Mr Khan said:
-Public funding for elections (funded by a tax that would itself be lower than the amount of money large companies probably waste on rent-seeking) |
Except that really isn't the case.
Publically funded elections actually increase corruption because the funding guidelines are generally so strict so as only the main establishment candidates of the two parties can every fufill the requirements.
In primaries, those shocking outsider non-comformists never get their chance to speak... or you allow private funding of primaries, and then you've solved nothing.
With no one but the establishment able to get into power, it's easier then ever to accept "hard" bribes and get away with it and there are no reprecussions as our choices become even more divided in the future then they are now.
Instead of Obama or Romney, you have Rush Limbaugh vs Keith Olberman.
