Public Funding for Political Campaigns
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For many people today, people who can be heard on talk shows across the nation, people who speak on television and campaign for change, people who refuse to vote or have anything to do with the political process--for these people and others, political corruption is such a fact of life that they cannot separate the idea of government and government officials from corrupt practices. One reason for this perception is the knowledge that politics is expensive and that running for office requires vast amounts of money, and people want to know what those giving large campaign contributions want for their money. Public funding is an alternative to the current system, and it would be enhanced further by caps on campaign spending. The Supreme Court has ruled that donating money to political parties or candidates is a form of free speech, as Senator Lott notes, but this does not mean the practice cannot be better controlled--even speech is not completely unfettered from legal restrictions. For that matter, while donations may be free speech, how candidates spend those donations may not be. We place all sorts of restrictions on elections, from who can run to who can vote. We allow the political parties to make a number of decisions as to who is on the ballot and how the candidate is actually selected in different states and finally on a national basis at a convention. We already place all manner of restrictions on who can contribute money to a campaign, how much they can contrib
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Approximate Word count = 981
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page)
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