Quote:I don't see how changing who pays for the campaign will accomplish anything. Also with state financing a campaign it kind of gives the state control of who is running for what office, if we could assume they wouldn't use state funding as a means to filter candidates then maybe but I don't ever seeing that happening.

If the public is funding the elections that you don't have even a fraction of the money poured into the campaigns. You don't have special interests deciding the candidates. You don't have smear ads because the funds would be lower. 

 

A major concern would be how to do you decide who runs? Well the easy way would be to allow everyone that's interested but that's probably not feasible. I don't know the answer to that. It definitely is not perfect but you can't not try to do better because it might not be perfect. Perfection is the enemy of the good. 

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