g5000
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Has any disease ever been cured by treating the symptoms?So would you agree that the more power we give to our federal politicians over our lives, the more money will flow to them to capture that power?
I can almost agree , but let me rephrase your statement.
As government and corporations become more powerfull they will seek of ways to assert their position of power and increase their cash flow.
Hence , measures mut be taken to ensure this increase of power does not turn into a cycle of continued negotiations in which the general population becomes the looser and corporations and the government become the winners.
By trying to control the amount of money which flows toward power, you are addressing the symptom (campaign cash) instead of the disease (the growth of federal power).
Diminish the government's power over our lives, and you instantaneously take away the incentive for money to capture that power over our lives .
Instead, we have been increasing government power. We have recently handed over a great deal of power over our health care to the government. What do you think will happen with respect to the amount of money that is going to be spent trying to capture those new powers?
By focusing on the symptoms, you have missed that the disease is progressing.
It is not a coincidence that campaign cash has been increasing as government power increases.
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