• 0 Posts
  • 60 Comments
Joined 3 months ago
cake
Cake day: February 16th, 2026

help-circle


  • We see it in studying state legislatures who have term limits. (I studied this in graduate school before switching to a different master’s program)

    Term limits doesn’t change how much power and money are available. It just changes who controls that power and money (the budget.) If the congressmen lose some of that power via term limits, that power doesn’t go away. It doesn’t go unused. It gets scooped up and used by the lobbyists to get things passed a naive congress.

    Worst, you create perverse incentives where congressmen are locked out of running for re-election, so they take their expertise and contacts gained in office and work for the lobbyists that used to lobby them.

    No, as good as term limits sound, it’s much, much better to leave it up to the voters to decide who their rep will be. If they want a 40 year veteran or a rookie every two years, that’s their choice to make.