I can recall several instances where a politician running for office makes someone (usually his girlfriend, kids etc.) a consultant in his re-election campaign for some big amount. It seems like election campaigns can become another welfare system for (a different) do-nothing segment for our population. The last thing we want is the tax-payers to pay for it. ( Who is going to watch over how that money is spent?)

[quote=IForget]I think it’s time for complete public financing of national elections and state-wide elections. Corporations and the elite are buying our representatives for relatively little cost. Give a Senator a million and get back a billion. The million goes to the Senator and the billion comes from the taxpayers and goes to the donor. We can’t allow this practice to continue and expect to persist as a nation.

My idea is to let candidates choose either to be .[/quote]