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Well, agreed for the common Joe, but that still allows someone with a net worth in the tens of Billions to throw money around. Especially because these people h
by marcyb5st 2y ago
Well, agreed for the common Joe, but that still allows someone with a net worth in the tens of Billions to throw money around. Especially because these people have a clear conflict of interest.
They should ban money contributions completely. Each party gets the same budget (say 10M$ and you run your campaign until you have money and that's it).
You as a citizen wants to donate? Go and collect signatures, spread the word or stuff like that, but no money (IMHO).
- sweeter 2y agoJapan gives every candidate an equal amount of time on TV. Its just one example of something that other countries do to make elections more fair. You could limit resources and give everyone a standard platform as a baseline so that anyone outside of the deeply entrenched dual-party system has a chance to win.
- aliasxneo 2y agoDoesn't the US have similar TV laws with cable networks?
- sweeter 2y agoWe used to have the fairness doctrine but it was repealed
- aliasxneo 2y agoThis is the one I was thinking of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal-time_rule#:~:text=The%20equal%2Dtime%20rule%20(47,access%20to%20competing%20political%20candidates https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal-time_rule#:~:text=The%20....