To: President Donald Trump, The United States House of Representatives, and The United States Senate
Bans PACS, SIGS, & Internet Money From Politiccs
Congress people spend more time raising "campaign" funds than they do pretending to work for us. The excuse is that they can't compete with other campaigns without the funding but this is nonsense. If they enacted an amendment that banned special interest, PAC and lobbyist "contributions" and allotted an equal amount of subsidized money to each candidate then the playing field would be level and fair, and our law makers' only motivation would be to please the majority of the population.
It is obvious that if our candidates received equal funding and equal airtime and were not allowed to accept any contributions then their only interest would be to serve the greater good. This is the reason American was founded. A few brave people wanted to escape tyrannical rule by rich kings and have a government that represents "the people." If we undid the corporate infiltration of government we would have a government that works for all of us.
It is obvious that if our candidates received equal funding and equal airtime and were not allowed to accept any contributions then their only interest would be to serve the greater good. This is the reason American was founded. A few brave people wanted to escape tyrannical rule by rich kings and have a government that represents "the people." If we undid the corporate infiltration of government we would have a government that works for all of us.
Why is this important?
Currently the public is secondary to the greedy interests of many elected officials. They give corporations tax credits to the extent that they pay no taxes and are actual paid, annually, by the IRS, often to the tune of millions of dollars per company. If politicians weren't controlled by the banks they wouldn't hand them billions of dollars of our money, without our consent, and then not audit the money nor care that the banks still do not loan money to people. (There are clients at Housing Departments in NC that are subsidized a 30% mortgage down-payment by the agency and the agency guarantees the bank that the debt will be paid if the client defaults--and they still cannot get help from the banks.)
We would also have much less war if the politicians weren't owned by defense contractors and oil men. Washington is rampant with corruption and conflicts of interest dictate our laws and actions. It is sick and corrupt and disregards almost all of the non-elite. Washington has become a gross perversion of what it was meant to be and we are all paying for it.
I would suggest subsidizing campaigns to equalize the candidate's resources so that their only motivation was to cater to the people they are supposed to work for.
We would also have much less war if the politicians weren't owned by defense contractors and oil men. Washington is rampant with corruption and conflicts of interest dictate our laws and actions. It is sick and corrupt and disregards almost all of the non-elite. Washington has become a gross perversion of what it was meant to be and we are all paying for it.
I would suggest subsidizing campaigns to equalize the candidate's resources so that their only motivation was to cater to the people they are supposed to work for.