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Posted on 3/14/20 at 8:54 am to Robot Santa
Posted on 3/14/20 at 8:54 am to Robot Santa
We have term limits. It's at the ballot box. The problem is most people are entrenched in their side and won't vote for the other party, and incumbents have a HUGE advantage and are often tough to beat in a primary. They should just ban all political fundraising except for a specified period of time. Most legislators spend a good share of their time in DC fundraising for their next campaign.
We are approaching a huge problem in DC in a few years as the older Reps and Senators decide to retire. Some of them have become worthless, but we have so few true policy wonks that can draft bills. That void is going to be filled by special interests, and that has already started. The recent tax cut bill was largely written by special interests, as are many other bills. The problem is even worse at the state level. I forget which bill it was a few years ago that was passed and signed into law in Alabama, but the text of the bill was almost a verbatim copy of a sample bill on the website for a well known think tank. Term limits would likely exasperate this problem.
We are approaching a huge problem in DC in a few years as the older Reps and Senators decide to retire. Some of them have become worthless, but we have so few true policy wonks that can draft bills. That void is going to be filled by special interests, and that has already started. The recent tax cut bill was largely written by special interests, as are many other bills. The problem is even worse at the state level. I forget which bill it was a few years ago that was passed and signed into law in Alabama, but the text of the bill was almost a verbatim copy of a sample bill on the website for a well known think tank. Term limits would likely exasperate this problem.
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Posted on 3/14/20 at 9:31 am to The Spleen
I don't disagree with you. I'm not really a big proponent of term limits on legislators. It sacrifices experience and skill for the possibility that legislators won't govern with an eye toward re-election, but at the end of the day term limits do nothing to curb special interests getting candidates elected and supplying the cooperative ones with cushy lobbying jobs afterwards.
Posted on 3/14/20 at 9:46 am to The Spleen
Spleen, I am a socially conscious conservative and I have no problem voting for someone from either party that best represents my views and wishes. I am not entrenched for either party and I think most intelligent people who educate themselves on the issues aren't. IMHO, the problem is the polarization of the two choices we now have. I find myself voting Republican 95% of the time since Ronald Reagan because while the GOP has moved toward the right end of the spectrum, the Dems have swung SO far left as to be untenable for most middle class Americans. When Bernie Sanders and AOC are some of the mainstream faces of your party and your platform is socialized medicine, increased taxes on "the rich" (but when you do the math, "rich" equals anyone making $100,000 a year), government giveaways to illegal aliens, felons, and professional societal parasites, how does anyone that is a middle class working family person vote for them?
The GOP doesn't represent the middle class; I'm fully aware of that. Their policies benefit big business and deep pocketed people much more than the middle, but at least they aren't actively trying to destroy the middle class and doing it overtly with stupid socialist policies that are bad for everyone that isn't looking for a handout.
The GOP doesn't represent the middle class; I'm fully aware of that. Their policies benefit big business and deep pocketed people much more than the middle, but at least they aren't actively trying to destroy the middle class and doing it overtly with stupid socialist policies that are bad for everyone that isn't looking for a handout.
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