Wednesday, September 06, 2006

Campaign Finance Reform

Here are my ideas on campaign finance reform:
1) Abolish the McCain-Feingold Campaign Finance Bill. This bill has some serious constitutional issues and just redistributes the campaign money around. It did not really get the money out of the campaigns.
2) Fine (say $10,000) any politician who deliberately lies about himself in a campaign advertisement. If he lies about an opponent, the opponent should be able to sue him. Viewers put up with campaign advertisements like they put with commercial advertisements. But if a politician deliberately misrepresents himself or his opponents that is really what gets people mad, because the voters are not getting helpful information they can use. Good thing there is web sites like Fact Check.org to help give voters information.
3) Have full disclosure on who is giving money to the politicians during their campaign. This will help determining where the politician stands on different issues.
4) Limit the amount of campaign contributions to $5. That way everyone has equal monetary influence with everyone else and also tell the voters how much support a politician has.

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