Campaign Finance Reform Is Going Backwards
Via Gawker
If America ever wants to shed our cynical, accurate view of our political system being solely a game for the rich, we must—must!—reform the way we finance political campaigns.
This week, Congress is determined to take a big step in the wrong direction. One element contained in a massive spending bill that Congress is debating this week: a new law that “would increase the amount individuals could donate to national parties tenfold,” by not only raising the limits on individual giving to political parties, but also allowing individuals to give to various funding committees dedicated to specific purposes, like funding political conventions. The Washington Post calculates that “Under the language in the bill, a couple could give as much as $3.1 million to a party’s various national committees in one election cycle.”
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