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talkpoliticsAbsurd idea for political spending limit:
The amount of money spent on a campaign cannot be more money than will be earned by the candidate in his or her term of tenure. If a position pays 100,000 a year, and is for 2 years, the campaign cannot spend over 200,000. If it's for president, and the presidency pays 400,000 a year, and is for 4 years, the campaign cannot spend over 1.6 million. And so forth for all govt positions.
Never happen, but interesting way to slice the pie. The idea came up watching Jesse Ventura. He says he only raised 300-something thousands in his campaign but earned 480,000(120K/year) in his tenure. So he earned more than he spent to get the job. (I do not believe he meant to imply it was all his money. To be clear, I'd wager that the 300-something thousand dollars he spent were not all his own and he wasn't saying it was.)
It is an interesting point. Spending a million dollars (or more) to get a job that earns you half-million in income? Something odd about that. (To my knowledge, congressional campaigns are like that. They're position is shorter, so they spend a million to earn 300K?)
Now here's a poll. I know some folks will reject this cause freedom of speech, money is speech, but for those of us who think that a limit of money in politics is a good thing to search for (and not an evil to fight against) the question is how or where do we draw the line. What do y'all think about this drawing of the line?
[Poll #1937310]
The amount of money spent on a campaign cannot be more money than will be earned by the candidate in his or her term of tenure. If a position pays 100,000 a year, and is for 2 years, the campaign cannot spend over 200,000. If it's for president, and the presidency pays 400,000 a year, and is for 4 years, the campaign cannot spend over 1.6 million. And so forth for all govt positions.
Never happen, but interesting way to slice the pie. The idea came up watching Jesse Ventura. He says he only raised 300-something thousands in his campaign but earned 480,000(120K/year) in his tenure. So he earned more than he spent to get the job. (I do not believe he meant to imply it was all his money. To be clear, I'd wager that the 300-something thousand dollars he spent were not all his own and he wasn't saying it was.)
It is an interesting point. Spending a million dollars (or more) to get a job that earns you half-million in income? Something odd about that. (To my knowledge, congressional campaigns are like that. They're position is shorter, so they spend a million to earn 300K?)
Now here's a poll. I know some folks will reject this cause freedom of speech, money is speech, but for those of us who think that a limit of money in politics is a good thing to search for (and not an evil to fight against) the question is how or where do we draw the line. What do y'all think about this drawing of the line?
[Poll #1937310]
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Date: 6/10/13 14:54 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 6/10/13 16:36 (UTC)Don't get me wrong, I'm all for getting money out of politics. But placing arbitrary limits to money in politics doesn't fundamentally address the problem. Forcing full disclosure and transparency onto political campaigns seems a more adequate measure to me. Fine, let them spend huge amounts of money on campaigning. But make the origin of every dollar be known to the public. Then the public will be able to take their informed decisions.
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Date: 6/10/13 19:15 (UTC)that day may not be today
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Date: 6/10/13 19:46 (UTC)Note how the "dark side" is as Yoda said it was--quicker, easier. (less steps)
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Date: 6/10/13 19:19 (UTC)