It's the money, man. You have to get money out of politics. You need to make it personal donations only, cap it at the high end, then allow unlimited donations to a central pool that is evenly distributed among all qualified candidates (randomly, something like polls at 1% in any state pops into my head). It really doesn't matter which system you use if you get money out of politics. Same goes for insider trading. Pay the politicians more money, take away their ability to trade. Want to really make them work hard? Incentivize their service. How about a million dollars as a bonus for each year the people approve of their work. I'm just spit-balling here, but we HAVE to make them work for US.

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