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Campaign Funding Makes For Bad Politics.
When major corporations are paying for the politicians campaign it creates an uneven playing field, as seen recently with Obama vs McCain (Obama having so much more money to work with) as well as when the elected politician gains office there is so often an unspoken obligation to contributors to sway lawmaking and government action in their favor despite obvious negative impact on the public overall. I think the FCC should mandate equal FREE campaign time on all major networks to resolve both issues.
 Mindcrime  30 Oct 2008 19:45
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Yeah, but trying to do something about it would be worse politics. If they're in charge of the money, they can do whatever they want with it.
 
 ur_wrong  02 Nov 2008 03:47
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It corrupts everything, but is is reality. Favours for favours.
If we ignored businessmen, the ones who would accept a little corruption would be the booming economies in the modern world. Ooops. China, India, Russia. Shame on us all. Their should be as much media and social attention on business leaders as there are politicians.
Some should be tried with treason.
It is not governments who run the world.
 
 2free  01 Nov 2008 01:24
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Agreed. I would prefer to see a set campaign fund coming from the taxpayer. This would allow for an even playing field, less razzamatazz and, most importantly, would cut corruption as you mention in the summary.
 
 Mosschops  30 Oct 2008 23:15
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Level the playing field and negate the "paybacks" by elected officials to the filthy rich who have contributed to their campaign funds!
 
 Mindcrime  30 Oct 2008 19:48
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I disagree, we shouldnt be entitled to pay for someone who we dislike or a candidate who wont get far
 
 n-stein8_  30 Oct 2008 23:18
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