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Old 12-04-2022, 05:29 PM
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Originally Posted by justjim View Post
Special interests supply much of the money to the candidates and their party as the costs for campaigns continue to grow completely out of hand. Unfortunately that is unlikely to change anytime in the near future. The same can be said for any movement toward term limits for Legislators. We can always do better in the way taxpayer money is spent.
Warren Buffet had it right. If the govt budget is in a deficit when the economy was doing well all sitting legislators would be forbidden from running for reelection.

He estimated the budget would be in balance within about 15 minutes.