freeman3
If candidates running for office could only use a limited amount of money, provided through some kine of public system they would no longer be as responsive to the lobbyists. They would respond to the wishes of the people more closely.
What people generally want is security and opportunity. What the US has failed to provide to the working class and increasingly the middle class are these two things. Security could come in the form of health insurance and more equitable labor laws and consumer regulation.
Opportunity in the form of cheap accessible secondary education, and in the form of equitable labor laws.
What business needs is less complex regulation in a less litigious business environment. Strangely (to Americans) these things are all found in social democracies like Sweden....
Ricky talking about lobbyists got to me to thinking about campaign finance reform. So what if for elections for Congress and the presidency we leave existing rules for primaries with the EXCEPTION of having a third-party primary where any third-party candidate vies to be the third-party candidate. Then in the general election we assess the reasonable costs of running a campaign based on number of voters, historical costs of elections in that particular district, etc. Then the Republican, Democratic, and third-party candidate get that amount of public money and no more.
Never going to happen...but what
If candidates running for office could only use a limited amount of money, provided through some kine of public system they would no longer be as responsive to the lobbyists. They would respond to the wishes of the people more closely.
What people generally want is security and opportunity. What the US has failed to provide to the working class and increasingly the middle class are these two things. Security could come in the form of health insurance and more equitable labor laws and consumer regulation.
Opportunity in the form of cheap accessible secondary education, and in the form of equitable labor laws.
What business needs is less complex regulation in a less litigious business environment. Strangely (to Americans) these things are all found in social democracies like Sweden....