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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We need serious campaign finance reform.

If we’re serious about fixing American politics, the solution isn’t complicated, it’s affordability, transparency, and hard caps that apply to everyone. Here’s the model:

1. Cap all political donations at $25 per candidate, per cycle.  (To be indexed to median income)  
Not $3,300. Not $500.
Twenty‑five bucks: an amount the average American can actually afford.
If a candidate can’t build a movement on small donors, they shouldn’t be buying one with big ones.

2. Cap total political giving at $100 per person per cycle.  
No more donor‑class loopholes where the billionaire class is dominating our politics.
Everyone gets the same $100 political voice, period.

3. Ban SuperPACs and dark‑money groups outright.  
No 501(c)(4) “social welfare” fronts.
No shell LLCs.
No billionaire‑funded SuperPACs pretending to be “independent.”
If you want to influence elections, you do it with your own name and your own $25.

4. Allow one issue‑PAC donation per person, capped at $25.  
People should still be able to support a cause, but not bankroll an entire ecosystem of influence groups.

5. Real‑time disclosure and felony‑level enforcement.  
Every dollar reported within 24 hours.
No more $10 million fines that campaigns treat as rounding errors.
Intentional violations = criminal charges.
If money is power, then cheating with money is corruption.

Why this works and why it is needed:
It restores political equality by making every citizen’s donation worth the same.

It eliminates the donor class without eliminating free speech.

It shuts down dark‑money pipelines that have distorted elections for decades.

It forces candidates to campaign for people, not for checkbooks.

This is the simplest, fairest, and most enforceable way to rebuild trust in the system, and it’s built around a number every American can actually afford.[/quote]
This all sounds great until the Supreme Court strikes it down.[/quote]
It won't even get that far because the legislators who could implement your solution were mostly elected with dark money.[/quote]

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