(02-09-2024, 09:01 AM)Lucky2Last Wrote: 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.

How are you going to get people elected who want to get the money out of politics?

Suppose I'm a billionaire, and suppose you get all the changes to the law you want.

How are you going to stop me from using my own money to run ads supporting the candidates I like?

My idea can be implemented within the self-interest of the politicians currently in power.  In ME and AK, the catalyst was a statewide centrist incumbent candidate who was being punished by the partisan primaries.  That will continue to happen in the other 48 states.  How will your idea be catalyzed? Usually the incumbents are the ones with the connections to the sweet elite money.  They're not going to vote for getting rid of that.

Plus

Florida already has some of the strictest disclosure and cap requirements for campaign finance in the nation. Is it helping?

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