RE: Publicly financed elections.
November 19, 2014 at 7:24 pm
(This post was last modified: November 19, 2014 at 7:31 pm by Ryantology.)
(November 19, 2014 at 7:17 pm)Heywood Wrote: Money is speech so wanting less of it in a campaign is equivalent to wanting less speech in a campaign.
You might as well shed the already-flimsy pretense of representative democracy and just allow people to purchase votes. How about a thousand dollars per? No individual limit. That sounds like a perfectly pristine Republican idea. It sounds like the very apotheosis of Republican thinking, insofar as any such thing exists. It's not unfair! Anybody can purchase a vote! If you can't afford to, it's your own fault! You're just too lazy to work for it!
I'm surprised none of them have come up with it.