• Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
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    10 days ago

    At give or take 330 million Americans, that’d be about 3 billion dollars, give or take.

    A single billionaire could donate double that and just buy the elections

    Currently this is perfectly legal in the US, with great thanks to the Republican party which had been sabotaging the country for the past 5 decades.

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      10 days ago

      Yup - so anyone donating more than $10 a year gets 10 years in prison. Also your £10 is 100% tax deductible, if you don’t earn enough to pay any tax then you get an extra $10 in state benefit if you donate it to someone running for office.

      Wouldn’t it be nice for campaign funds to be used for shoe leather, emails and flyers, rather than attack ads on every website and TV station.

      at some point you have to realise that the political system is corrupt and money needs to be removed, or you’re only doing what about 100 people want, instead of the 330 million.