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Ok but what if the term limit was, say, 16 years for the House and 18 for the Senate?
by sfblah 10y ago
Ok but what if the term limit was, say, 16 years for the House and 18 for the Senate?
- theptip 10y agoIt's not clear to me why there is a magic time that someone suddenly becomes ineligible for public service. I'm sure many politicians keep getting better at their job, even between year 16 and year 32. Or even if we assume an asymptote of quality improvement over time, surely we want to have more politician-years spent during the peak of their quality, rather than in their first 4/8/16 when their output is less? The idea of term limits implies that politician's utility becomes negative at some point in time, and that just doesn't fit with my understanding of how negotiating and learning how to build consensus works. I'd love to see some hard data either way on this one.