Change Congress For Just $6

For just six dollars, you can change Congress – completely change Congress for the better. Let me explain.

Today, if you want to run a campaign to get a seat in the United States House of Representatives, you must raise a minimum of $1,000,000.00. Most of us cannot conceive of doing this.

Right now a private candidate with personal wealth can, essentially, buy an election. The big bucks always win. Yet when we provide voluntary public financing and raise it to the level needed – around $6 per American – this will completely change the election landscape. Citizens will begin to believe in our democracy again.

For instance, everyone complains about “pork” yet most of it is hidden and linked to campaign contributions. By eliminating the need to raise campaign funds, we could demand transparency for earmarks which, alone, are running in excess of $100.00 per U.S. citizen. (Earmarks are those virtually untraceable spending bills that are commonly referred to as “pork” and which are too often the “informal” repayment for campaign financing contributions.)

We would also get the service for which we are paying our Congressional representatives.

We pay high salaries to Congress, provide them with many extra benefits and perks, including free world-class quality health care.

Yet they spend 30% to 50% of their time raising money for their campaigns and their political parties instead of attending to business.

On an average day, the U.S. Senate is virtually empty. The founder of Just Six Dollars quotes a Senator as saying:

“You can’t believe what it’s like. On an afternoon in the United States Senate, when you have a bill in front of a committee the next day – the next morning – and you can’t bring together the five or six sponsors of the bill with you.”

“You know where they are? They’re downtown with the lobbyists at the Hilton or the Mayflower, and say, ‘Oh, the shrimp was delicious.’ Or they’re in Detroit of Houston and taking the jet home that night.”

U.S. incombents spend a minimum of 30% of their time raising money. some say it’s as high as 50%. This costs us hundreds of billions in lost productivity and backroom deals and results in representatives voting on legislation that they have not read. It produces bad legislation and bad policy that affects every American.

We can change the way politics works in this country, for just six dollars. And this money would come from – get this – licensing and broadcast fees. No American would have to shell out $6, although I would gladly hand over six dollars right now if we could make this happen sooner.

This is the system we need in place in order to clean up politics once and for all, to cleanse it of arrogance, meanness and corruption. Watch the video, research the issue and see for yourself what it could mean for us to take back our government so we – ordinary Americans – again have a voice elected officials listen to.

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