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Re: The economy explained in 2 min. 35 sec.
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I don't think you've thought this through. There will always be "interest groups." Eliminate the private ones, and what do you have left? "Public" financing of elections has been a liberal goal for years, but nobody seems to wonder about who will get to decide which candidates get money and which ones don't, and how much they'll get. How long do you think they're going to keep corruption out of that process?

Politicians aren't going to be much help. Most see all campaign and election rules through one prism: "What will keep me in power until I die?" To this end, there is gerrymandering, laws to keep third parties in the back of the bus, the current byzantine campaign laws, and many other things that add up to make incumbency a pretty safe place to be.

Government would run a lot more efficiently if we could just keep these damn private citizens from mucking up the process.

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