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End bribery and lobbying by large corporations

Why not simply disallow special interest groups, companies, corporations, lobbying groups, think tanks, nonprofits, and anything else that isn't an individual like you and I from contributing even one red cent to our elected and appointed officials?

Then set the maximum amount of money that any individual can give to an elected official very low, essentially what your limits are. This creates a situation that allows significantly more people (middle class folks) to contribute the same amount that affluent folks can, which somewhat levels the playing field when it comes to representation.

When it comes to our elected officials, things should be kept simple. Low limits on campaign contributions, and no "gifts", junkets, meals, or anything of value to be provided to them after their election. Remove the money, and you remove the greed. Remove the greed, and we'll finally start electing folks into office who represent us and our wishes-- not some crazy ideas and schemes of those who think the middle class should pay for those who are too lazy to work.
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To all liberals: I am NOT one of your parents, so get the heck out of my wallet. It's time for you to grow up and take some personal responsibility for taking care of yourselves, which means not relying on the government to give it all to you.

No matter what the rules are "special interest groups, companies, corporations, lobbying groups, think tanks, nonprofits, and anything else" will show up to figure out how to break them. There is no way to win. There are only degrees of losing.

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To further that.. why don't we take ALL funds as you outlined and put them into a US GOVERNMENT FUND that all government agencies/parties have the same access to.

No giving to X senator's campaign or party. Just a simple donation to the us government to help make it a better institution to represent it's people. Then any person of any party (or no affiliation at all) that can obtain X signatures to be put on a ballet can also gain access to the same amount of funds (personal contributions must go to general fund) as any other candidate. Then maybe the have nots can actually get representation by people other than the haves. (I use the word representation very loosely there.)

Maybe you misread my statement.

My proposal helps prevent the rich from being the only ones elected.

I am not saying it is legal or not. If the constitution says it is legal now, then the constitution can be amended or laws enacted to say it can't be, along with placing term limits on representatives of both the house and senate to eliminate these life long bed buddies of the corporations. The single biggest issue is that you have those in control having to vote to reduce their control. Which we all know will never happen. Therefore I believe a previous poster hit the nail on the head when it said it is going to take an up raising to fix it.

We have tore apart the underlying meaning of this country and the founding fathers idea of the nation and government by "adapting". Now the structure of the government needs to be adapted to account for the sheer greed, power hungry, corruption, and corporate control.

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