Or perhaps elected officials could choose ONE of the pensions to collect and they’d have to forego any rights to collect the others. If the pension fund dries up or is changed in any way, they can’t change their mind and switch to a different pension.
Granted, I’m not specifically opposed to your “no pensions” idea, I’m just offering an alternative to avoid multi-dipping.
Yes, maybe they could be restricted to the highest paying one or something. And quite frankly I don’t think anyone should be able to start drawing a pension until they are at least 60 or 55 at the very youngest. People just live too long nowadays, you shouldn’t work for 20 years and draw a pension for 40!
I’m not saying there couldn’t be something done for them, perhaps a 401(k) with some MINIMAL contributions made for them (in addition to their own money going in). And I’m not 100% opposed to providing some protection (for a brief time) for ex-presidents and their families.
A lot of people are still calling for term limits. And not just here, I see that everywhere.
These folks must not remember that term limits were voted in, maybe as part of the Contract with America but I’m not sure, but were ruled unconstitutional. Maybe this would be worth amending the constitution over, maybe not, but I think we can find other less cumbersome ways to make 40 year careers in congress less common.
Of course, we’d still be asking these folks to run against their own selfish interests, but we might be able to shame them into it.