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2016-10-19 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by Besoeker 2016-10-19 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ] Top

#1 Reduce salaries by 30% to boot and I'm cool with it.

Posted by Raj 2016-10-19 00:21|| 2016-10-19 00:21|| Front Page Top

#2 Where was this 6 weeks ago when it would have had a bigger impact?

Posted by OldSpook 2016-10-19 01:18|| 2016-10-19 01:18|| Front Page Top

#3 CNN talking head was quick to make fun of Trump: We already have term limits for congress. YJCMTSU.

Posted by M. Murcek 2016-10-19 01:28|| 2016-10-19 01:28|| Front Page Top

#4 1. Term limits
2. Reduce salary by 30%
3. Replace pension with 401K
4. Ban working as part of a lobbying group after serving in office for X years

Posted by rjschwarz 2016-10-19 09:59|| 2016-10-19 09:59|| Front Page Top

#5 Make them answerable to the same laws and programs we have to abide by - including Obamacare and Insider Trading being illegal.

Posted by CrazyFool 2016-10-19 10:28|| 2016-10-19 10:28|| Front Page Top

#6 3. Replace pension with ~~401K~~ Social Security

There. I like that better.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2016-10-19 10:57|| 2016-10-19 10:57|| Front Page Top

#7 This topic was widely discussed many years ago. There was one argument against term limits which made some sense that needs to be considered at the same time.

That argument was that without Congress people with long experience it would confer even more power to the unelected bureaucracy. The Bureaucracy would not have any opposition wise to the way it works and able to provide some check (all right stop laughing).

While I don't agree that this is sufficient to NOT put term limits on Congress it does highlight a potentially more important issue which is the rise of the bureaucratic state.

Posted by AlanC 2016-10-19 13:04|| 2016-10-19 13:04|| Front Page Top

#8 Service limit the bureaucrats.

Posted by Black Bart Glutch4583 2016-10-19 13:28|| 2016-10-19 13:28|| Front Page Top

#9 Yep, all senior government official and officers in all branches need to have limits. If I could, I'd also ban any Senator from the office of President. Make your choice, do the job you choose.

Posted by Procopius2k 2016-10-19 14:49|| 2016-10-19 14:49|| Front Page Top

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