Take care.........pilgrim
The system is so complex that they couldn’t begin to understand it with just two two-year terms.
The House needs to go to a four-year election cycle so members can do their jobs instead of constantly running for reelection.
I do think the complexity needs to be reduced, but a Congressperson can’t fend off a bureaucrat’s request without knowledge and experience of his own.
‘After all, they are only part-time employees.’
In that vein lets make Congress a PT legislature in that they meet once/year. The remainder of the year they need FT jobs like the rest of us. No more FT pols.
Congressional pay would have been reined in had they ratified this proposed article in the Bill of Rights:
“No law, varying the compensation for the services of the Senators and Representatives, shall take effect, until an election of Representatives shall have intervened.”
An informed electr\orate would vote the miscreants out if, for example, they gave themselves an 8% raise and kept SS COLA flat.
Brilliant!
When you cut the pay of lawmakers below what they can live on guess what happens? They become even more beholden to those who will employ them on the way out.
Term limits in California have been a disaster. What we got was a string of nameless incompetents planning to be future lobbyists if they couldn't move up the ladder.
Is this now a conservative position? Really?!! A limited Constitutional government cannot control what salaries private businesses are allowed to pay. And it wouldn't want to.
Let's leave this type of claptrap to Bernie Sanders.
Stop mandating that mortgage companies and banks give loans to people who cannot afford them.
Marxism rears its ugly head in the strangest places.
This sounds like it was written by a 14 year-old. Specious pie-in-the-sky nonsense. She may as well have written “Don’t let mean people run for office”.