The issues with labor unions contributing to democrats, or corporations contributing to republicans, is something that many think needs to be fixed. McCain-Feingold was a piece of legislation that as supposed to have dealt with the issues of campaign financing. It fails in that goal. I have another suggestion.
Only registered voters should be allowed to contribute to political campaigns for elected office. Afterall, only registered voters can vote. Seems simple right?
Labor unions donate to political campaigns and expect favorable decisions when collective bargaining agreements are being hammered out. Corporations donate with the expectations of favorable taxation and regulation. Politicians who accept those donations often oblige, thus endearing themselves to the donors, and the cycle continues.
The result of such arrangements is public employee pensions which are unreasonable and unsustainable, or tens of thousands of pages of tax and regulatory documents which a team of lawyers stumble over and through. And we are all caught up in this.
This week we have seen teachers in Wisconsin call in sick, only to appear at rally's opposing the proposed legislation trying to insert financial sanity into the operations. Teachers, expectedly advocating on behalf of their students and education in general, cheat those same students out of education because schools were forced to close while teach argue for their own retirement benefits.
Limiting campaign contributions to voters, people, and not corporations, political action committees, labor unions or the like, would put the voice of the people back into politics. It would make politicians beholding to the people of their district or state. It would restore "by the people" to the nations business.
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