07-28-2016, 04:18 PM
(07-28-2016, 03:53 PM)michaelsean Wrote: I don't care how elections are funded. If you want to run for office, then you live by the rules they pass, what I do care about is limiting my ability to support the person I want by the means I want. If I want to buy 1000 hours of tv time to support someone, then that's between me and whoever I am purchasing time from.
(07-28-2016, 04:02 PM)fredtoast Wrote: I don't think elections should be something that can be bought by the people with the most money.
I just want to expand here on what Fred is saying. If you make elections publicly funded but allow other people to spend cash, limited or limitless, you are negating the very thing you were trying to correct with publicly funded elections. So your efforts are now wasted. I don't know if Fred was saying this with his comment or not, but that is what would happen would that sort of situation occur.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
