Maybe we should have as a public policy that when a certain topic is of sufficient public interest, and we observe some amount of $ registered for lobbying, the

Maybe we should have as a public policy that when a certain topic is of sufficient public interest, and we observe some amount of $ registered for lobbying, the government should be able to allocate a proportional amount of funds to have policymakers receive competent advice from other sides of the argument. (distributed according to some sound independent judgement) It seems that we're just leaving a lot of things to who can outgun in $ the other side lately. And sound government will never win in this race.