Originally Posted by Axeman

Term limits would help, but the real issue is campaign financing. Unless it is changed so each candidate gets a certain dollar value for their election run from the government, nothing will ever improve in politics.

Make it illegal to take contributions from anyone private or public other than the pre-determined federal dollars, and so much corruption does out the door. You will still have some elected that will do back door deals to setup their private lives when they leave public service, but a great deal of the nonsense will go away.

However to get that to happen you need congress to do it, and well you guessed it, won't ever happen.