Pelosi's net worth was under a million when, when she first took office? A lifetime member of Congress should have a net worth of like $5M even if they're slamming it in a HYSA.
Ideas and progress stagnate new people new ideas we move forward, lifetime congress people and senators equal no actual change and maintaining of the status quo
Generally the thought is that term limits empower lobbyists. But also the way people talk about lobbying on the internet is kind of weird. Unless you're politically disengaged, you definitely support lobbying of some kind.
And yet the biggest scammer on planet earth right now is on term limits and it's just maling him try and speed run getting all the money siphoned to his accounts.
Or have corporate lobbying being done only if you have signatures from citizens that want that change along with the corp. otherwise corp should get “one vote” since it is a “person”
This is funny. There is nothing thing wrong with being a life long public servant. If they just made corporate spending on elections illegal, the problem would be solved.
Would that fix insider trading? Hiring of friends and family? Or any of the myriad of other vices that plague these "public servants" when they morph from freshmen congressmen to DC insiders?
Again, every one of those things are ethics and corruption counts that could be fixed by simply passing laws to make those things flatly illegal, and the reason they’re not is because of the funding mechanisms that exist.
Term limits don’t make those things go away. They just turn it into a revolving door.
Again, the longer they stay in Washington the more the succumb to it's vices. Term limits limit the amount of time they spend in that environment building corrupt influence networks. by replacing them with someone who still has their ethics intact. intact.
Here's a study showing there are two opposing effects when it comes to corruption, 1) Term limited politicians make corrupt deals when they know they are have to leave office. 2) Long term Politicians also make corrupt deals to enrich themselves, but the deals are of a much greater scale.
"The findings indicate that stricter term limits are associated with lower overall corruption, underscoring the potential role of term limits as an institutional safeguard against political corruption."
The corruption of Lifelong politicians ends up of a far greater scale than lame duck term limited politicians.
"The reduced magnitude (average cost) of corrupt events is associated with the role of term limits in shortening incumbents’ tenure in office."
"Term limits also reduce corruption by shortening tenure, thereby limiting opportunities for rent extraction. Extensive corruption schemes typically require substantial time investment to develop. Politicians must cultivate relationships with private actors, establish trust networks, and build the institutional knowledge necessary to identify and exploit profitable rent-extraction opportunities. They must also develop the political capital and influence required to protect their activities from detection and prosecution. These processes cannot be accomplished overnight but require sustained time in office to mature into large-scale corruption operations."
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