A Good Argument For Clean Money Clean Elections
This, from a friend of mine, is one of the best reasons I’ve seen for why we need Clean Money Clean Elections.  It came in response to an objection that publicly financed elections would mean that your tax dollars are supporting someone who’s views you don’t agree with.
We already finance politicians we don’t agree with. We pay their salaries, benefits, pensions and their staffs. And we do this because our nation considers elected representatives a public good. Just like roads, and parks and schools, we acknowledge that our society needs elected representatives and that we can’t leave it up to the market to sponsor the representatives. It would be unacceptable for a private business to pay the salary and staff of politician. Why does it make more sense to let them pay for their campaigns?
Indeed. Especially when campaigns frequently cost much more money than our electeds’ salaries. The voters should be the ones saying “Who’s your daddy?” to our politicians, not wealthy special interests.
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