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.
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.
When people are frustrated they want to vent and not think too deeply of unintended consequences of part-time / cut-rate government and "revolving doors" — they are looking for simple and easy answers (often provided by competing special interests)...
But just, as one example, who is going to run all the investigations of Clintons and Obamas and oversee all the runaway agencies and their unaccountable bureaucrats if the people "cut their pay and send them home"? If many Congress critters are not doing the job or not doing it well, that is no reason to slash and burn - people may end up with even weaker, less accountable and responsive institutions and system.
"There is always an easy solution to every human problem - neat, plausible, and wrong." - H. L. Mencken
"The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple." - Oscar Wilde
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“These are some” Guess this had no meaning.
And btw did not write the article. :) Just posted it.
If you read posts #9 and #10 you will see some other thoughts on the subject.
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