Talk:Term Limits/@comment-71.93.1.181-20150128060319

Were Senators and Representatives limited to one term, not one term lifetime necessarily, but one term at a time, there would be no point to accumulating a huge re-election fund, and our elected representatives would have more time to devote to actually representing us. Single term limits make sense if you believe that our politicians are basically honest people caught up in a flawed game.

If you're a bit more cynical, you might think that single term limits would force the corrupting influences to buy new politicians every term rather than slowly corrupting them after they arrive at the Capitol and using them for 10 years or more average. We might still have a tough time getting our politicians to represent us, but it'd be at least 5x more expensive for the lobbyists to buy them, and there would be a much shorter time to buy them, which should make corruption much easier to identify.