USAsians. 1% in tax for defense or the constitution?

[Mr Khan]

Kasz216 said:

Mr Khan said:

Kasz216 said:

Mr Khan said:

 

My solution would be to limit the length of the election season. Six months from stem to stern, with a severe limit on airtime purchasing, would do much to keep costs down.

Wouldn't that just lengthen the influence of "free" campaigning in the way of Fox News and MSNBC like things.  Or those "fake news reports" a while back.

But they would have to do so completely on their dime (well, funded by advertisers, but raising revenue entirely through traditional broadcast revenue channels), which would in turn mean that their commentary would at least have to be what the people want to see

Why?

I mean, why couldn't say... if say Exon Mobile doesn't like Barack Obama, why can't they say to MSNBC or a local news station "We are pulling our sponsership because we feel you aren't doing enough to talk about how while Unemployment is 8.1% the Particpation rate is down 5% so it's really more like 11%.

How do you stop that?  Why wouldn't the money earmarked for campaigning still get used.  Just in more nefarious ways that hurt the country more?

Then we just have to go start beating sense into businesses, as in why they're bothering to earmark rent-seeking in the first place when they could be doing more to expand their business with that kind of funding. We should not have to accept this waste as the status quo.