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Originally Posted by Derwood
god knows, there are thousands of high paying jobs just waiting to be filled by the lazy poor once they pull themselves up by their boot straps 
the poor would pay a smaller $$ amount in taxes per year, but far more in % of income |
Not if the taxes on spending included some sort of graduated luxury tax. Then it becomes a choice for those who make the money. If a millionaire chooses to drive a Honda Civic then he avoids the luxury tax but if he wants that Porsche, well then it is time to get out the checkbook. There are ways to balance everything.
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Originally Posted by Walter Sobchak
I considered that but placing a term limit would also leave us with a relatively unexperienced House and Senate. What if we, instead, enacted a term limit on committees? Wouldnt that help to keep said committee members relatively untouchable by special interest groups/lobbyists?
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Having an inexperienced President every 4 or 8 years doesn't seem to brought the world to a crashing halt, why should having new Representatives and Senators be any different? I am not quite as radical as the poster who suggested the idea though. Five terms for Representatives and 2 terms for Senators sounds good.
I think most of them go with the idea of doing something right for the country but I think after a while all they want is to stay. Maybe if they go knowing they can't stay forever, more of them will be willing to the right things instead of the politically expedient things. It would also force major turn over on a more regular basis. I would love to see the numbers on how of the current members of both houses served during Clinton or Bush I. I am guessing the numbers would amaze much of America.
Changing the guy at one end of PA Ave only goes so far when most of the 535 at the other end stay the same.