Quote - Elected office should be a public service, as originally intended.  There was no plan for a permanent political class who would remain in office for decades.  It should be a penurious experience, with term limits, and one should be forbidden from profiting from the job before, during or after.  This would eliminate the showboats (you all know who they are and they infest both parties) from spending their entire lives directing the general populous who are obviously too ignorant or lazy to get about their own business.

There is already a term limit in the Constitution that limits the president to two 4 years terms.
Unless there is a big clamor to get something similar in the Contstitution for congressmen
and senators it won't happen.  And in a way this is taking away people's rights.  If somebody
likes their congressman or senator, what right does someone else have to forbid that
person from voting for someone they feel is serving their interests.

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Think about this for a minute.  60% of Americans pay no federal income taxes at all.

Actually the number is 40%.  And  I would assume a large percent of those are children too
young to work and the elderly who are no longer earning an income and live on a retirement
pension.