I don't think politicians should be allowed to take money for their campaigns from outside interests.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I do not believe wealthy candidates should spend vast resources in their own campaigns.
The reality is that asking the public to fund political campaigns accomplishes nothing. Candidates continue to seek interest-group support through other channels, both financial and in-kind, and corruption problems abound.
If candidates spend money on ads and other political speech and their opponents are rewarded with government handouts to attack them, that chills speech and is unconstitutional. Non-participating candidates certainly don't volunteer to allow their opponents to receive taxpayer subsidies to bash them.
Well I think money has been going into political campaigns for a very long time.
People have their constitutional right to contribute to a campaign and if they have discretionary money that they want to contribute to a candidate, whether a Republican or a Democrat, they should be able to do so.
Unfortunately, money in politics is an insidious thing - and a loophole in our campaign finance system was taken advantage of with money going to existing or new 527 groups with the sole purpose of influencing the election.
I think we have to look at the whole way campaigns are financed. The No. 1 problem is PAC and special-interest money.
Politicians shouldn't spend most of their time in office trying to get reelected.
Money has always been in politics. And I'm not sure you'd want money to be completely out of politics.
You never talk about what you want when giving money. I don't pay attention to what other people think... There shouldn't be restrictions of any kind on political contributions.