federal payroll (secretaries, senators, generals, presidents, heads of state, et. al. are limited to 20 years total combined federal service). The exception would be for anyone who was elected to office would be allowed to finish their term.
All elected officials are required to disclose 100% of their funding to their campaigns and to their "offices" when they are not campaigning. Penalty is to be banned from the federal government for life.
All federal employee and/or elected official exceptions to the rules that apply to the rest of us are removed. Government employees are no longer excluded from social security payments, congress gets our health care plans, insider trading rules apply to congress, etc. etc.
Reasoning -
Voters tend to be uninformed and vote party, vote for the recognized name, vote for the incumbent. Laws exist that protect the incumbent as well (campaign finance). 20 year limit minimizes these effects so that we can keep fresh mind-sets flowing into the federal government. Entrenched, career government bureaucrats will also be limited while preventing "expired" elected officials from remaining in government.
Trade off is a less experienced federal government overall. I say this is good, some will say it is bad.
I want to be clear about 2 points -
I believe this to be a pie in the sky solution (will NEVER happen without a constitutional convention).
This is not an anti old person rant - you want to serve government in your 50's? Fine. Your are done in your 70's. Start in your 20's and end in your 40's. etc. etc.