by: Diane Benjamin
Unless Mike Madigan is successful at getting the question off the ballot, Term Limits will be up for vote in November.
Some people say Term Limits are being pushed to get rid of Mike Madigan. That is probably true. I poll watched a Madigan precinct a few years ago. Unless he dies in office, term limits are the only way he is leaving. Term Limits will also get rid of other useless politicians in Springfield, the ones that mostly just collect a paycheck and campaign contributions for votes.
But there is another side to the story:
States with Eight-Year Term Limits are the Most Cash-Solvent
By Nick Tomboulides
In January, the Mercatus Center at George Mason University released its 2014 state fiscal health rankings. This seemed like an excellent opportunity to test the old clichés put forth by opponents of term limits — about inexperienced public officials supposedly running term-limited states into the ground.
The study shows that the exact opposite is true. Four of the five most cash-solvent states in the nation (Florida, Ohio, Montana and South Dakota) have eight-year term limits, which is especially impressive when one considers that only 11 states overall have eight-year limits.
This data seems to confirm what we’ve known intuitively — that people without lifelong careers in politics are no strangers to budgeting and paying the bills on time. After all, doing that in one’s own household is often more challenging than doing it with a surfeit of other people’s money.
Finishing dead last on the list is the state of Illinois, where term limits don’t exist and one man, Michael Madigan, has been Speaker of the House for the past 31 years. Thankfully, the effort to term limit the Illinois General Assembly will likely succeed this year.
Read More: http://termlimits.org/states-eight-year-term-limits-cash-solvent/
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I’m curious, if the term limits pass (and I definitely want them to), will they be retroactive or do the term limits start then? In other words, do we get rid of the long term incumbents right away or do we have to wait however long the term limits are until they are forced out
I really don’t know. Anybody know? I assume it will be phased in.