The good news is dollars don't vote, people do.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
As we have always seen here in the U.S. the universal truth about elections is that people vote their pocketbook.
Voting is fundamental in our democracy. It has yielded enormous returns.
People still seem to think that they should vote themselves money. They seem to think there is stuff which they think is the government's job, when it's really the individual's job.
What people fail to appreciate is that the currency of corruption in elective office is, not money, but votes.
Money in politics is a huge issue.
As people do better, they start voting like Republicans - unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing.
I don't trade my vote for money.
People who are disenfranchised politically and people who are poor often don't vote. They often don't elect politicians, so the politicians who are supporting them are really being very charitable, because they're not going to give them billions of dollars in campaign funds.
Please, people, don't drink and vote. We'll all pay for that.
In our political system, money is power. And that means a few can have a lot more power than the rest. That's bad news for everyone else - and for our democracy itself.