Campaign Finance Reform

Liberty
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Repeal Citizens United and replace with the following Campaign Finance Rules:

New Campaign Finance Rules: The following rules shall apply to all elections:

  1. Individual Contribution Limit: There shall be no limit on the amount of money that an individual can contribute to a candidate.
  2. Disclosure Requirement: All contributions to a candidate must be publicly disclosed within 24 hours of receipt.
  3. Voter Eligibility Requirement: A candidate for office may only accept contributions from individuals who are eligible to vote for that candidate. This means that a candidate may only accept contributions from individuals who reside in the district or state that the candidate is seeking to represent. The contributor is not required to cast a ballot for the candidate.

Rationale: The current campaign finance system is broken, and the Citizens United decision has only made things worse. By allowing unlimited contributions from corporations and special interest groups, we have created a system in which politicians are more accountable to their donors than to the people they are supposed to represent. This seeks to restore the integrity of our democracy by ensuring that candidates are only accountable to the people they are supposed to represent. By limiting contributions to individuals who are eligible to vote for a candidate, we can ensure that candidates are focused on serving the interests of their constituents, rather than the interests of their donors.

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Contributions from individuals also should be limited. Better would be publicly financed campaigns allocating the same limited budget to all candidates.

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Wealthy donors had the power to replace Biden by threat of cutting off funding, there is no stronger evidence that the system is broken.

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501c 3 and similar PACs, Corporations, and Organized groups may only donate a set amount for each employee, in total, in any one election. For starters, and dollar limit might be 3 dollars per employee. This limits the affect of shadow, untraceable, and unscrupulous donors’ influence on the election and behavior of the elected, once in office.

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I’m in total agreement with the removal of citizens united, but why would I want unlimited contributions from individuals? Visibility would be better, but influence would be massive.

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I think the ideal thing to do with campaign contributions would be to have all donations go in to a general fund for distribution to each official candidate equally, and only to all candidates in equal shares. Perhaps the pool of candidates that can’t afford the advertising and other campaign expenses might stand a better chance if more was known about them. I feel our two main party systems could use a bigger gene pool so to speak. I’m sure it will never happen, but it’s a nice dream!