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Originally Posted by Willravel
The idea would be to prevent them from making promises they can't keep. It would be preventative. Instead of a candidate promising to lower taxes, which one cannot responsibly promise (which is exactly your point), they will say something more like, "I will do everything I can to lower taxes." That's a more reasonable claim.
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Oh God. As if politicians weren't intentionally vague enough already.
If a candidate changes tune on a means or end due to relevant context changes or improved vision/wisdom, I wouldn't want to penalize them for it. And if a candidate allegedly means what he promised
at the time and allegedly has a change of heart or circumstances
at a later time, how would you go about proving the perjury?
Most you could really do, I think, is start a stupid meme about "flip-flopping".