Term limits will just accelerate spending and waste.
We must have a constitutional amendment requiring a balanced budget. SPENDING AND WASTE must be stopped!
This country now owes over its capacity to generate reveue, that is a death knell we should be hearing.
I believe if you limited every Congressman to 3 terms and every Senator to 1 term...you’d suddenly find “pay-back” wasn’t in their top ten priorities. I also think letting a Congressman or Senator push out a research project to give some professor $650k to find out why skunks smell...is a bit beyond the capability of the politician. It ought to be left to government departments that already exist and can readily explain the logic for the grant...which none of the Senators or Congress can.
How about taxing campaign funds in excess of $250,000 raised by incumbents at a rate of 50%?
I propose two four year terms for House members, with half the House elected every two years.
Senators would be allowed one eight year term. And no member could be eligible to run for the other house until eight years had elapsed between the last time they served in their old house.
This should eliminate the permanent political class in Washington. Congresscritters could stick around for two presidential terms. It would mean a great difference to representation in Congress and constantly rejuvenate it with fresh blood.
Of course the real obstacle is the refusal of congresscritters to give up their lifetime sinecures. That’s human nature. But if the American people demand it, sooner than later legislative term limits will be imposed on Congress as well.
Cut terms won’t happen why would a hack give up being above the law,perks,kick backs,face time on camers.Yeah the good old boy club is doing just fine thank you.
Replace them at every election and the problem will end or at least get better.
To address our current economic problems we should bring before Congress a simple proposal: Repeal the Sixteenth Amendment.
The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration.
This states that Congress can take as much of our income as it wants whenever it wants. Sound like a good idea?
For those who do not recognize this proposal, it is the Sixteenth Amendment to our Constitution. In just short of one-hundred years, these thirty words have destroyed the Last Best Hope of Mankind on Earth.
We are a nation spiraling out of control to a future that none but a few drunk with power desire. There is but one hope to forestall this catastrophe, we must remove from Congress the Right-to-Robbery.
The pain and suffering will be tremendous but we shall survive. Continuing on our current path, these same hardships will result in the handing off to our children a failed state. And they will curse us for it.
To paraphrase Ronald Reagan: There are simple answers, just not easy ones. Help champion Our Last Best Hope. Demand that we repeal the Sixteenth Amendment.
“$2.4 trillion over 10 years”
The GOP wants you to think that is a large number, and the Dems want you to think it is a ridiculously huge number. In fact, it’s only $240 billion per year, and we are running a deficit of $1.5 TRILLION per year. It’s less than 1/6 of the annual deficit. It’s tiny.
Why would anyone spend millions of dollars for a job that pays in the thousands?
My guess: so they can jury-rig the tax code, broker side deals, get to fly the in the company jet, etc. as well as plain old corruption.
There is too much government, period.
It is TIME to DownSize DC!
And TIME to force Congresss and Senate to telecommute most of the year from their home district. There is no reason for them to be in DC most of the year. NONE.
The Constitution states that they shall meet at least 1 time per year and does not state the duration.
The Texas Legislature meets 1 time every 2 years unless the Governor calls for a special session. It has worked well for a very long time.
Can you imagine the cost saving of removing the Congress and Senate from DC 3/4s of the year? And it would remove them from the influence of the lobbyist for that time and place them back under the thumb of the electorate.
A total change of the Center-of-Gravity of the Federal Government.
IT IS TIME!
My druthers:
1. If you have worked as a lawyer in ANY capacity in the last five years, you are ineligible to run for federal office.
2. If you have worked in any capacity for a lobbying firm, even for one day, you may never run for federal office.
3. Once in office you have a maximum of 12 years to be in office. Use them wisely.
4. Reps and Senators already in office get the same 12 years. Items 5 and 6 apply.
5. While in office, you must telecommute from your home district at least 50% of the days Congress is in session.
6. Once you leave office you can never work for any entity that has connection to the federal government in any way.