This might increases bureaucracy by creating must-pass laws where it’s easier to add new provisions.
Perhaps. Without any kind of expiration date, though, laws will pile up like rotten code until the whole thing becomes unmanageable.
What do you expect those people to do after they leave their job? If someone spends a decade in their job, in most cases you can argue that they financially benefit in the next job they take from that decade.
I think there’s plenty of room between “used political power for personal financial benefit” and “learned things on the job that carry over to the next job”. I’ll admit there is plenty of subtlety here, which is why a full audit should be done—I wouldn’t trust any cursory scrutiny to be correct, either to the former politician’s benefit or to their loss.
I do also somewhat think that if, for instance, someone serves on a Committee that deals with e.g. Oil and Gas, they should probably not be allowed to work in that industry afterwards. There’s too much opportunity for politicians to favor industries or companies in exchange for jobs/careers/cushy benefits after the politician leaves office.
Perhaps. Without any kind of expiration date, though, laws will pile up like rotten code until the whole thing becomes unmanageable.
I think there’s plenty of room between “used political power for personal financial benefit” and “learned things on the job that carry over to the next job”. I’ll admit there is plenty of subtlety here, which is why a full audit should be done—I wouldn’t trust any cursory scrutiny to be correct, either to the former politician’s benefit or to their loss.
I do also somewhat think that if, for instance, someone serves on a Committee that deals with e.g. Oil and Gas, they should probably not be allowed to work in that industry afterwards. There’s too much opportunity for politicians to favor industries or companies in exchange for jobs/careers/cushy benefits after the politician leaves office.