Are some of people that got us into this mess trying to buy the next election?

Hedge fund managers induced Congress (and the IRS) to tax their income as capital gains, rather than regular income. It saves them a ton of money in taxes. Of course they want to keep it that way. These are guys who would rather spend a million dollars on accountants, lawyers, and campaign contributions than pay $200,000 more in taxes. As long as Congress is ruled by campaign money, guys like that will be protected.

they always have been, now they just dont have to worry about hiding it....

I think that there should be a monetary spending limit put on each candidate. For a National Candidate: X Amount for National TV Commercials X Amount for Radio X Amount for Travel X " " Newspapers X " " Mailing Fliers Signs etc. The same Idea goes for local and state Candidates If this could be honed to a fine edge, it would take a lot of Candidate "Buying" out of the picture. Something like this is done in other countries. It is unbelievable how much some folks spend to "Buy" their office.

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...Hi there, Greatdebater, Of course to answer your question. But as we all know this had gone on for a long, long time both sides take money from all over. But the Roberts Court did an immense bit of shifting the tables so that more money could go toward making sure the people who would do their bidding would get into office if they filled their pockets. A corporation is now as a result of that ruling, trying to run to have a seat in the House of Representatives. So we will have Representative Microsoft and Representative Xerox sitting as leaders of the country. It's very much a case of the money will rule. Not that it hasn't before but this is quite absurd. The Wall Street titans are boycotting the Dems as far as money goes because of the new financial regulations which really did not go far enough. But they want to have their way so that they can do anything without any rules being applied to their shenanigans. We need another Supreme Court Justice to be appointed soon, maybe two, Ginsberg is said to be ailing so maybe three. This is a travesty to say the least. Congress was supposed to do something to modify the ruling but so far nothing I have heard address the situation. Take care.

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Why are you acting as though this is something new? Did you forget that the Democrats are in their pockets as well? Take a nice complete look at their campaign contributions and I'm sure you'll see plenty going to big names on the left. Democrats like Chris Dodd and Obama are both fully bought and paid for by these guys.