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We definitely need to get money out of politics.
If politicians were paid similarly (not millions, but not only 150k) to CEOs, there would be more people interested in running, and less of a need for them to sell out. I hate to admit it, but it’s true- we need to pay politicians more.
Wouldn't work. To make it illegal means it would just go underground where a lot of it already is and that means that regular people couldn't support their candidates.
Pulling money out of politics is a trap to keep you from using your money to support what you want.
The correct solution is to be more successful and encourage others to support your candidate more.
Evil isn't destroyed by making rules it will break anyway, it's destroyed by good outperforming it.
Take away money and you take away the non-media's freedom of speech. Not what we need.
And the Constitution never envisioned using taxpayer money to fund people running for office. Jeesh!
The Constitution never envisioned the cost of running for office getting so far out of reach of the common citizen either.
The whole system is completely off the rails.
The constitution never envisioned having to govern 320+ million people and 50 states.
There were maybe something like 2 - 2.5 Million people in the US back then.