How do we get corporate money out without removing all special interest money, including unions and any other association of like minded people? Remember when forming your answer that we do have an equal protection clause in the constitution.
What would it take for the U.S. to abandon the two-party system?
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Easy! By asking a simple question, does this help to enrich the lives of a minority or a majority of people in this country.
The overwhelming majority of contributions in the Cesspool on the Potomac are campaign contributions. Completely legal, and welcomed because everybody is up for re-election (well, except one guy, and only for the next month) Remove the need for campaign contributions, and K Street would dry up.
Then the only reason to spend money in DC would be out and out bribery. A lot of that could be handled by directing office holders to declare assets & income yearly.
Reform movements, in my view, run afoul of trying to restrict the voters/the public. I'd much rather restrict the office holders. If you don't like the restrictions, don't seek public office.
Reducing the size and scope of government is the best way to reduce the influence of money in my opinion.
Yep. The more government does, the more interested parties lobby to influence what the government does. You have to go to the source to solve the problem. As one colleague of mine put it: The best way to permanently get rid of all the green bottle flies is to get rid of all the (crap).
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So anything that helps premature babies, kids with cancer, or the Amish is out then?
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