“Three billion dollars have been spent on the 2000 presidential and congressional races, making this the most expensive election in history. People gripe and complain, but refuse to face the true nature of the problem. The problem is not that people are spending too much money to get their friends elected. The problem is the welfare state and the regulated society. Since the 1930s, the primary purpose of the U.S. government has been to seize money from one group of people (the taxpayers) in order to give it to another group of people (welfare recipients) and to regulate people’s peaceful activities, primarily through various domestic wars. It stands to reason that people are going to fight to avoid being in the taxpaying and regulated group and to get into the welfare-recipient and unregulated group. The answer is not to restrict people’s ability to donate unlimited amounts of their own money to political candidates, and it’s also not to tax people in order to have public funds subsidize political campaigns. The solution is to constitutionally prohibit government officials from taxing one person for the purpose of giving the money to another person and constitutionally prohibit governmental regulation of peaceful activity. Once government no longer has the powers to give people goodies and to do bad things to peaceful people, no one will care who’s elected.”
CAPSULE COMMENTARY: “Stop Transfer Payments, Not Political Spending”
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