• @TallonMetroid@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Campaigns being explicitly publicly funded would also have the benefit that if the fatcats want to contribute more*, they’d need to pay more taxes!

    *while still not getting to choose who they’re actually contributing to, because eat the rich

    • Flying Squid
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      122 months ago

      It also stops what is going on right now thanks to Citizens United- foreign dark money coming in to influence elections.

      Because Russia is very likely pumping a lot of money into U.S. elections and they’re probably not the only one. It’s legal, so why not?