Presidential campaigns cost up to $100 million. Senate and Congressional campaigns cost from $2 million to $10 million. This wasn’t always the case, but now campaign dollars come from special interests and battling ideologues and this has resulted in a cost spiral. If all the red states and blue states were grouped together, we could do what Sweden did and form Norway, or what India did and send all the Moslems to Pakistan.
A better solution is to restrict campaign contributions to registered voters in the candidates’ city, county, district or state and outlaw all campaign contributions from unions, special interests, corporations, industries, foreigners and wealthy king-makers. If we want our elected representatives to work for us, the taxpayer, we will need to prevent special interests from contributing. They can take their freedom of speech and publish their own propaganda.
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