It’s absurd that politicians are allowed to accept campaign contributions from individuals and corporations. Campaigns should be publicly funded.
The corporations is especially crazy. An individual supporting the democratic process makes sense. They are the ones voting. But a business doesn’t vote.
An individual supporting with hard limits to prevent a plutocracy makes sense.
The very-dishonestly named “Citizens United” fucked over We the People. Badly. Now, even Democrats and Independents have to also raise obscene amounts of money to match what giant corporations almost always throw at the Republicans who promise to lower their tax rates, limit regulation, repeal environmental and antitrust restrictions, etc.
If it’s not yet fully a capitalist hellscape, it’s well on its way there…
Campaigns being explicitly publicly funded would also have the benefit that if the fatcats want to contribute more*, they’d need to pay more taxes!
*while still not getting to choose who they’re actually contributing to, because eat the rich
It also stops what is going on right now thanks to Citizens United- foreign dark money coming in to influence elections.
Because Russia is very likely pumping a lot of money into U.S. elections and they’re probably not the only one. It’s legal, so why not?
Israel definitely is
But won’t someone think of the poor corporations?! What about their free speech?
- Roberts, probably. I didn’t actually read citizens united.
Ill believe corporations are “people” when one gets executed
America has been an oligarchy since corporations were given lobby rights into politics.
Campaigns should be publicly funded.
Then you would just have proxy donors.
Let’s say he donated the highest amount of 6 figure (i didn’t read the article), 999,999. His net worth is at 260 billion, would be the same as me donating $2.50 in regards to my net worth, and i consider myself technically pretty okay money wise. It’s absurd how much billions are…
US government gives multi multi billionaire most of his money, billionaire turns around and gives it to Republicans. how’s your money in politics working, is it good?
It’s trickle down economics in action.
trickle down
Yeah like piss, republican politicians are squealing little piss pigs, oink oink fuckers
Finally, the Republicans get money and golden showers. You really can have your cake and eat it too.
More like drink it
Remember when he donated $1 mil to Team Trees? Good times…
Fuck oligarchs, no room for them in a democracy
It’s pretty cool how he has the ability to single-handedly improve the lives of people in absolute misery (it’d cost him nothing to renovate one homeless shelter, for example) yet he spends his money on stupid shit like this. /s
