[JimRed]

I've said it before and I'll say it again...any individual, group or company should be able to give any contribution they choose to any party or candidate they choose. "But", you say, "that leads to selling influence", and you are correct.

Therefore, all donors must remain anonymous. Politicians cannot sell themselves when they do not know who the buyer is. If Soros wants to support socialists with millions, that's his business. If the unions want to back commies, fine. They won't know who to pay off if they get elected!

This will insure that donors are giving because they support the party or candidate's agenda or positions rather than looking for a payoff down the road.

The IRS can receive and distribute the donations, so we won't need a new beaurocracy to do it. They'll be a lot less busy once we take firm control of the senate and institute REAL tax reform.

OK, now; where am I going wrong?

[Valin]

Isn't there something in the Bill of Rights about petitioning congress for redress of grievances? :-)

Not that something written by a bunch of dead whitemen means anything. I mean what did they know.

[Smile-n-Win]

I've said it before and I'll say it again...any individual, group or company should be able to give any contribution they choose to any party or candidate they choose. "But", you say, "that leads to selling influence", and you are correct.

It shouldn't ... as we discussed on Day 7, the buying and selling of influence wouldn't be a problem if the government were made to stick to its constitutional duty of protecting citizens' rights. If the government has no power to redistribute income or to impose regulations on us etc., then there is nothing a politician can sell to anyone.

As soon as the government is allowed to redistribute income, people will begin to buy their share of redistributed income from politicians. As sooon as the government is allowed to regulate private industry, compaines will be bidding to get the regulations they like passed. And as soon as politics becomes a business where you can obtain power for free and sell it, it will attract the nation's most corrupt people like a magnet.

But if the government is there to do what the Declaration of Independence says it is there to do, the only type of person attracted to politics will be the honest, principled, freedom-loving leaders such as the first President of the United States was.