Been watching several videos on it, and one complaint I’ve seen in general is Congress has too many fucking lawyers in office and the fact that there’s way too many lawyers means no one in Congress has had a “normal” job before politics. Another one is the whole complaining about corporate lobbying, but idk how you ban corporate lobbying without banning individual lobbying.
On the whole too many lawyers thing, several states in Australia have outright banned property developers and real estate agents from running for office, and there’s talk of making it federal, so I’m curious if that’s even constitutional in the US, just because having so many lawyers in Congress has turned out to be a problem.
I've had a similar idea, though I think the recipient should be barred from receiving any money, gifts, salary, or any other thing of value, for the rest of their lives. Obviously they would receive a pension, but failing to do this would open up the very obvious loophole of, "oh, vote the way we want and if you get thrown out, we'll have a great, high-paying 'job' for you."