Supreme Court Decision

The Supreme Court has ruled that the corporations and unions can use their immense wealth to influence the outcome of political campaigns. This will mean that they, not the common citizens, will have the greatest influence over our lawmakers. Even more laws and regulations will benefit them instead of us. We will be the ones that pay for their increased profits while we benefit very little from any of it.

There is, however, a solution to this problem. It is a Constitutional amendment taking private money out of politics.

Elections should be paid for a out of a fund from general tax revenue. The money should be distributed equally to each of the qualifying candidates. To get campaign funding a candidate should have to get the signatures of, lets say, .01% of the registered voters in the district the candidate is running for election in.

Further, it should be illegal to donate money to a lawmaker or take them to lunch at a five star restaurant or on a Caribbean cruse or to play golf in Scotland, etc. A lobbyist should only be allowed to go and talk to a lawmaker during the lawmakers regular office hours or at a town hall meeting where an ordinary citizen would be able to state his case for legislation or regulation.

Violation of this amendment should be considered bribery and punishable as a felony.