A simple law that would completely disrupt the entrenched

Posted: Sep 8, 2016

"No financial contribution, to include contributions-in-kind, made by any individual, group, organization or other entity to promote the candidacy of any candidate for office shall exceed $100 in total in any calendar year, whether made directly to such candidate or to any organization that has been established for the purpose of electing such candidate." In other words, no one and no corporation, union, etc. can donate more than $100 per year to elect (or defeat) any candidate, whether it's given directly or through a PAC. Period. End of song. No one has more influence in elections than the average citizen, just because they have money. Of course, I say a "simple law", but the law itself would probably need to be made more comprehensive to include various ways that people might try to get around the law...for instance, giving funds to others to donate on their behalf. The mere fact that someone has a lot of money should not give them one iota of greater influence than the average hard-working American citizen. If "contributions" are a form of political "speech", as SCOTUS has declared, the principal of one-citizen-one-vote must still be preserved. Until we get money out of the equation, it will be money that buys electoral outcomes. This leaves the average citizen completely powerless. ;