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Posted on 3/14/20 at 8:44 am to TidalSurge1
Posted on 3/14/20 at 8:44 am to TidalSurge1
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Simple, feasible and valid way to fix our broken dysfunctional political system: Limit maximum contribution(s) to any candidate's campaign fund by an individual or organization to $100 and disallow commercial campaign advertising (including TV, radio, internet, signage, billboards, etc. Require all candidates to publish their platform, stance on issues, etc. on an official election candidates' website. Limit campaign speeches, debates etc. to publication on the official election candidates' website and public/educational TV & radio networks.
Term limits and re-writing the constitution are both substantially more likely than getting money out of politics in this country.
I 100% agree with you though. Elections should be publicly funded, Citizens United should be overturned, PACs and Super PACs should be outlawed, and the maximum personal donation should be somewhere in the $250-1000 range. All of these things should happen, but never will because that would mean Congress has to give up those sweet sweet lobbyist dollars.
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Posted on 3/14/20 at 8:54 am to Robot Santa
We have term limits. It's at the ballot box. The problem is most people are entrenched in their side and won't vote for the other party, and incumbents have a HUGE advantage and are often tough to beat in a primary. They should just ban all political fundraising except for a specified period of time. Most legislators spend a good share of their time in DC fundraising for their next campaign.
We are approaching a huge problem in DC in a few years as the older Reps and Senators decide to retire. Some of them have become worthless, but we have so few true policy wonks that can draft bills. That void is going to be filled by special interests, and that has already started. The recent tax cut bill was largely written by special interests, as are many other bills. The problem is even worse at the state level. I forget which bill it was a few years ago that was passed and signed into law in Alabama, but the text of the bill was almost a verbatim copy of a sample bill on the website for a well known think tank. Term limits would likely exasperate this problem.
We are approaching a huge problem in DC in a few years as the older Reps and Senators decide to retire. Some of them have become worthless, but we have so few true policy wonks that can draft bills. That void is going to be filled by special interests, and that has already started. The recent tax cut bill was largely written by special interests, as are many other bills. The problem is even worse at the state level. I forget which bill it was a few years ago that was passed and signed into law in Alabama, but the text of the bill was almost a verbatim copy of a sample bill on the website for a well known think tank. Term limits would likely exasperate this problem.
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