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Date Posted: 16:50:15 11/02/00 Thu
Author: Mike Evergreen
Subject: Enough religion. Politics time. If we can't take back Washington.....

We'll have to buy it back.

This change would take time to take effect.

This election season will cost the people and organizations who contribute to political campaigns approximately $3 billion. That seems to be a very cheap price to pay for the total control these narrow-minded people and organizations have over our "elected representatives."

Election cycles occur every two years, so it costs the "owners" of our government $1.5 billion/year. I say "We The People" can outbid them, and it won't require a tax increase, either. $1.5 billion/year is just 1/10 of 1% of our annual federal budget, that's all. And that's for two parties. Six parties (taking into account the equal funding for not just the GOP and the Dems, but also the Greens, the Reform Party, the Conservative Party and the Libertarian Party) would cost $4.5 billion, just 3/10 of 1% of an annual budget.

We don't have to trample all over the constitution by banning private contributions, either. But we can require that every piece of campaign literature produced on behalf of any candidate who accepts them must publish their top-10 indivdual contributors, and top-5 organizational contributors. It would also have to roll in the credits for their TV commercials, and be read by the announcer on radio ads. This, in fact, would be the kicker. Over time, people would start to draw a distinction between candidates who run their campaigns strictly on the money the taxpayers provide for them, and those who accept private contributions on top of the money the taxpayers provide. Sooner or later they'll ask "What does he/she need THEIR money for?" The more people who ask that question, then vote that way, the sooner we get to "Take Back Washington" as so many whores, oops, sorry, politicians have claimed they could do.

I know that a lot of people will call this the "Big Government Solution," but I don't see them offering alternatives that will stand up to a constitutional challenge, and not to mention, not everything about "Big Government" is bad.

What do you think?

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