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Term limits

• 10.11.08
  Doubletalk vs term limits
  Term limits (0)

  USA Today editorializes against term limits, giving the old, tired (and untrue) reasons why it's better to have entrenched incumbents in our nation's legislatures rather than inexperienced rookies. Then it tells us there's a better way to replace entrenched incumbents with inexperienced rookies: Do away with legislative gerrymandering. I'll bet USA Today is hoping people won't notice the doubletalk. Doing away with legislative gerrymandering is a good idea, but there's no reason why it can't coexist with term limits. We can do both. In fact, we're more likely to have both if ...
  
  
• 05.13.08
  Mike Adams is buying
  Tax policy, Term limits (0)

  Neil Boortz is a useful idiot of the welfare-police state, and it's sad to see that the normally sensible Mike Adams is buying his book and buying what he says. These Fair Tax people ought to think about about how this country's first consumption tax at the federal level brought about a huge expansion of governmental power in order to enforce it, and almost brought about civil war. (I'm referring to the Whiskey Rebellion.) Introducing an excise tax on the scale that these Fair Tax people are proposing will result in huge motivations for people to use ...
  
  
• 05.03.08
  How to uncorrupt a politician
  Term limits (0)

  The usual course of human events is for politicians to become corrupted by power. That means the longer they are in office, the more authoritarian and (these days) the more leftwing they become. Look what's happening in California, for example. The rare exceptions seem to come about during extended periods out of power. George McGovern's journey from leftwingism to liberalism is an example. So what happens to one of these politician once he's back in office? In today's WSJ, Mary Anastasia O'Grady recounts her interview with Peru's President Alan Garcia. After 16 years out of ...