It’s absurd that politicians are allowed to accept campaign contributions from individuals and corporations. Campaigns should be publicly funded.
The corporations is especially crazy. An individual supporting the democratic process makes sense. They are the ones voting. But a business doesn’t vote.
An individual supporting with hard limits to prevent a plutocracy makes sense.
Maximum monthly donation should be tied to minimum wage for 1 day of work. Realistically, who (unless you’ve got malicious intent or you’re rich as fuck, in which case I’ll assume malicious intent), is going to donate more than 1-20th of their income to a political party. Want to donate more? Choose a charity instead.
(And a bonus) this law would probably break the gridlock on increasing minimum wage.
The very-dishonestly named “Citizens United” fucked over We the People. Badly. Now, even Democrats and Independents have to also raise obscene amounts of money to match what giant corporations almost always throw at the Republicans who promise to lower their tax rates, limit regulation, repeal environmental and antitrust restrictions, etc.
If it’s not yet fully a capitalist hellscape, it’s well on its way there…
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
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?
But won’t someone think of the poor corporations?! What about their free speech?
- Roberts, probably. I didn’t actually read citizens united.
I’m all for the corporate death penalty. Need a bailout, sure. C-suite is fired, assets seized, and corporation becomes nationalized.
Or something like that. There’s a reason no one has consulted me on the best way to accomplish this.
US government gives multi multi billionaire most of his money, billionaire turns around and gives it to Republicans. how’s your money in politics working, is it good?
trickle down
Yeah like piss, republican politicians are squealing little piss pigs, oink oink fuckers
Finally, the Republicans get money and golden showers. You really can have your cake and eat it too.
Let’s say he donated the highest amount of 6 figure (i didn’t read the article), 999,999. His net worth is at 260 billion, would be the same as me donating $2.50 in regards to my net worth, and i consider myself technically pretty okay money wise. It’s absurd how much billions are…
Article says it was $289k.
There’s other donations though:
How much money Musk ends up investing in the election remains an open question. In July, the Wall Street Journal reported that he planned to donate around $45 million a month to help Trump. Musk, however, later denied the report.
Despite the influx of cash from Musk, the NRCC raised just $9.7 million in August, compared to $22.2 million raised by its Democratic counterpart.
Still extra sickening how much billions are. Even if he actually did 45 million it would have roughly the same percentage impact to his net worth as me spending $100
Yeah… but that’s only the volume of money.
The bigger picture is that he’s allowed to use his wealth to influence elections which will of course favour himself and others of his ilk.
He’s using his money to convince people to vote against their own interests. The whole thing is cooked. Wrong on so many levels.
He can write all of this off too, can’t he? God bless America.
Sigh.
Fascism is not politely waiting to take over the U.S. and Putin is in on it.
