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The money is only a problem because people are buying influence with career politicians.  You want reform?  Mandatory term limits for all federally elected offices will take care of that. 

Since most of that was a partisan rant against your disdain for the progs and libs, I whittled it down to the relevant part to the actual discussion.

Quote:That's the whole thing.  The original authors of our Constitution never meant for service in government to be a career.  Take a good look at how many years certain politicians "serve" in office.  Take a look at the salary and benefits associated with that.

 

I realize that this takes us to a different topic, that being Term Limits.  However, certain politicians also benefit and make money due to campaign contributions and setting up "foundations".

I think term limits would be unnecessary if the legal bribery was removed from the system. However would not opposed to doing both. If you don't limit the money than you still have politicians doing what they currently do only they get to their cushy payoff lobbying jobs much much sooner.

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