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11-15-2004, 05:08 PM
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Campaign Donation Idea
I ran across this interesting idea to make campaign contributions less corrupting.
The idea is to continue to force full disclosure of contributors, but also allow anonymous refunds. That way, people still get to see who is trying to influence politicians but, unless nobody withdraws their donation, there's no way for the politician to tell whether they followed through. I'm sure there are still plaenty of problems with it, but it's an interesting idea.
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11-16-2004, 10:36 AM
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UNDER CONDITIONAL MITIGATION
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Wouldn't it be easier to just have mandatory escrow accounts for campaign contributions, so the donors were completely anonymous?
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11-16-2004, 11:15 AM
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I think this line's mostly filler.
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There is something to be said for publically available donation lists. I'm not completely sure that the something is good, but I tend to think it is.
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11-16-2004, 09:51 PM
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*shameless....so stop trying so hard....*-me
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I would just like to have not been ripped off by the Dems...They shorted my paycheck. I don't care where the money came from anymore, I want to know where it went!!!!
 Unbelievable.
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11-18-2004, 12:30 AM
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I don't know that there is a way to make this workable but ...
Contributions should go into a general pool, not earmarked for any particular candidate or party. Funds would be disbursed from this pool according to some strange and arcane mathematical formulae, similar to the concept elaborated by Douglas Adams called "Bistromath."
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11-18-2004, 01:09 AM
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11-25-2004, 08:05 PM
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I went to the HBO website today and found this in the "Deadwood" memorable quotes section.
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