Why do veteran politicians make millions as “public servants?” Because they have wealthy supporters who want them to vote for laws that will treat them favorably. The only way to counter this is to make government less powerful, an impossibility without term limits.
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When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.
The Law 1850
Claude Frédéric Bastiat