Yeah, I’m totally for this…but how is it ever going to be enforced?
The Governor of California ALLEGEDLY received a $3 Million dollar home, for instance, as ALLEGED payment from a company, which affiliation Governor Newsom ALLEGEDLY forgot to list on his financial disclosures, so his Attorney General ALLEGEDLY allowed it, and the Governor immediately took out a $1 Million loan against the property, as the story goes.
Whom is going to prosecute the prosecutor?
Anyone remember Kamala Harris prosecuting marijuana possession while publicly admitting she “inhaled” marijuana herself?
Make political office a humble public servant job again. No lobbying $$ or or future job offers, no PAC $$, no insider trading, stop the grift and terrible self serving decision making.
This is a wonderful idea! If there was a government coffer funded by citizens, then every candidate would have the same amount of funding and there would be no extra frills or advantages - especially being funded by those who have agendas that could harm the American public. We’d hear the candidates policies and not agenda/money driven nonsense that doesn’t benefit our country! All candidates would be given equal voice, equal air time, equal debate time, etc.
I agree with this. I’m not sure of how it would be implemented but would love to see it happen. Too many “bought” people running and getting elected to office. They go into office medium financial worth and come out millionaires. Public service should be just that, service for citizens of America. Not bought politicians.
Lobbying is literally what you’re doing right now. …
The irony almost hurts.
I know what you mean I want corruption to stop too.
But stopping people from talking to congress to make changes aka “lobbying” can’t be banned in our constitutional system. Anyone is allowed to talk with anyone by law and the first amendment.
Perhaps you can come up with a more specific system to stop corruption that doesn’t include preventing talking to government officials.
You have to start by eliminating PACs. Candidates get a CAC, Candidate Action Committee, that can receive individual contributions. Limit individual contributions to 7600 dollars. Now the billionaires can’t launder their millions to a candidate through the numerous PACs, money laundering for bribes.
Lobbyist’s are already not allowed to pay or gift. They lobby a politician through guarantees that a politician will receive a certain amount from their people through campaign finance, which is your PACs. They launder their money through PACs to a politician.
Get rid of PACs, restrict the action committees to a Candidate’s Action Committee, CAC, that can only receive individual contributions; and you’ll get rid of 90% of the big money being thrown around by billionaires on politicians. Politicians will stop caring about how much money a special interest group has and start worrying more about how many people a special interest group has supporting them because more people means more individual contributions.
Best part is this could be done by executive order as enforcement of laws against money laundering and bribery, and the Supreme Court would probably back the legality of the executive order because it’s an enforcement of existing laws against money laundering and bribery. Don’t even need congress or legislation to get this done.
It would take an extremely anti-establishment President to do this. Basically a big middle finger to the entire establishment, Republican and Democrat. Have fun trying to win an election without money. Now you have to actually cater the common interests of all Americans, instead of the big money special interests that fill the coffers
I agree that lobbying is basically fine, however I don’t think it should be allowed in Washington DC. Let our elected officials fund raise and meet with lobbyists on their own time, only in their home state.
I would even suggest our politicians submit to regular financial audits to prevent bribery and corruption. We shouldn’t be seeing politicians becoming multi millionaires during their first terms if they’re working in the interest of the people.
Congress and presidential campaigns should be evenly funded bybtax dollars , no more donor donations . No more than 200 private citizen donations…too many outside influences in our government