No one qualified would ever run for office, if they would only hold a position in Washington for two terms. Who would welcome disrupting their lives and those of their families, for a short duration? We need a way to entice decent people into office, and this would not be the way to get them there.
Having a revolving door in Washington would transfer too much power to the Deep State...those bureaucrats who remain in their positions from administration to administration.
I appreciate the counterpoints. It could hopefully be seen as an honor to serve the country once again instead of being assumed to be a criminal, which the current vibe of working in government has.
I totally get the entice the families reason, though. Term limits while maybe increasing pay could only entice so much and we don’t need more govt spending. Maybe the limit is somewhere around is 10-20 years? Wondering what the current average tenure is for non term limited positions. If you have dinosaurs that are in their late 80s-early 90s in positions like the article where they are judges who don’t go through elections then that is a huge problem, you’d hope that between the overall awakening and voting in elections would be cleaned up so people like di fi/pelosi don’t remain for too long
Two arguments against term limits:
No one qualified would ever run for office, if they would only hold a position in Washington for two terms. Who would welcome disrupting their lives and those of their families, for a short duration? We need a way to entice decent people into office, and this would not be the way to get them there.
Having a revolving door in Washington would transfer too much power to the Deep State...those bureaucrats who remain in their positions from administration to administration.
I appreciate the counterpoints. It could hopefully be seen as an honor to serve the country once again instead of being assumed to be a criminal, which the current vibe of working in government has.
I totally get the entice the families reason, though. Term limits while maybe increasing pay could only entice so much and we don’t need more govt spending. Maybe the limit is somewhere around is 10-20 years? Wondering what the current average tenure is for non term limited positions. If you have dinosaurs that are in their late 80s-early 90s in positions like the article where they are judges who don’t go through elections then that is a huge problem, you’d hope that between the overall awakening and voting in elections would be cleaned up so people like di fi/pelosi don’t remain for too long