Only residents of a particular state can donate to candidates running in that state. And for President, only citizens of this country can donate. Sure would clear up some bullshit.
Get foreign, corporate, and intetstate money out of our elections.
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No. Money is fungible...
Oh, wait... that's why we need Central Bank Cryptocurrency to track all transactions.
Oh, wait... that's why we need "The Mark"... so someone can't hack your Crypto account...
See where this goes? It's not pretty...
This is a mess of a topic and has been such for decades. The only thing that reistically could be done is eliminating foreign owned companies from contributing directly or through a fund that recieves money from a foreign owned entity.
The argument for years has been Constitutionally limiting free speech when you limit what a person or business can donate. Arguing that foreign owned entities have no Constitutional protection because they are not US businesses would be about the only way to try.
The problem then becomes US businesses that do it on behalf of a foreign owned business. Say, they get a large overpriced contract if they throw a bunch of money at each candidate.
Hard limits on amount would help a lot, but not a solution. The only real solution is severe penalties for lying, corruption, not having to disclose ALL business ties between candidate and the original source of the campaign funds.
Honest politicians are hard to come by.
We have to have a mechanism to prevent having corrupt representatives. They should not be accepting funds from foreigners, corporations or people from out of state.
No prob... My legit local entity - say a not-for-profit - that I run, that "helps people" CAN take money from foreigners. I'll purchase lots of "consulting" time from another local entity to help me accomplish my "purpose".
Funny, the folks that run the "consulting firm" that I contract with just HAPPEN to make legit donations to OUR preferred candidate! Noice!
CANNOT BE DONE...
Soros has American citizenship. He lives (at least partially) in NYC.
So he can keep his money in New York.
This is tricky because $$$ can be funneled in various ways.
Nope. Soros will gladly give a few millennials who are residents, legal and of age a zillion dollars to pump into lefties coffers.
Let's just go to no funds from anyone. At all. Every candidate gets one social media page. That's it. State your views and then shut up. ... well, I can dream, can't I? Lol
Ya if you did not have the politicians making those laws.