Good idea or not?

I would like to see corporate money taken out of politics. This might be done by stripping corporations of their "corporate personhood". They could then be prohibited from donating to political campaigns. Contributions could be limited to $10K per person or so and all political committees could be required to report their funding. This would level the playing field and come closer to the one man, one vote ideal.

What do you think?

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Not really, I would be happy with the ethical integrity of the average lawyer turned politician. I think it would be MUCH better than the integrity of the average CEO or Board Member who buys a place at the head of the government line and leads us down his ethical path.

In my opinion there are few politicians that would dare pull some of the stunts that are regularly done by corporate leaders in the name of "God and Company".

I understand where you are coming from but like it or not corporations are what built this country and they still drive the economy. If we eliminate the corporation influence then politics will be driven by people that think corporations are purely evil and that is not true. This country can't make it on mom and pop operations. We need corporations to be sucessful so that we can all be sucessful as a nation. Most of us are employed by corporations and losing all our manufacturing processes to other countries will leave as as a service oriented country. It's hard to support a nation this large by doing each other's laundry.

You're right we need some balance amd control of corporate responsibility but we need our corporations to be sucessful and profitable. Let's not throw out our future with the corporate bath water.

Daryl

Couldn't this have unintended consequences? Namely, that if you cut out a lot of the contributions from outside sources, then the most well-funded campaign would end up being simply the wealthiest candidate, who can foot the most campaign funds personally?